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                Dear colleagues,
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<br>Please find below the CFP for the 2nd Colleex workshop.
<br>
<br>Best,
<br>Organizing committee
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<br>The use•ful•less•ness of the experiment
<br>Anthropology and the assembly of the unexpected
<br>
<br>4–6 July 2019, Cieszyn, Poland
<br>Second #Colleex Workshop
<br>EASA network #Colleex - Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
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<br>Submissions. The workshop is open and welcomes to two types of participation:
<br>conventional papers, and open formats and interventions. If interested, please
<br>send us a 250-words abstract with your proposal in the links provided. More
<br>information on submissions below
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<br>More information:
<br>https://colleex.wordpress.com/2nd-colleex-workshop-2019-cieszyn-poland/
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<br>Experiments are singular events producing the unexpected: Throwing us
<br>questions we didn’t have, changing our notions of values, and creating the
<br>conditions of their own appreciation. From experimental cultures in natural
<br>sciences to the craft of diverse materials assembled together in artful
<br>practices, experiments always entail an assembly: of people, infrastructures,
<br>materials and techniques. In this second workshop of the Colleex network we
<br>would like to reflect on the ways anthropology arranges its experiments–in
<br>fieldwork, representations, or public engagements–and we would like to
<br>attend closely to the way these experiments mirror those performed in art
<br>practices: What gatherings do our anthropological experiments require? What
<br>values do they bring forth?
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<br>From practical experiments that test what we already know to experiments
<br>carried out for the sake of them, experiments often challenge notions of
<br>value–this goes also for the value of the experiment itself. A situation
<br>that is not unusual in the experiments of artists and anthropologists: Working
<br>with their counterparts in the field and engaging in multiple collaborations,
<br>they interfere in coded hierarchies of value and subvert obvious notions of
<br>need in shared experimental exercises. Hence, we seek to deepen our
<br>reflections on the value of ethnographic experimentation in a dialogue between
<br>art and anthropology, particularly foregrounding the use•ful•less•ness
<br>of experimentation: that is, the different modes of appreciating their
<br>usefulness, uselessness or, even, their ‘usefullessness’. We would like to
<br>ask: What new learnings might these dialogues open up? How to appreciate what
<br>they bring forth?
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<br>In this meeting in Cieszyn (Poland) we foreground how we could relearn our
<br>ways of assembling experiments, drawing from a wide variety of artful
<br>practices. The Colleex network invites anthropologists who have engaged in
<br>art-related experiments, and anthropologically-inclined artful
<br>practitioners–such as artists, curators, designers, architects and many
<br>others–to share with us the value of our shared experiments. Not limited to
<br>these groups, however, the event is open to anyone interested in the
<br>workshop’s theme of exploring the use•ful•less•ness of the experiment
<br>or the network’s general topic of ethnographic experimentation.
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<br>Picking up from our first shared encounter in Lisbon, we want to shift from
<br>the conventional workshop and invite any kind of experimental formats, actions
<br>and methodologies: interventions, re-enactments, performances, videos, films,
<br>installations or mini-exhibitions, and any other format that would provide
<br>common room to think while experimenting together. Besides traditional
<br>paper-giving we welcome any of these explorations on the way we assemble for
<br>learning together.
<br>
<br>Submissions
<br>The workshop is open and welcomes to two types of participation: conventional
<br>papers, and open formats and interventions. If interested, please send us a
<br>250-words abstract with your proposal in the links provided. More information
<br>on submissions below
<br>
<br>1. Papers. Reflections and nuanced meditations on the value of ethnographic
<br>experimentation and its use•ful•less•ness, and more general discussion
<br>of ethnographic experimentation.
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<br>Paper submission: https://tinyurl.com/ycpoygb8 
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<br>2. Open formats and interventions. Hands-on experiments to try out or develop
<br>for the purposes of discussion and provocation, which take place at the
<br>workshop venue. We invite a wide variety of actions and interventions
<br>displaying an experimental concern with the value and usefulless of
<br>ethnographic experimentation: interventions, re-enactments, performances,
<br>videos, films, installations or mini-exhibitions, and any other forms of
<br>engaging with collected materials that would provide common room/generative
<br>space to think while experimenting together. We welcome proposals from both
<br>individuals and groups. Please state in your proposal the following: material
<br>needs, spatial requirements, time and number of participants. More information
<br>on the Colleex open formats:
<br>https://colleex.wordpress.com/colleex-open-formats/
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<br>The network has a very limited funding from EASA that could be used for these
<br>formats if required. Please state that in your proposal and the estimated
<br>funding needed.
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<br>Open format submission: https://tinyurl.com/y98vcssd
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<br>Dates
<br>March 11: Submission deadline.
<br>March 25 (approx.): Communication of acceptance.
<br>July 4-6: Workshop in Cieszyn.
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<br>Contact: colleexnetwork@gmail.com 
<br>More information:
<br>https://colleex.wordpress.com/2nd-colleex-workshop-2019-cieszyn-poland/
<br>
<br>Overview of the first Colleex workshop: https://tinyurl.com/y8m6pfky
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<br>Organization
<br>Political Critique (Cieszyn), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural
<br>Anthropology, University of Silesia (Cieszyn), Institute of Ethnology and
<br>Cultural Anthropology (University of Warsaw). Supported by EASA
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<br>Organizing committee. Eeva Berglund (Aalto University, Finland), Adolfo
<br>Estalella (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Tomasz Rakowski
<br>(University of Warsaw, Poland), Anna Lisa Ramella (University of Siegen,
<br>Germany), Eva Rossal (Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, Poland), Tomás Sánchez
<br>Criado (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany).
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<br>Local committee. Anna Pluta, Joanna Wowrzeczka, and Natalia Kałuża
<br>/Political Critique (Cieszyn)
<br>Grzegorz Studnicki /Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,
<br>University of Silesia (Cieszyn)
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<br>#Colleex | Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation. An EASA network.
<br>https://colleex.wordpress.com/ 
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