Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Clarke is an Aberdeen based anthropologist, artist, and curator. An Associate Professor at Gray’s School of Art, her interdisciplinary background spans art, anthropology, and artistic research, with degrees from Glasgow, Goldsmiths, Aberdeen, and Sint Lucas School of Art, Antwerp. Jen’s art practice currently involves transmodal forms, montaging words and images across languages, producing performative moving image works and installations. Areas of specialisation in her artistic research include the integration of visual art and social practices as responses to (and interventions in) environmental politics and related academic knowledge production, emphasising interdisciplinarity through collaborative and speculative approaches. She also collaborates on and leads transnational socially engaged art projects in the UK and Japan, where, in 2022, she held a Visiting Professorial Research Fellowship, to develop her project Feminist Hospitalities. Jen co-convened ANTART, the European Association of Social Anthropologists ‘Anthropology and the Arts’ Network (2020 – 22) and has been Chair of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) since 2018.
Maxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science, currently a research associate at the ExC "Matters of Activity" (HU Berlin). He is co-founder of the Speculative Realities Lab at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. He trained in General Ethnology in Paris Nanterre and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Theatre Studies from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. His latest ethnographic project explores navigational practices in neurosurgery, using drawing as a field method. His recent monograph, Golden Pudel-Ethnographie, presents an ethnographic theory of art based on the study of an alternative music venue in Hamburg (transcript, 2024). He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances, 2018), on performance art, on Berlin, on brains and on ethnographic training. You can see more of his graphic fieldwork and curatorial experiments on his blog at maximelecalve.com.
Francisca José is a graphic designer that loves books and has a growing interest in augmented reality and the possibility of enhancing analogue formats through digital media. In the last decade she has been designing books and working with contemporary art galleries, museums and art collectives in the production of content for communication, catalogs and editorial material to support exhibitions and events.
Gil Rodrigues is a designer with a love for branding, editorial, and type design. Graduated in Visual Design from the University of Brasília (UnB). He was part of the Type Design Master Class at Leipzig’s Faculty of Fine-Arts as a guest student/DAAD scholarship holder. He holds a Masters in Editorial Design and Typography from the Faculty of Fine-Arts at the University of Lisbon (FBAUL). Aside from commercial design work, his research interests include social sciences, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Clarke is an Aberdeen based anthropologist, artist, and curator. An Associate Professor at Gray’s School of Art, her interdisciplinary background spans art, anthropology, and artistic research, with degrees from Glasgow, Goldsmiths, Aberdeen, and Sint Lucas School of Art, Antwerp. Jen’s art practice currently involves transmodal forms, montaging words and images across languages, producing performative moving image works and installations. Areas of specialisation in her artistic research include the integration of visual art and social practices as responses to (and interventions in) environmental politics and related academic knowledge production, emphasising interdisciplinarity through collaborative and speculative approaches. She also collaborates on and leads transnational socially engaged art projects in the UK and Japan, where, in 2022, she held a Visiting Professorial Research Fellowship, to develop her project Feminist Hospitalities. Jen co-convened ANTART, the European Association of Social Anthropologists ‘Anthropology and the Arts’ Network (2020 – 22) and has been Chair of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) since 2018.
Maxime Le Calvé is an anthropologist of art and science, currently a research associate at the ExC "Matters of Activity" (HU Berlin). He is co-founder of the Speculative Realities Lab at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. He trained in General Ethnology in Paris Nanterre and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Theatre Studies from EHESS Paris and FU Berlin. His latest ethnographic project explores navigational practices in neurosurgery, using drawing as a field method. His recent monograph, Golden Pudel-Ethnographie, presents an ethnographic theory of art based on the study of an alternative music venue in Hamburg (transcript, 2024). He has published on the ethnographic study of atmospheres (Exercices d’ambiances, 2018), on performance art, on Berlin, on brains and on ethnographic training. You can see more of his graphic fieldwork and curatorial experiments on his blog at maximelecalve.com.
Francisca José is a graphic designer that loves books and has a growing interest in augmented reality and the possibility of enhancing analogue formats through digital media. In the last decade she has been designing books and working with contemporary art galleries, museums and art collectives in the production of content for communication, catalogs and editorial material to support exhibitions and events.
Gil Rodrigues is a designer with a love for branding, editorial, and type design. Graduated in Visual Design from the University of Brasília (UnB). He was part of the Type Design Master Class at Leipzig’s Faculty of Fine-Arts as a guest student/DAAD scholarship holder. He holds a Masters in Editorial Design and Typography from the Faculty of Fine-Arts at the University of Lisbon (FBAUL). Aside from commercial design work, his research interests include social sciences, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.
