IMPURE. Journal of Art and Anthropology

IMPURE is a journal that intercepts and disseminates research bridging art and anthropology. It promotes the potential of an artistic approach to anthropology, showcasing new techniques, methods, and concepts across various contexts. The editorial board and contributors include artists, anthropologists, ethnographers, curators, and art historians.

Since the end of last century, the disciplines of art and anthropology have respectively converged towards an “ethnographic turn” and an “artistic turn”. IMPURE offers a space of expression and dialogue between art and anthropology while exploring their liminal spaces, where art acts at various degrees and levels of collaborative ethnography in social space – art in the public space, site-specific art, community art, relational practices – and anthropology uses the languages of contemporary art to produce its research and its representations.

IMPURE will be a meeting space between community, territory, social instances and artistic research, and a space for reflection on the capacity of art and anthropology to collaborate within art-anthropological projects. Therefore, IMPURE gathers a group of multidisciplinary researchers from the field of visual arts, of performing arts, of anthropology and visual ethnography, considering contamination and hybridization as potential tools to explore contemporaneity on a political and artistic level.