Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis
Tarek Elhaik was a Moderator at the Artist & Curator Silvia Gruner Lecture at the Arts Research Center on February 20, 2019. Tarek Elhaik's work is based on participant observation in several domains of practice related to contemporary art and experimental media worlds, with a special interest in the different modes of curatorial practice that animate those worlds. The aim of his fieldwork-based inquiries is both to problematize the mediatory role and increasing influence of curatorial practice in contemporary life and to evaluate the ethical, political...