Amanda Ravetz studied Fine Art at the Central School of Art and Design, and anthropology with visual media at the University of Manchester, completing her doctorate in 2001. Her doctoral research dealt with issues of place-making, identity and vision in the UK. In 2001 Amanda joined the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester where she taught on the MA in Visual Anthropology.
In 2004 Amanda joined the research Institute MIRIAD at Manchester Metropolitan University to pursue research into "Contemporary Convergence of Aesthetics and Ethnography' having been awarded an AHRC Fellowship. During the first year of the award she carried out fieldwork with MFA students, working alongside them on the studio floor.
Her film 'The Bracewells' was shown at Goettingen International Film Festival and at the AAA Film Meeting, Washington, US in 2002. Publications include an edited volume Visualizing Anthropology: Experiments in Image Based Practice, Bristol: Intellect Books, 2005 (co-edited with Anna Grimshaw), and essays 'A weight of meaninglessness about which there is nothing insignificant': abjection and knowing in an art school and on a housing estate'. In Harris, M. (eds.) Ways of Knowing, Berghahn, Oxford, 2007 and 'From documenting culture to experimenting with cultural phenomena: using fine art pedagogies with visual anthropology students'. In Tim Ingold and Elizabeth Hallam (eds.) Creativity and Cultural Improvisation, ASA Monographs Series, 2007.
www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/profile/aravetz
Other participants
Liesbeth Bik, Bryony Bond, Mary Bouquet, David Chapman, Anna Grimshaw, Ade Hunter, Rosalind Nashashibi, Daniel Peltz, Paul Rooney, Erika Tan, Lucien Taylor, Jos van der Pol, Soumhya Venkatesan, Chris Wright and Lesley Young
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