Art and Archaeology

Ian Alden Russell is a curator, designer, and academic based in Istanbul, Turkey. He is an assistant professor of contemporary art and cultural heritage in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Koç University. Previous to this, he was Curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, and he continues to curate exhibitions of contemporary art by international as well as emerging artists. With an academic background in history, archaeology, and heritage studies, his research engages with artists in galleries, museums, heritage sites, and public spaces to address issues around the constitution of cultural heritage. He is currently co-editing a volume with Michael Shanks (Stanford) and Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth) for Routledge exploring these themes. His previous edited volumes include Images, Representations, and Heritage (Springer: 2006) and Unquiet Pasts (Ashgate: 2010).Andrew Cochrane is Project Curator at the British Museum. He has excavated with the Museum of London Archaeology, was a World Art Fellow at the University of East Anglia, and has been a Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. In 2008, he developed the WAC ‘art and archaeology’ exhibitions and conference with Ian Russell. He has been Project Curator for: The Power of Dogu exhibition (British Museum: 2009), the unearthed exhibition (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: 2010), and the Ice Age Art exhibition (British Museum: 2013). In recent years, Andrew has greatly enjoyed collaborating with Doug Bailey, Jill Cook, Andy Jones and Simon Kaner.

"The Editors have compiled a volume of 15 papers that aim to identify the commonalities between art and archaeology, demonstrate the ways that archaeologists can learn from the practice of visual arts and provide successful examples of these synergies. ... The case studies described demonstrate that contemporary arts practices have created new and enriched ways of perceiving material remains and have provided new interpretive models that archaeologists can use to explain the past." (June Ross, Australian Archaeology, Vol. 80, June, 2015)

• Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Ian Alden Russell; Andrew Cochrane.- Part I. Exploration and Experimentation.- 2. Colin Renfrew: A conversation.- 3. The cave and the mind: Towards a sculptural and experimental approach to Upper Palaeolithic art Andrew Meirion Jones, University of Southampton.- 4. Joining Forces: Neuroaesthetics, contemporary visual art and archaeological interpretation of the past Liliana Janick, University of Cambridge.- 5. Interface I: Day of the Figurines IRAC.- Part II. Curation and Exhibition.- 6. Art and Archaeology: The Abhar agus Meon exhibition series Ian Alden Russell, Brown University.- 7. Art and Kilmainham Gaol: Negotiating art's critical intervention in the heritage site, Pat Cooke, University College Dublin.- 8. Another proof of the preceding theory: Film, materialities and Stonehenge Helen Wickstead, Kingston University, London.- 9. Interface II: Home: An installation for living in Christine Finn, Independent Scholar.- Part III. Application and Exchange.- 10. Dust and debit age: An archaeology of Francis Bacon's studio Blaze O'Connor, University College Dublin.- 11. Creating contexts: Between the archaeological site and art gallery Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands.- 12. Artists connecting archaeologists: Encountering the third kind Michael Jasmin, Artist and Independent Scholar.- 13. Interface III: Digital Dwelling at Skara Brae Alice Watterson, Glasgow School of the Arts Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee Aaron Watson, www.monumental.uk.com.- Part IV. Archaeology after Art.- 14. Pearson|Shanks - theatre/archaeology - return and prospect Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University Michael Shanks, Stanford University.- 15. Art // Archaeology // Art: Letting-go beyond Doug Bailey, San Francisco State University.