Abstract
The shifting axis of art from a medium practice towards a discourse specific one marks the expansion of the field of art towards culture (Foster 1996, 199) and consequently the emerging dialogues with disciplines that study culture. In 1996, art critic Hal Foster defined the shifting position of the art within the expanded field of art as turn, which primarily manifested itself in the peculiar appropriations of ethnographic methods and tropes by artists. Meanwhile, the practitioners of ethnography seem to be willing to open their disciplinary boundaries to the undisciplined means artistic practices deal with cultural issues (see Marcus 1995, 2008; Schneider and Wright, 2006, 2010). In this paper I explore the dialogue between these distinctive practices of inquiry by teasing out the parallel trajectories as well as the incommensurable differences that stand as resistance points between the practices of art and ethnography, in order to investigate the possibility of a new kind of inquiry that could emerge at this juncture.
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