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Postcards for Mia. The Adult’s Imagination of the Child’s & Vice Versa

06 December 2022, 4:30 pm–6:30 pm

A child-like watercolour drawing by Michael Taussig, depicting a wild boar. Cat shaped it enters the image from the left. Blue body, red eyes. three vertical green lines give a sense of high grass in the background.

Anthropologist Michael Taussig will present postcards he has created of his travels

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Charles Stewart

Location

IAS Common Ground
G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL
London
WC1E 6BT

So what happens when a sorta anthropologist becomes a sketchy visual artist making postcards of his travels for his granddaughter between the ages of four to seven, postcards that resonate with those he made for his books starting in 1987? What gives with the AICI and this urge to draw alongside writing?

Class of 1933 Professor Emeritus at Columbia University Michael Taussig has published several books including The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980); The Magic of the State (1997); Law in a Lawless Land (2003); My Cocaine Museum (2004); I Swear I Saw This (2012); and Mastery of Non-Mastery (2020).