ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING’s scientific contributions

... Unlike archaeological looking, where the objective is to name the unknown and comprehend the new universe progressively unveiled by various means, here, in the exhibition space, flotation machine did not impose goals, was not limited to producing knowledge and did not shape interpretation. Flotation process was a metaphor of excavation as an ethical and ontological act, of dis-uniting, breaking the bonds, dissolution, where what surfaces is contingent on relationships and care, and upon collaboration across differences (Povinelli 2012;Tsing 2015). It was a realm of looking, in which the geography of lookinginterpretations, reflections, imaginations -was individual and fluid, configured by the window, water, the soil and the looker. ...

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When is archaeology? Flotation machine in an art exhibition and the (un)sievable realm of possibilities