AAA & VRC
I have had the great pleasure of presenting parts of my work at SVA’s Visual Research Conference and AAA’a annual meeting last week. The meeting took place in Toronto, Canada, and it was truly a blast of inspiration. I met with loads of interesting people; was amazed by quite some creative ethnographic endeavors of theirs and felt happy that those of mine could act a source of inspiration for these fellow anthropologists. Like my research, my presentations of it was interactively engaged. While I made an installation that explored the taste of place and the values incorporated in the certification of DOP Collina di Brindisi at VRC, I made an oral presentation with motioned elements about the droned features of my research at the annual meeting of AAA. For the latter, I also made a comparative poster-presentation dealing with the transitions of traditions that become made for the love and the legacy of olive culture in southern Puglia. Taken together, both conferences and all the encounters experienced during them were exactly what I needed to keep doing anthropology such as I find utmost important and intriguing. Namely, as explicitly sensuous in its undertaking, curiously engaged in its crafting, and no less critically explored in feature.
