Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2013.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor (born January 10, 1966 in Liverpool ) is a British anthropologist and video artist .

life and work

Lucien Castaing-Taylor studied at the University of Southern California with Timothy Asch (1932–1994) and obtained a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley . There he worked as a university lecturer. He then taught at the University of Colorado Boulder and was appointed professor at Harvard University in 2003 . There he heads the Sensory Ethnography Lab .

Castaing-Taylor's work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum . They were exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia (2010, 2017), documenta 14 , Tate Gallery , Barbican Center , Center Georges-Pompidou , Whitney Museum of American Art , MoMA PS1 , Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MAMM Medellín, Whitechapel Art Gallery , Institute of Contemporary Arts , Berliner Kunsthalle , Shanghai Biennale (2014), and Aichi Triennale (2017).

Filmography (selection)

• 1992: In and Out of Africa (with Ilisa Barbash)
• 1997: Made in USA
• 2009: Sweetgrass (with Ilisa Barbash)
• 2010: The High Trail
• 2012: Leviathan (with Véréna Paravel )
• 2014: Still Life / Nature Morte
• 2015: Ah Humanity! (with Véréna Paravel )
• 2017: Somniloquies (with Véréna Paravel )
• 2017: Commensal
• 2018: Caniba (with Véréna Paravel )

Fonts

• Lucien Taylor (Ed.): Visualizing Theory. 1994, ISBN 0-415-90843-4 .
• Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor: Cross-Cultural Filmmaking. A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. 1997, ISBN 0-520-08760-7 .

Web links

• Sensory Ethnography Lab
• documenta 14, daybook Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
• Lucien Castaing-Taylor monoscope
• Literature by and about Lucien Castaing-Taylor in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cinema scope Lucien Castaing-Taylor accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)
2. ↑ Harvard University Lucien Castaing-Taylor accessed on May 5, 2019 (English)