‘Cultural Creativity’ & ‘Archaeological Influences in the Arts’
2012 Entries for The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Tracing heritage erasure along I-195
Video presentation for the “Heritage Erasure: Vandalism and Obliteration in the Historic Environment” session of the “Peoples, places, stories 2011” conference at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Created from the archive of Fiona Hallinan’s artist project “Roadscore | Invisible String”. Thank you to Fiona Hallinan, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the John Nicholas Brown Center for […]
Exquisite Things in Contexts, Haffenreffer Museum Annual Newsletter
Exquisite Things: An exhibition of connections within collections from the May 2011 issue of Contexts – The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s Annual Newsletter –by Ian Russell This past December, the students of Things: The Material Worlds of Humanity opened a new off-site exhibition project for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Located in the newly reopened Stephen […]
Exquisite Things Discussion Podcast
The Haffenreffer Museum just released this video podcast of a discussion and experimental interaction with the Exquisite Things exhibition with students and faculty at Brown University.
Cultural Heritage Management
2012 Section Editor for Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.
Unfinished Homes
2010 in Home, This Is It Gallery, Dublin. On the occasion of the exhibition “Home”. Read it here.
‘Curating collaborative heritages: Dissonance, relational aesthetics and some lessons from inner-city Dublin’
Delivered at the 2009 Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists Heritage spaces are often assumed to be ‘from the past’ or ‘just about the past’. Heritage is assumed to be a ‘stoppage’ of time. The choice to create ‘heritage’ is, however, a contemporary decision requiring collaboration and social partnership. Through a recalibration of temporal […]
Art & Archaeology
2008 in P. Cooke, A. Feldman, C. O’Donnell, T. O’Keeffe, S. Tuck, I. Russell and P. Ryan Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Archaeology in Inner-Cty Dublin: Spatialitiy, Materiality and Identity-Formation among Dublin’s Working Class and Immigrant Communities, Hertiage Council of Ireland INSTAR Report. Read it here
Art, archaeology & the contemporary
2008 as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal. Listen here. Read it here.
Archaeoclash: Mediating art and archaeology
2008 as part of Art & Archaeology: Highlights from the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, UCD Scholarcast, Series 2, audio journal. (with Andrew Cochrane) Listen here. Read it here.