Figuring It out, What Are We? Where Do We Come from? The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists. By Colin Renfrew.

Delivering the Deep: Maritime archaeology for the 21st century: selected papers from IKUWA 7

“…The combination of arts and creativity is an emerging transdisciplinary practice of experimental heritage work and museum pedagogy (e.g. Renfrew 2003;Van Dyke and Bernbeck 2015;Bailey 2017;Kavanagh 2019;Bailey et al 2020;Petersson and Burke 2020). When I took on my dissertation work on the wreck of Hahtiperä in 2022, I wished to contribute to the 'afterlife'-the post-excavation period of the wreck's object biography-by engaging the general public in the creation of the wreck's narrative, its life story.…”

“…Collaboration and interchange between artists and archaeologists have proliferated from the beginning of the twenty-first century (Bailey 2017: 246-247, 249; see also Renfrew 2003;Van Dyke and Bernbeck 2015;Kavanagh 2019;Bailey et al 2020;Petersson and Burke 2020). Bailey suggests that archaeologists themselves should also venture in their work past the discipline's boundaries, 'let-go beyond […] to find new places (both physical and conceptual) in which to work that were beyond the traditional limits, boundaries and discourses personal output, a valuable subjective work.…”

En time forut for sin tid. Om kroppen, arkeologien og Anders Nummedal

“…Denne grunntanken hos durkheimianerne kommer for så vidt også tydelig fram, om enn på en negativ måte, hos en annen framstående arkeologisk tenker. I boken med den vanskelig oversettbare tittelen Figuring it out (Renfrew 2003) diskuterer Collin Renfrew blant annet hvordan moderne kunst kan gi oss nøkkelen til å forstå utviklingen av monumental arkitektur. Boken er svaert fascinerende og knytter tydelig an til Renfrews store, modernistiske prosjekt med siktemål, lik Claude Lévi-Strauss (1966), å redusere mennes-Glørstad kelig kultur til dens cerebrale forutsetninger.…”