Cool Stone: Hot Hands - Dr Jeanne Cannizzo, Social Anthropologist, University of Edinburgh

5 Aug
5.30pm. Approximately 1 hour
FREE
www.eca.ac.uk

Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, Studios C26-C28 (first right off Sculpture Court)
Talks will take place in the Milestone exhibition space, with seating provided.

Taking a single stone object, probably carved from a Mezcala River pebble in ancient western Mexico, Dr Cannizzo will explore what can be deduced from scholarly research and a physical examination of the object. Then the multiple meanings which might have become attached to this thing as it moves from ornament to artefact, to junk shop 'treasure', to its latest incarnation as her personal talisman, will be suggested. All of these meanings revolve, at some level, around the carving's materiality and tactility.