Reading Between

Hello everyone, my name is Alberto. Alberto Guerreiro.
I'm an anthropologist and museologist living in Alcobaça, Portugal. It’s a cute and small country city, not faraway form Lisbon. It’s a city full of history though. We have a great monastery from the Cistercian monks. A real beauty. I came from Lisbon to work here, helping the city to develop a museum.
Beside that (institutional work), I just started other projects more related with contemporary art. This is something I have always been interested. My anthropology degree thesis was based on modern and contemporary art museums – architecture, public relations, visitor’s studies and management – and I had the chance to make some field work in Amsterdam (Kunsthalle, Chabot, Cobra Museum) beside Lisbon. Today, my interests go far behind the scholar and technical point of view and take me to the artistic field. Exhibition work and installations performances will be my next steps into it. This week I will present my first video work in public. It’s a 16min video performance about the spirit of competition of man. I name it X-Machina (explain later if you will be interested).
About my readings. I try to read as much I can. Go from fiction to essay or scientific books. Now, I am reading two novels: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCharty and Incest by Marquis de Sade (hard stuff, hun?). And always go back to William Burroughs books. Beside that I am reading a lot of articles and parts of books related with museology because I am preparing my master degree thesis in museology and patrimony (the theme is about museums management). Anthropology comes always in my mind and in my hand writing when I have to make my own scholar work. And the Graeber’s book came just in time. I took notice of the reading between project by a friend of mine and I became immediately interested. I have to admit I never heard of David Graeber before but that just increase my wish to read it and exchange my points of views with you all. My favourite social scientists are Pierre Bourdieu, Arjun Appadurai (who I have the chance to make contact in Lisbon, some years ago), Pierre Clastres, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. My favourite classic one is Thomas Hobbes. So, you can see that Graeber will be of a real importance to me. I will start reading it now and soon I will post my first comments on that.

Thank you all! Congratulations to you Sal Randolph for the idea of putting this project on the internet.

PS: sorry for any bad English that was written here, long time since I had to make a statement like this.

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