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Michael T. Taussig is an Australian anthropologist and professor at Columbia University.

Becoming Palm is the outcome of a conversation between two friends, artist Simryn Gill and anthropologist Michael Taussig responding to oil palm plantations and “the enormous transformations, human, and ecological, that this crop engenders” (Michael…

13 Jan 2016, Wed 6:30pm - 8:00pm The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road Join us for an evening with internationally renowned anthropologist Michael Taussig and artist Simryn Gill. The evening marks the long term inter-disciplinary collaboration…

13 Jan 2016, Wed 6:30pm - 8:00pm Internationally renowned anthropologist Michael Taussig will present A Test Case: The Palm Plantation as Violence and Art, addressing the African Palm in the context of northern Colombia where it is known as a…