Anna Grasskamp - global dis:connect

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Anna Grasskamp

Anna Grasskamp is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews. She authored Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia. Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (Reimer, 2019; second edition in preparation). Her articles have appeared in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Renaissance Studies and other journals. Anna is a subject editor at the review journal SEHEPUNKTE and a member of the editorial boards of the book series Global Epistemics and the Journal for the History of Knowledge.

Trash as Treasure: Value Disconnections and the Recycling of Chinese Matter in Art and Design, 1500–2020

Anna has been the principal investigator of two research projects funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Ocean Objects: Maritime Material Culture in Southern China from a Global Perspective (2018-2020) and Upcycling Hong Kong: The Circular Economy of Recycling Material Culture in Pearl River Delta Jewelry Design (2020–2022). At global dis:connect she will work on her project Trash as Treasure: Value Disconnections and the Recycling of Chinese Matter in Art and Design, 1500–2020.

Find out more about the workshop Anna organized during her fellowship.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Anna and HERE for a list of her publications.