Join us for a day of discussions with leading researchers within arts and anthropology to explore the crossovers and distinctions within these two areas of inquiry. This one day symposium curated by artist Emma Smith will expand upon some of the key ideas and issues addressed through her current project Public Domestic, which has been commissioned by Radar, Loughborough University Arts. This project explores the domestic environments of university life as spaces of exchange and knowledge production. Considering the public implications of private actions, the morning session will reflect upon the domestic as a site of agency and habitual behaviours of the home as acts of protest. The afternoon session will discuss the ethics and methodologies of making the private public, through the practices of visual anthropology, verbatim theatre and participatory practices. Over lunch there will be a screening of Our Autonomous Life, a ‘cooperative sitcom’ initiated by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht.Speakers include -Sarah Pink, Professor of Design (Media Ethnography) RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia & Professor of Social Sciences, Loughborough University will discuss her work on visual and sensory ethnography methodologies, focusing on digital media, energy consumption and forms of activism.Artist Christian Nyampeta, MPhil/PhD candidate at the Visual Cultures Department of Goldsmiths, University of London, will reflect upon his practice which takes the form of migratory and performative events including writing and public lectures, convened through his research provisionally titled of “How To Live Together(?)”Amanda Ravetz, Research Fellow at Manchester School of Arts, a visual anthropologist with expertise in observational cinema; and the interdisciplinary connections between anthropology and art. Amanda will draw upon current research projects concerning artistic epistemologies; improvisation, play and reverie in art and anthropology.Mimi Poskitt, Artistic Director of the documentary theatre company,Look Left Look Right, will discuss the use of the verbatim technique within their work, constructing plays from the precise words spoken by people interviewed about a particular event or topic.Kerstin Leder Mackley, a collaborator on Public Domestic in relation to her work as Research Associate on the RCUK-funded LEEDR project, where she is responsible for the visual- and sensory-ethnographic exploration of domestic energy consumption and everyday digital media use.Emma Smith, artist based in London, she has a social and site-specific practice that is both research and production based. Using an inter-disciplinary approach including events, performance, participation, sound and text, her work explores the relationship of people and place.