What is tribal work?
 

Bernstein 174: "Tribal work--I take this from James Clifford--is not artifact, not evidence, not document, not aesthetic object."
 
"Then what is it?"
 
see James Clifford's The Predicament of Culture (also cited in Ocean of Sound fwiw)

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #artifacts, #objects, #art, #tribalism

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