About Anna Laine

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Anna Laine is an independent researcher based in Stockholm. She holds a PhD in social anthropology,  is trained as photographer and artist, and has been a research fellow at Goldsmiths, UoL. Laine explores possible and impossible combinations of academic and artistic ways of working and suggests experimental strategies where the not yet known can emerge. Her main subject matter has been Tamil contemporary art and material/visual culture, located in South Asia as well as in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in the UK. In 2018, Laine published the book ‘Practicing Art and Anthropology: A Transdisciplinary Journey’, available at Routledge.