Harriet Min Zhang
is an independent curator and writer, based in China. 



        BA Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
        MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (RCA), London



Zhang explores approaches to cross-disciplinary collaborations between anthropology and contemporary art and cultural practices. She considers ethnography a research method and the notion of an interpretive thick description essential for a contextualised understanding of artistic practices. 

She recognises nuances among different disciplines and bodies of knowledge and contests situations of conjuring and myth-making that regenerate aesthetic and epistemological codes. Her current interest in death and medicalisation is embodied in a research of materials’ afterlife and surgical violence.
















Afterlife
Anthropology and ethnography
Archive
Bonsai                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Category fallacy
Cultural Critique
Death
Defense mechanism
Diorama
Fossil and diorama
Garden
Ghost
Greenwash
Issue of representation
Magic and Conjuring
Medicalisation
Meme
Nature
OOO
Pathologisation
Peace
Piracy and copycat culture
Planetary thinking
Science as a dialect
Sculptural
Slow curating
Sound
Suicide
Surgery
Sustainability
Terrorism
Theatre of the deadThick description
War