[Commlist] CFP for Panel on Media Ethnographies from Precarious landscapes

CFP for Precarious landscapes: forensis and decolonial futures
a panel at the 16th Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival & 
Conference
*Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others*
March 27 - 30, 2019 - The Watershed, Bristol, UK
convenors: Daryl Celeste Meador (New York University), Toma Peiu 
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Submit a proposal via the online form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEAI2olQ66MmFurTgEpu8BLIWN0SBhV9wgw1JriK1EobkhVw/viewform>

*Deadline: January 6th, 2019*

This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing 
images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming from 
ethnographers and media artists researching border areas, diasporas and 
environmentally, politically or economically exposed geographies is 
expected to challenge notions of centrality and subalternity.

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Between Hito Steyerl’s poor image, Eyal Weizman’s forensis and Michael 
D. Jackson’s existentiality, this panel will be juxtaposing case studies 
of experimental artwork resulted from ethnographically-minded 
collaboration with protagonists from the periphery, and / or based in 
vulnerable geographies. Sites of precarious movement and migration often 
intersect with shifting landscapes in an era of globalized capitalism. 
These may include everydays transformed by the extraction economy, the 
enforcement of international borders, conflict, environmental 
vulnerability and Rob Nixon’s concept of “slow violence”, the experience 
of asylum or migration. We welcome papers and project presentations that 
critically interrogate and / or expand normative forms of representation 
and documentation in such sites.

In light of ever-increasing inequality, what is the future of 
ethnographic media practice? Under the siege of an institutionalized 
flow of descriptive immersivity and graphic imagery, is representation 
obsolete – if it’s not, what work is being done to give it renewed 
meaning? Could decolonial aestheSis (“a sensation of touch” – 
Mignolo/Vazquez 2013), provide an afterlife for ethnography? Panelists 
should critically address the connection between their methodologies and 
their sites of study; but also that between the technology they use (360 
imagery, celluloid film, digital / sound mapping or oral history), their 
protagonists and the works resulted from this process – in writing or 
other media.

For any questions, contact us at (dcm395 /at/ nyu.edu) <mailto:(dcm395 /at/ nyu.edu)>; 
(toma.peiu /at/ colorado.edu) <mailto:(toma.peiu /at/ colorado.edu)>


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