[Commlist] Embodying the Video Essay – videographic workshop

*Embodying the Video Essay – videographic workshop, Bowdoin College, 
Maine, July 8-15th, 2023*

This initiative is designed to bring together audiovisual essayists who 
want to develop and exchange methods within a dynamic, collaborative 
environment.

We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by leading 
videographic practitioners as guest speakers / presenters: Dr Johannes 
Binotto <https://transferences.org/>, Professor Catherine Grant 
<https://catherinegrant.org/>, Professor Kevin B Lee 
<https://www.alsolikelife.com/home/about> and Professor Jason Mittell 
<https://justtv.wordpress.com/about/>.

Our goal is to expand connections within a dedicated videographic 
community and to unite for an intensive, in-person, week-long workshop 
of making and exploration. In preparation for the workshop, participants 
will engage in organized Zoom sessions in April, May, and June. These 
sessions will introduce key themes of the initiative and serve as 
community-building opportunities for inspiration and feedback. The 
week-long workshop will be held atBowdoin College 
<https://www.bowdoin.edu/>(Brunswick, Maine, USA), July 8th-15th, and 
includes presentations by guest speakers, new videographic exercises 
developed to explore embodied practices, and ample opportunity to work 
on projects with the support of community feedback and potential 
collaboration. Following the workshop, there will be opportunities for 
participants to plan future presentations, exhibitions, and possible 
publications of created works.

With a focus on performance-based embodied practices, this initiative 
encourages videographic critics to reflect on how the video essay 
engages with frameworks of identity, representation, the materiality of 
texts, and the senses. We invite opportunities for video essay 
practitioners to explore theories of intersectional practice-based 
research with a focus on positionality and relationality. Participants 
are encouraged to situate themselves in relationship to their object of 
study, the structures that produced this object, audiences that engage 
with it, and the communities and peoples that it may implicate and 
represent. Likewise, we ask participants to question how we might 
navigate and expand an as-yet nascent form of scholarship that draws on 
established academic structures, through interactive methods to engage 
with the materiality of digital texts. We are curious to explore the 
relationships between embodiment and the screen and how these 
connections might find expression in the video essay. Finally, we are 
keen to expand on and generate meaningful methods of engagement: to 
foster and develop community-based commentary, feedback, and criticism 
through attentiveness, kindness, rigour, and mutual responsibility.

See our website for more details: 
https://sites.google.com/view/embodiedpractices2023/about?authuser=0


*Applications are still open, and will close on 3rd March. *We have one 
fully-funded PhD scholarship, which covers workshop fees and travel to 
and from Bowdoin.

This project is generously supported by partnerships between the 
Canadian government and supporting international academic institutions.

Organising committee: Joel Burges, Allison Cooper, Lucy Fife Donaldson, 
Colleen Laird, Dayna McLeod and Alison Peirse

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