[Commlist] VRN Residency & Conference 2022 "Encounters with the Urban Night"

We are delighted to share this opportunity and invite you to be part of 
the Visual Research Network's 2022 Residency and Conference...

Call for applications, films and papers:
*"Encounters with the Urban Night: multisensory ethnographies of shadow 
and alterity"*

Deadline for submissions:*April 7th 2022*
Notification of selection: *April 20th 2022*
The Residency:*June 12th–16th 2022*
The Conference: *June 18th–19th 2022*

The *Visual Research Network*, in association with the *Estonian 
National Museum*, will hold the 3rd edition of the *VRN Residency and 
Conference*in Tartu, Estonia from *June 12th to June 19th, 2022*. This 
year’s theme of *Urban Night*invites researchers and creative 
practitioners to engage with the alternative dimensions of the urban as 
encountered in their research, fieldwork or artistic productions, where 
the notion of an urban night is explored within the broadest framing of 
cultural, social, behavioural and sensorial phenomena.

This event will seek to showcase new perspectives and approaches that 
visual/sensory practitioners, researchers and PhD students are currently 
employing in their work and/or seeking to explore in new contexts. The 
format of a residency/conference creates an ideal environment to explore 
various approaches to both theory and practice, with each shaping and 
influencing the other through a cycle of action and reflection.

With pandemic–related restrictions being lifted around the world, the 
VRN invites researchers and practitioners to Tartu just before summer 
solstice and the shortest night of the year, to study the urban night in 
a moment of resurgence. For the conference, the VRN is looking for films 
of all lengths and research paper abstracts that tie together themes of 
alterity, identity and sensoriality within the context of the nocturnal, 
especially those that deal with elements of the urban night. Meanwhile, 
participants in the residency will be aiming to produce original work 
that revolves around the same themes of alterity, identity and 
sensoriality, but specifically in the context of Tartu’s urban night.

To enrich participants’ experience, the VRN advocates for visual, sonic, 
experimental, multisensory and cross-disciplinary knowledge. The 
encounters that the residency and conference promise represent an 
opportunity for anthropologists, sensory research practitioners and 
artists to broaden their horizons toward new methodologies and 
sensibilities through a shared, collaborative learning experience. We 
welcome submissions from applicants for either or both the residency and 
conference.

/For full information about the Residency & Conference, please visit the 
following address, and find the separate application forms for Residency 
and Conference a the bottom of the page:/
visualresearchnetwork.co.uk/vrn2022call 
<https://www.visualresearchnetwork.co.uk/vrn2022call.html>
//
/Any queries may be directed to:/(visualresearchnet /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(visualresearchnet /at/ gmail.com)>
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