The presentation delves into storytelling modes using the example of the a Taekwondo pioneer's life history.
Paper Abstract
Reflecting different iterations of a life history, this paper revises a paper under review and seeks feedback on an emerging video essay. Both yields address the problematics of participatory documentary making - portraying a life history as much as a contested history of a sport. The video essay intends to tell the life history of a man who arrived in Argentina without papers in the 1960s and obtained an honorary distinction which was awarded in Congress in 2019 for co-introducing the martial art Taekwondo. The paper discusses situation ethics, power constellations and forms of consent to record and present the collected material. Balancing what members of the club wanted me to tell, what the pioneer themselves asked for and what the data affords, posed to any kind of iteration technical as well as ethical opportunities and impasses. The conference presentation gives insights into the backstage of the academic outputs to explore critically multimodal approaches to telling sporting life-histories.