Paper short abstract:

The collaborative project between social actors and researcher, the interpretation of the visual hybrids, as well forms of narration inside the visual anthropology can parallel establish a dialogue useful about reproduction of reality’s complexity and research methodologies on the fieldwork

Paper long abstract:

"Seeing Voices - Hear Signs" is a lab founded inside the E.N.S. - National Community of Deaf - reflecting with a creative approach about the experience of deafness. Young deaf meet to study how elaborate visual products, theatre, documentary and visual hybrids that shows the experience of deafness in Perugia (Italy). After a theatre show, the lab, stopped its activity for economical and local political issues from which flows an organizational instability, affecting the welfare of the community and the creative activities. During an ethnographic research was decided to organize meetings to discuss about a visual product, that allow to describe the variety of practices and experiences related to issues of the field of deafness. The collaborative project between social actors and researcher - collect, interpreting data and with a focus on the narrative styles - allows investigate the mechanisms of visual experimentation and discuss the research methodologies in continuous negotiation on the fieldwork. My paper is based on ethnography started on 2010 and still in progress, on the interactions practices and construction of culture of the Deaf. In the paper I will discuss about the creation of visual hybrid to collect data on the fieldwork, as well forms of narration can reproduce the complexity of the reality. On the one hand investigate the relations between research and artistic creation to reflect on the ethnographic methodologies and the negotiation with social actors. On the other how the contemporary hybrids using different narratives, direct cinema, ethnofiction, theatrical performances, can be a reproduction of the field.