Description

Video shapes and summons publics in multiple ways. Through events of screening, researchers and creative practitioners convene diverse audiences around the viewing of film and video. Publics may also be engaged in the making of video — whether as part of participatory filmmaking projects or by using the camera as a method for setting up encounters in the field. In addition, researchers also work with video as data, evidence, and as aesthetic-political objects that are produced, circulated, and imprinted by both online and offline publics.

This workshop invites a collective enquiry into what researchers and creative practitioners do with video, and what possibilities video opens for thinking about publics. We will invite 4–5 pre-selected participants to screen a video of up to three minutes — this might be a fragment of a longer piece, an unfinished sequence, or a digital artefact used in their research. Each presenter will briefly introduce their video and reflect on how publics or publicness figures as part of their practice. The remainder of the session will be a guided discussion, inviting audience members to ask questions, offer feedback, and reflect on how video mediates their own encounters with publics.