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Accepted Paper
Paper short abstract
An opportunity to reflect on the aesthetic dimensions of multisensory multimodal art-ethnographies and their communicative potentials beyond academic circles, through the exploration of my visual installations Streets of… / cities in 7 minutes, and Zelige Door on Golborne Road.
Paper long abstract
During the last decades multisensory heritage and the role multimodal art-ethnographies and digital technologies can play in preserving and displaying heritage has been increasingly explored. Theoretical frameworks and artistic and curatorial practices have particularly focused on the design, production, and fruition of multisensory experiences, while areas of study and research such as sensorial urbanism and visual anthropology, have shown an increased interest in the transformative potential of embodied, multisensory dimensions of public and artistic events.
For this presentation Dr Alda Terracciano will explore ideas, practices and public responses to her two seminal multisensory multimodal projects, the installation Streets of... 7 cities in 7 minutes, retracing the ancestral memories of three migration journeys in people's everyday life, and a participatory community heritage project culminated in the creation of the immersive multisensory installation Zelige Door on Golborne Road. Developed with members of the Moroccan communities in West London, the latter explored the interaction between bodies, memories and digital environments as part of a communal response to the issue of gentrification.
Both projects reflect the increased interest in the expansion of the concept of scenography beyond more traditional theatrical settings to include potentially all environments, objects, actors and actions (McKinney & Butterworth 2009, Lotker & Gough 2013, McKinney & Palmer 2017, Aronson 2017, Von Rosen 2024, Terracciano 2021). The presentation will offer an opportunity to reflect on the aesthetic dimensions of multisensory multimodal art-ethnographies and their communicative potentials beyond academic circles.
Blurring boundaries between anthropology, cinema, arts and performance in a multimodal multi-sited visual anthropology.
Session 3 Friday 4 July, 2025, -