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Accepted Paper
Blurred Lines: Audio-Visual Artistry and the Distribution of Representation.
Benjamin Buchan
(Université de Fribourg)
Sol Carroll
(University of Manchester)
What role does art play in audio-visual ethnography? In what ways does a focus on art impact representation? How can artistic expressions be used to better represent lived experience and the more than human? And what does this mean for the future of anthropological fieldwork?
Paper long abstract
Anthropology is intrinsically an artistic discipline in which we create imperfect and often bias works, which are naturally driven by our unconscious and conscious theoretical and artistic agendas. During this short presentation, Benjamin Buchan and Sol Carroll discuss the artistry of audio visual research and consider the various methodological successes and failures that have arisen out of their own fieldwork. They will base their discussion around their work Tsacolé which explores the endangered art of clog making in the Western Alps.
Drawing on theorists such as Tim Ingold and David McDougall, the filmmakers consider various methodological uses and benefits of an artistic approach. Such as, how art and sensory methodologies may be used to attend to more than human connections and dimensions and they consider how art and artistic research can co-constitute sensorial knowledge and experiences. Amongst other themes, they also explore how sharing artistic practices can be used with collaborators to archive knowledge, rather than to simply transmit it.