Isomorphic Articulations: Notes from collaborative film-work in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective
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Isomorphic Articulations : Notes from collaborative film-work in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective. / ARTlife Film Collective.
Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits. ed. / Francisco Martinez; Lili Di Puppo; Martin Demant Frederiksen. London : Routledge, 2021. (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Isomorphic Articulations
T2 - Notes from collaborative film-work in an Afghan-Danish Film Collective
AU - Waltorp, Karen
AU - ARTlife Film Collective
PY - 2021/4/28
Y1 - 2021/4/28
N2 - The chapter is written in collaboration with the ARTlife Film Collective (Sama Sadat Ben Haddou, Nilab Totakhil, Asma Mohammedzai Safi, Mursal Khosrawi, Karen Waltorp) which grew out of the research project: 'ARTlife: Articulations of Life among Afghans in Denmark’ and its experiments with co-generating spaces of articulation beyond the verbal and that which can be grasped within conventional academic discourse.The ARTlife Film Collective works with 'research-through-filmmaking', akin to 'research-through-design' approaches that acknowledge the interventional, and the researcher's entwinement with that which is researched. The chapter unpacks the notions of ’collaboration’ and 'workshop’ pivotal in this project and discusses how the circulation of images in social media concretely was part of the knowledge emerging between the members of collective. This is conceptualized as ’isomorphic articulations’: Gregory Bateson advocated remaining systematic and rigorous in working open-ended with no narrowly predefined goal, and Eduardo Kohn, inspired by Bateson, suggests an anthropological thinking that is isomorphic, that is, corresponding or similar in form and relations. The chapter unfolds moments in the Film Collectives process toward isomorphic articulations in/across registers and modalities, and finally it zooms in on how this process entails unlearning and relinquishing of control.
AB - The chapter is written in collaboration with the ARTlife Film Collective (Sama Sadat Ben Haddou, Nilab Totakhil, Asma Mohammedzai Safi, Mursal Khosrawi, Karen Waltorp) which grew out of the research project: 'ARTlife: Articulations of Life among Afghans in Denmark’ and its experiments with co-generating spaces of articulation beyond the verbal and that which can be grasped within conventional academic discourse.The ARTlife Film Collective works with 'research-through-filmmaking', akin to 'research-through-design' approaches that acknowledge the interventional, and the researcher's entwinement with that which is researched. The chapter unpacks the notions of ’collaboration’ and 'workshop’ pivotal in this project and discusses how the circulation of images in social media concretely was part of the knowledge emerging between the members of collective. This is conceptualized as ’isomorphic articulations’: Gregory Bateson advocated remaining systematic and rigorous in working open-ended with no narrowly predefined goal, and Eduardo Kohn, inspired by Bateson, suggests an anthropological thinking that is isomorphic, that is, corresponding or similar in form and relations. The chapter unfolds moments in the Film Collectives process toward isomorphic articulations in/across registers and modalities, and finally it zooms in on how this process entails unlearning and relinquishing of control.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Isomorphic
KW - Articulation
KW - Visual anthropology
KW - Collective
KW - Peripheral
KW - Greyness
KW - Digital anthropology
KW - Representation
KW - Experimental ethnography
KW - Poetry and Politics
UR - https://anthropology.ku.dk/research/new_publications/2021/isomorphic-articulations-notes-from-collaborative-film-work-in-an-afghan-danish-film-collective/
M3 - Book chapter
SN - ISBN 9781350173071
T3 - Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
BT - Peripheral Methodologies
A2 - Martinez, Francisco
A2 - Di Puppo, Lili
A2 - Demant Frederiksen, Martin
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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