OCA Notations: `Ethnography of the Self: The Status of Everyday Life’
Wednesday, 26 November 2014 / 19:00
‘Ethnography of the Self: The Status of Everyday Life’
A conversation between artists Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, and anthropologists Caterina Pasqualino and Arnd Schneider
With a book launch of Experimental Film and Anthropology, a book by Arnd Schneider (co-edited with Caterina Pasqualino)
Within the programme ‘Of Love, Departures and Countering Defeats in Choleric Times. Three Stagings’
OCA welcomes artists Rene Gabri and Ayreen Anastas, and anthropologists Caterina Pasqualino and Arnd Schneider for a discussion titled ‘Ethnography of the Self: The Status of Everyday Life’.
Schneider, Pasqualino, Anastas and Gabri will engage in a conversation to analyse radical anthropological approaches and modes of observation that have built scenarios of spontaneity, scripting and speculation. Touching upon several moments in history, with particular emphasis on practices set forth by visual anthropologist Jean Rouch which have become influential on means deemed appropriate to visually analyse our everyday life and our very existence, Pasqualino, Schneider, Gabri, and Anastas will shed light on how anthropology has influenced artistic practices and how artists continue to influence the anthropological approach.
The event is part of the programme ‘Of Love, Departures and Countering Defeats in Choleric Times. Three Stagings’, a project that evolves through three individual, yet interconnected stagings involving lecture performances, talks, unfinished moments and exhibition fragments, all of which contribute to speculations around the choleric moment we are experiencing globally.
