RAHMENPROGRAMM 2012
KEYNOTE | Dr. Andrew Irving | University of Manchester
THE LIVES OF OTHER CITIZENS: THINKING AND MOVING BEYOND TEXT
Thinking, feeling, moving body and a city’s material surroundings and uses this to present an understanding of lived experience as a continuous sensory exchange between mind, body and world.
When a person walks around a city they resemble a film director as they encounter different images and mentally record and narrate their visual and auditory experiences: thus creating a movie in their head by way of the situations and sounds they come across, including the various cinematic techniques of close ups, long shots, cutting away, fleeting or lingering gazes that merge with different qualities of lighting, ambient sounds and overheard conversations.
This suggests how cinematic montage is already prefigured in wider assemblages of lived and sensory experience whereby people’s everyday movements are creative acts of *poesis* that continuously generate complex juxtapositions of sound, image, texture, taste and aroma within ongoing daily life. Thus,
simply by deciding to walk down one street rather than another or by going to a park, cafe or industrial neighbourhood people actively create their sensory experience of the present *The Lives of Other Citizens *will therefore offer attempt to revisualise the city of Vienna by way of an original piece of experimental ethnography specifically produced for ethnocineca.
FOTO EXHIBITION | Dr. Wolfgang Kraus | University of Vienna
Wolfgang Kraus ist Sozialanthropologe und ao. Professor an der Universität Wien. Er hat zwischen 1983 und 2005 insgesamt mehr als zwei Jahre lang Feldforschungen im marokkanischen Hohen Atlas durchgeführt und zahlreiche Publikationen vorgelegt.
Die Photographie spielte dabei eine zentrale Rolle – nicht auf ein ergänzendes Mittel systematischer Datengewinnung reduziert, sondern als Kernelement der totalen Erfahrung der Feldforschung. Die visuell gestaltende Auseinandersetzung mit Menschen und Landschaft wurde so zu einem wichtigen Teil des Dort-Seins. Die gezeigten Aufnahmen stammen sämtlich aus der ersten Forschungsphase Mitte der 1980er Jahre.
