Hi All
I'm writing to advertise Lab 10 at ASA 2018 in Oxford next week. The
purpose of the Lab is to experiment with a performance ethnography
technique called ethnopoetry. Places are limited due to room size, so
please reply to me off-list to register your interest.
*Listening and performing together: emotions, experience, and ethnopoetry*
Location: Pitt Rivers Museum, Beatrice Blackwood Seminar Room
Date and Start Time: 19 Sep, 2018 at 14:15
https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7085
This Lab combines performance and ethnopoetry, enabling attendees to
experiment with these techniques and consider their ethnographic
implications. Participants will leave the Lab having experienced two
emotional complexities: embodying someone else's story and having someone
else perform theirs.
*Further information:*
Since the late 1960s, the technique of ethnopoetry has been at home in a
number of disciplines, including anthropology, theatre, and linguistics. As
a practice, it envisions what geographer Stuart Aitken calls "an emotive
mapping of stories that describe connections of people to other people and
to places" (2015: 104), recognizing individuals and their communities as
becoming rather than being. Ethnopoetry's emotional impulses are also
apparent in theatre, including in the documentary theatre work of Anna
Deavere Smith and Ping Chong. When combined with performance, careful
ethnopoetry has the potential to chronicle the emotional register of
relationships, speaking with and to those who experience them.
This Lab intersects ethnopoetry and performance, offering attendees an
opportunity to experiment with both techniques. After a series of theatre
warm-ups, participants will undertake dyad discussions based on open-ended,
exploratory prompt questions. Participants will record one another in
conversation before retreating to select, curate, and perform part of their
dyad partner's words. Attention will be paid to pauses, silences, and
missteps. Overall, drawing on the convenor's experience as a performance
ethnographer who has made multiple new works at the intersection of
performance and ethnopoetry, participants will be led in a Lab that tests
the ethnographic possibilities of this practice.
All participants need their own writing materials and recording device (a
smartphone will suffice). Participants should be comfortable being audio
recorded by a peer.
Sincerely,
Asif
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*asif majid*
scholar | artist | educator
www.asifmajid.com
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