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Building on a ten-year collaboration by the community-based arts collective Miyarrka Media, the project is an experiment in the anthropology of co-creation. 

Miyarrka Media is an Indigenous arts collective in northern Australia, led by Dhalwangu elder Paul Gurrumuruwuy and visual anthropologist Jennifer Deger, who has collaborated on Yolngu media projects for more than twenty-five years. 

King of Bangkok is a 2021 non-fictional graphic novel. This multimodal project happens after more than a decade of public anthropological research, writing blog posts and documenting protests in Thailand, as part of an attempt to think graphically through ethnography and think ethnographically through comics. It is the result of a four-year collaboration between anthropologist Claudio Sopranzetti, visual artist Sara Fabbri, and editor Chiara Natalucci.

The Maribor Uprisings is a collaborative project of anthropologist Maple Raza and a collective of activists in Maribor, Slovenia, that follows an idea of encounters beyond research. In the once prosperous industrial city of Maribor, anger over political corruption became an unruly revolt. In The Maribor Uprisings–part film, part conversation and part interactive experiment–people are invited to participate in the protests.

‘Ay Kash / ای کاش / If Only’ is a hybrid performance featuring live on-stage action by  Rachel Karafistan of Cosmino Productions and filmed ‘interaction’ with eleven young women in Afghanistan.

Under the Starry Afghan Sky is a collective by eleven young women from Kabul (anonymised). The performance also features animations designed to protect the identities of the eleven young women by Berlin artist, Anna Benner. In addition to the live performance, there is a touring exhibition featuring artwork, texts and soundscapes.

Digital Platform “Ethnodata”. Experimental research structure “Kaleidos” based in Ecuador.

Kaleidos – Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography articulates efforts between the University of Cuenca and FLACSO-Ecuador to promote interinstitutional and interdisciplinary collaborations.  This ethnography-centered research space in the global south aims to bring together scientists and ethnographers to build bridges across disciplines through research-driven discussions around urgent worldly issues. This means: producing research that informs local problems through socially engaged mechanisms, and combining a multidisciplinary perspective to the development of innovative solutions to global challenges.

At Kaleidos, they produced ethnographic and quantitative data through collaborations (including EthnoData, Map against State Repression and Brutality, Prison Observatory), worked with different social movements and collectives, including the Spanish PAH (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) and the Alliance against Prisons in Ecuador; worked multi-modally through documentaries and visualizations  and thought deeply about decoloniality, collaboration, critical pedagogy, and experimental methods.