{"id":113,"date":"2022-01-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/?post_type=event&#038;p=113"},"modified":"2024-02-27T12:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:11:08","slug":"multimodalvalues","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/event\/multimodalvalues\/","title":{"rendered":"The values of multimodal projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stadtlabor of Multimodal Anthropology <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Online Series Winter 2021\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early 2022, the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology held the Online Seminar Series \u201c<strong>The values of multimodal projects<\/strong>\u201c, featuring ground-breaking anthropological projects, where multimodality features not just as an add-on of particular inquiries, but as a central mode of research and intervention<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bild_the-values-of-mulitmodal-projetcs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At a moment where the conversation around \u2018multimodality\u2019 is gaining momentum, we proposed to discuss \u2018the values\u2019 of multimodal projects. By this, we meant two main things: to explore conditions to praise (\u2018valorise\u2019), but also to appraise (\u2018evaluate\u2019) multimodal projects. So, in a nutshell, this event series was an early attempt at creating the conceptual grounds for evaluating and institutionalizing multimodal endeavors, hence also fostering multimodal productions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In two related events, we deepened into the anthropological value of (i) dramaturgical \/ performance interventions, and anthropological approaches to (ii) exhibiting and curating. By opening up this space, we sought to highlight projects that we take as valuable contributions: not only to make them more visible but also so that these projects could help us in articulating their multimodal values, as well as inspiring others in their own work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only we want to be able to learn from concrete multimodal approaches \u2013 the peculiarity of the media employed, the reasons for their choices \u2013 but we wish to create the grounds for a detailed conversation between projects of the same kind, touching upon criteria of anthropological worth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video-Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The values of multimodal projects - online seminar series, HU Berlin\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/712849865?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"26-1-22-3-5-pm-how-to-exhibit-anthropologically\"><strong>26.1.22 (3-5 pm) \u2013 How to exhibit anthropologically?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Francisco Mart\u00ednez:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/contact-92656\/products\/179748\">https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/contact-92656<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Francisco Mart\u00ednez is an anthropologist dealing with contemporary issues of material culture through ethnographic experiments. In 2018, he was awarded with the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Currently, he works as Associate Professor at Tallinn University and convenes the Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation (EASA Network). Francisco has published two monographs \u2013&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/products\/179746\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(UCL Press, 2021) and&nbsp;<em>Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia<\/em>&nbsp;(UCL Press, 2018). He has also edited several books, including&nbsp;<em>Peripheral Methodologies<\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2021);&nbsp;<em>Politics of Recuperation in Post-Crisis Portugal<\/em>&nbsp;(Bloomsbury, 2020), and&nbsp;<em>Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough<\/em>&nbsp;(Berghahn, 2019), He has also curated different exhibitions \u2013 including \u2018Objects of Attention\u2019 (Estonian Museum of Applied Art &amp; Design, 2019), and \u2018Life in Decline\u2019 (Estonian Mining Museum, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Manuela Bojad\u017eijev (HU Berlin): Archiv der Flucht<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/archivderflucht.hkw.de\/en\/\">https:\/\/archivderflucht.hkw.de\/en\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuela Bojad\u017eijev, professor at the Institute for European Ethnology (HU Berlin) together with the publicist Carolin Emcke and in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), have created the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archivderflucht.hkw.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Archive of Refuge<\/a>&nbsp;as a digital place of remembrance where stories of flight and expulsion to Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries are preserved and reflected upon. The people who tell their stories in the archive tell of flight and expulsion, of torture, exploitation and deprivation of rights, but also of hope and happiness; they tell of home and exile, of belonging and new beginnings \u2013 and ultimately also show surprising, far-reaching perspectives on German history. The archive asks: What does it actually mean to seek refuge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"9-2-22-2-30-4-30-pm-how-to-stage-issues-anthropologically\"><strong>9.2.22. (2:30-4:30 pm) \u2013 How to stage issues anthropologically?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Giordano \/ Pierotti : Getting Caught&nbsp;<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/dram\/article\/64\/1%20(245)\/88\/8848\/Getting-Caught-A-Collaboration-On-and-Offstage\">https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/dram\/article\/64\/1%20(245)\/88\/8848\/Getting-Caught-A-Collaboration-On-and-Offstage<\/a>&nbsp;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her book,&nbsp;<em>Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy<\/em>&nbsp;(2014), won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2016), and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her current research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material into artistic forms. She has been collaborating with playwright and director Greg Pierotti on a new methodology, Affect Theater, at the intersection of the social sciences and performance. They have created&nbsp;<em>Unstories<\/em>&nbsp;and and&nbsp;<em>Unstories II (roaming),<\/em>&nbsp;two 50-minute performances around the current \u201crefugee crisis\u201d in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greg Pierotti&nbsp;is a theater artist and assistant professor of theater studies at University of Arizona. His plays, including&nbsp;<em>Unstories<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>b more<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Laramie Project<\/em>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The People\u2019s Temple<\/em>,&nbsp;have been seen in venues around the world and translated into over a dozen languages. He is a recipient of the Humanitas Prize, the Will Glickman Award, the San Francisco Critics Award, and has been nominated for an Emmy, a New York Drama Desk Award, and the Alpert Award for outstanding individual contribution to the theater. He and Cristiana Giordano investigate the intersection of ethnographic and theatrical research and production methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>IriThesys: AnthropoScenes: <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iri-thesys.org\/outreach\/art-science\/theatre-of-the-anthropocene\/\">https:\/\/www.iri-thesys.org\/outreach\/art-science\/theatre-of-the-anthropocene\/<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Project AnthropoScenes is run by a group of people from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cliwac.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\">interdisciplinary human-environment research<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/xn--theater-des-anthropozn-l5b.de\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theatre of the Anthropocene<\/a>. Competences reach from hard science to pop-up theatre. We aim to involve diverse publics in debates about water futures and bring two questions: Can multimodality help to balance divergent logics of science and theatre? What are tips and tricks to move beyond the usual suspects? J\u00f6rg Niew\u00f6hner (anthropology), Pauline M\u00fcnch (science communication) and Frank Raddatz (theatre) will represent the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"questions-we-want-to-raise1-what-were-the-reasons-to-choose-this-peculiar-approach-media-or-art-form-what-relation-do-these-forms-bear-to-specific-ethnographic-fieldwork-studies-or-particular-anthropological-modes-of-inquiry-what-were-your-aims-in-exploring-this-multimodal-form-2-what-have-been-the-knowledges-you-ve-needed-to-become-acquainted-with-to-use-these-media-forms-what-does-anthropological-research-and-knowledge-production-become-when-shaped-in-this-particular-form-or-using-these-devices-also-how-could-we-critically-reflect-as-anthropologists-on-the-affordances-promises-challenges-and-predicaments-of-the-particular-devices-of-your-multimodal-ethnographic-engagement-in-a-nutshell-what-are-the-promises-and-challenges-of-this-form-for-anthropological-inquiries-3-what-effects-have-your-multimodal-form-of-choice-had-on-the-people-you-were-working-with-your-interlocutors-your-peers-how-could-we-learn-to-appreciate-and-value-these-effects-that-is-what-contours-of-anthropological-practice-are-being-delineated-in-what-your-multimodal-explorations-made-emerge-4-have-you-been-able-to-document-your-project-in-what-form-what-have-been-the-main-challenges-or-difficulties-in-doing-so-who-have-you-addressed-in-doing-so-that-is-who-are-your-audiences-publics-a-more-informal-conversation-on-these-issues-with-questions-and-comments-from-the-hosts-and-the-audience-will-ensue\"><strong>Key Questions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1. What were the reasons to choose this peculiar approach, media or art form? What relation do these forms bear to specific ethnographic fieldwork studies or particular anthropological modes of inquiry? What were your aims in exploring this multimodal form?<br><br>2. What have been the knowledges you\u2019ve needed to become acquainted with to use these media\/forms? What does anthropological research and knowledge production become when shaped in this particular form or using these devices? Also, how could we critically reflect, as anthropologists, on the affordances, promises, challenges and predicaments of the particular devices of your multimodal ethnographic engagement? In a nutshell, what are the promises and challenges of this form for anthropological inquiries?<br><br>3. What effects have your multimodal form of choice had on the people you were working with: your interlocutors, your peers? How could we learn to appreciate and value these effects: that is, what contours of anthropological practice are being delineated in what your multimodal explorations made emerge?<br><br>4. Have you been able to document your project, in what form? What have been the main challenges or difficulties in doing so? Who have you addressed in doing so: that is, who are your audiences, publics?<br><br>A more informal conversation on these issues, with questions and comments from the hosts and the audience, will ensue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Winter Semester&#8217;s 21-22 Stadtlabor Online Seminar Series, we aim to invite ground-breaking anthropological projects where multimodality features not just as an add-on of particular inquiries, but as a central mode of research and intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","block":[3],"event-type":[],"schlagwort":[],"_template":[11],"class_list":["post-113","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","block-stadtlabor","_template-1-above"],"_ev_tile_title":"The values of multimodal projects","_ev_tile_subtitle":"Online Lecture Series","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/block?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"schlagwort","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/schlagwort?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/stadtlabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_template?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}