Antrofilm - Forelesning: Towards intermedial design and curation in inter-cultural collaboration
Tårnsalen, Muséplassen 3
Forelesning: Towards intermedial design and curation in inter-cultural collaboration
Sebastian J. Lowe, PhD Researcher, James Cook University & Aarhus University.
NB: Forelesningen holdes på engelsk.
Sebastian Lowe er antropolog, musiker og filmskaper, som i sitt arbeid bruker samskaping som metode. I sitt doktorgradsprosjekt jobber han sammen med taonga puoro musikere (tradisjonelle Māori instrumenter) fra Aotearoa, New Zealand. I dette foredraget vil han diskutere dette samarbeidet, og vise noen konkrete resultater i form av musikk, en dokumentarfilm, samt et intermedialt vitenskapelig arbeid.
Lowe er PhD stipendiat ved James Cook University, Australia, og Aarhus universitet, Danmark, og har også en bakgrunn i klassisk musikk fra Aotearoa, New Zealand, og Griegakademiet i Bergen. Hans akademiske hovedinteresser er musikk og lyd, film, økologi, kreative metoder, samarbeid, etikk, og eksperimentell antropologi.
Abstract:
Academic institutions can be immutable toward experimental ways of doing research within intercultural, community-led contexts. Formal ethical frameworks do not hold space for research relationships to be properly tended to beyond the purposes of fulfilling a project’s ‘research objectives’ and ‘intended outcomes’. Such institutional stubbornness extends into academic publishing whereby it limits the various forms such research needs to take in order to do justice to the entanglements of relationships and wider social contexts.
In his talk, Sebastian J. Lowe will explore his recent collaboration with the curatorium collective and discuss how it provided the unique opportunity to compose an intermedial journal article around his doctoral work with taonga puoro players (traditional Māori musical instruments) in Whanganui, a small town located along the banks of Te Awa Tupua (The Whanganui River), on the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Lowe's community-led, co-creative PhD project explores the many ways taonga puoro are used as ancestral tools for holistic wellbeing while Lowe also interrogates what is at stake as a critical-creative non-Indigenous researcher working in this mode of emergent scholarship.
Through these collaborations Lowe will think through how the ethical commitments involved in thinking through and with form, and its emergent analytical potential, can amplify a commitment to community and to scholarship in subtle, life-affirming ways. He will suggest, in short, that new forms of critical creative scholarship can do justice to intercultural, community-led research.
Antrofilm: antropologisk film på museet
Universitetsmuseet i Bergen presenterer antropologisk filmvisning på museet. I samarbeid med Institutt for sosialantropologi, Nordic Anthropological Film Association og Journal of Anthropological Films, inviterer vi filmelskere, filmskapere, antropologer og andre for å se antropologisk orienterte filmer, for å diskutere menneskelig kultur, estetikk, politikk og praksis for representasjon, og utvide blikket.
NAFA har siden grunnleggelsen på begynnelsen av 1970-tallet promotert etnografisk film gjennom den årlige NAFA-filmfestivalen, NAFAs filmarkiv og online filmsamling av antropologiske filmer. NAFA-arkivet oppbevares i dag på Universitetsmuseet i Bergen.
Lecture: Towards intermedial design and curation in inter-cultural collaboration
Sebastian J. Lowe, PhD Researcher, James Cook University & Aarhus University.
NB: The lecture will be held in English.
Sebastian Lowe is an anthropologist, musician and filmmaker, who uses co-creation as a method in his work. In his PhD project, he works with taonga puoro musicians (traditional Māori instruments) from Aotearoa, New Zealand. In this lecture, he will discuss this collaboration, and show some concrete results in the form of music, a documentary film, as well as an intermedial research paper.
Lowe is a PhD scholar at James Cook University, Australia, and Aarhus University, Denmark, and also has a background in classical music from Aotearoa, New Zealand and the Grieg Academy in Bergen. His main academic interests are music and sound, film, ecology, creative methods, collaboration, ethics, and experimental anthropology.
Abstract:
Academic institutions can be immutable toward experimental ways of doing research within intercultural, community-led contexts. Formal ethical frameworks do not hold space for research relationships to be properly tended to beyond the purposes of fulfilling a project’s ‘research objectives’ and ‘intended outcomes’. Such institutional stubbornness extends into academic publishing whereby it limits the various forms such research needs to take in order to do justice to the entanglements of relationships and wider social contexts.
In his talk, Sebastian J. Lowe will explore his recent collaboration with the curatorium collective and discuss how it provided the unique opportunity to compose an intermedial journal article around his doctoral work with taonga puoro players (traditional Māori musical instruments) in Whanganui, a small town located along the banks of Te Awa Tupua (The Whanganui River), on the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Lowe's community-led, co-creative PhD project explores the many ways taonga puoro are used as ancestral tools for holistic wellbeing while Lowe also interrogates what is at stake as a critical-creative non-Indigenous researcher working in this mode of emergent scholarship.
Through these collaborations Lowe will think through how the ethical commitments involved in thinking through and with form, and its emergent analytical potential, can amplify a commitment to community and to scholarship in subtle, life-affirming ways. He will suggest, in short, that new forms of critical creative scholarship can do justice to intercultural, community-led research.
Antrofilm: anthropological film at the museum
The University Museum of Bergen presents anthropological film screenings at the museum. In collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology, Nordic Anthropological Film Association and Journal of Anthropological Films, we bring together film lovers, film makers, anthropologists and others to watch anthropological orientated films, to discuss human culture, aesthetics, the politics and practices of representation, and to expand our visions.
NAFA has since its founding in the early 1970s, promoted ethnographic film through the annual NAFA film festival and its collection and online database of anthropological films. The NAFA archive is hosted by The University Museum of Bergen.