Master Weekly-schedule (September to December 2007) ***latest update: October 5, 2007
**Scroll down to check weekly tasks to complete before class-meeting
| M1/Sep 14 | M2/Sep 21 | M3/Sep 28 | M4/Oct 5 | M5/Oct 12 | M6/Oct 19 | M7/Oct 26 | M8/Nov 2 | M9/Nov 9 | M10/Nov 16 | M11/Nov 23 | M12/Nov 30 | |
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| Theme & Focus | Introduction, overview, why-how-what... | Deploying audio-visual media in ethnographic research | Researching and collecting visual/audio objects to gain insight into culture & everyday life | Beyond anthropology: things, objects, systems, archives | Ethnography and/for/in art-making: from ethnography to creative collecting
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Collecting and art-making as creative intervention | ||||||
| Lecture / theoretical exposition | What is Ethnography? What is its role in Cultural Studies? | Overview of the history and variety of documentaries and visual anthropology | Visual methodologies (Sam Yiu: a reading of Sarah Pink's Visual Ethnography) | The "Everyday": histories and conceptualization | Irving Goffman: presentation of the self in the dramaturgy of everyday life
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NO CLASS MEETING (PUBLIC HOLIDAY) | Michel Foucault: self-techniques, self technology, ethics and governmentality | Things & objects in Critical Theory | Narrativity in ethnography | Organizing the material: archive as critical methodology | Visual Ethnography as creative activity: performativity and interventions | Ethno-methodology & history-writing |
| Assigned Readings | "Self, Script and Situations: identity in a world of ICTs" (Bibi van den Berg) [download essay] | |||||||||||
| Workshop | Discussion | Screening excerpts from Chantel Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) |
Screening excerpts from Jason's Portrait + Linda Lai's All About Cinderella (2006) | Screening excerpts from Paris is Burning (1990) + Irene Kong's book on her mother | What's in family photos? + Adrian Bonnie's Framing the Bride project |
Desk-top: a world of connectivity The mysterious life of objects |
Yvonne Lau & Hung Ying's FYPs | Eugene Atget's works into digital archives | Harun Farocki's digital analysis of the World Cup 2006 | Linda Lai's virtual walk through the urban space of HK in 1934 | ||
| Group Presentation | (Linda talking about her own research-creation histories...)
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(Linda) Early examples in visual ethnography: Robert Flaherty, Maya Deren, Jean Rouch: an introduction |
More early examples in visual ethnography: documentary works of Basil Wright (e.g. Song of Ceylon 1934 ) + John Grierson (works from the 1930s) | (Sunday, Big Head) Jean Rouch's reflexive documentary and "cinema verite" (Chronicle of a Summer 1960) + Frederick Wiseman's Direct Cinema (e.g. The Titicut Follies 1967) [dossier for preparation of presentation]
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(Dan, Jone, Bruno) Surrealism, photography & the research of urban space (Surrealist works, e.g. Nadja, photography of Eugene Atget) |
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(Kiki, Candy Ho, Sam) The works of Chris Marker (video and installation as cultural archives) + Trinh Min-ha (visual ethnography and critical visual essays) |
(Lilian, Damon) Fiction or facts? - Yvonne Rainer (documentary + fiction); Abigail Child (imagination with found-footage) |
(Ada, Candy) Tracey Emin (photography, installation, objects) + Wendy Eward's action-based photographic projects with children and minorities (e.g. Secret Games) |
(April, Dominique) Auto-ethnography & performativity: Jo Spence, Sophie Calle, and Vito Hannibal Acconci |
(Veronica, Suet) Comparison: photography project for women in Yunnan (Visual Voices: 100 Photographs of Village China by the Women of Yunnan Province) Vs mixed media research with women in Guatemala (?¡§Creative Arts and Photography in Participatory Action Research in Guatemala¡¨ by M. Brinton Lykes; in collaboration with the Association of Maya Ixil Women ¡V New Dawn, Chajul, Guatemala) |
(Ting, Rachel, Fei) History-making: the case of Oscar Ho + the "Atlas Group" and Walid Raad (Beirut) (Queenie, Hei) Topography of things: "Enthusiasm" and Hashen El Madani's photo studio practice |
Take-home Assignment - A day in life |
Planning & strategizing | Check out camera on September 19 | Start interpretation, narrative treatment and construction, editing... | In-class presentation of Draft | ||||||||
Take-home Assignment - Tale-talking heads |
Check out camera on September 19 | In-class presentation of selected clips | ||||||||||
Creative Collecting Family photos |
start collecting | start organizing | start writing notes | bring collectibles to class with some basic notes and organization | ||||||||
Creative Collecting Desk-top views |
start collecting | start organizing | start writing notes | start writing notes | bring images to class with some preliminary analysis | |||||||
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Collecting Objects |
identify your favorite object | write short anecdotes on the object | write short anecdotes on the object | create a divergent, associative map for the object | Bring a favorite object to class with a divergent map | |||||||
| Final Project | 1-page brief ready in class | Comments (from Linda) on brief returned to class members [summary notes] | Initial resource planning + Revised plan (optional) | Finalized plan + research started | Field Research in action | Field Research in action | Field Research in action / Brainstorming for creative solution | Research continued + Creative solution confirmed | Research + analysis | Analysis + production | Analysis + production + presentation brainstorming | |
| M1/Sep 14 | M2/Sep 21 | M3/Sep 28 | M4/Oct 5 | M5/Oct 12 | M6/Oct 19 | M7/Oct 26 | M8/Nov 2 | M9/Nov 9 | M10/Nov 16 | M11/Nov 23 | M12/Nov 30 | |
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