SCREENING REPRESENTATION—short-circuits

Abstract

Expanded Visions—A New Anthropology of the Moving Image (Routledge, 2021) Book discussion "Expanded Visions: Arnd Schneider in conversation with Theo Barth". Moderator: Ali Onat Türker Place: Library in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Date: 15.06.2022 Time: 12:00-14:00 In his book, Arnd Schneider argues for a new anthropology of the moving image, bringing together a significant range of essays on time-based media in the contemporary arts and anthropology. Arnd Schneider builds on recent attempts to develop more experimental formats and engages with debates on epistemologies of ethnography, relational aesthetics, materiality, sensory ethnography, and observational and participatory cinema. He critically revisits Baudrillard’s idea of the simulacrum and the hyperreal, engages with new media theory, and elaborates on the potential of the Writing Culture critique for moving image practices bordering art and anthropology. Schneider further engages with film production ethnography and the current decolonial debate. Theodor Barth applies the principles used to study the moving image, featuring in the book, to develop a reading of the book itself, based on postproduction on an iPAD. An attempt of intervention across the fields of visual anthropology, film and media studies and visual studies. Visuals: Theodor Barth with Enrique Guadarrama Solis. The conversation took place with an experimental seating pattern, in which the audience are onstage and part of the floor of the conversation. This seating pattern is part of an experimental setup called the learning theatre. In the context of the flat screen in the Library space, the setup staged a situation of watching TV together. Managed by Ali Onat Türker.

Credits to the KHiO library (Kristine Jakobsen) for hosting this event.