Description
There is a tension between the personal, multilayered, multisensory, and embodied nature of remembering a place, and the ways that such recollections are mobilised for collective reframing of the past, present, and the future. In places that people render as important – for example, where people’s significant life events have unfolded – this tension becomes especially salient. Based on our ongoing visual ethnographic work with communities affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, this workshop explores how the different textures of personal place memories can be care-fully shared while ensuring the privacy, dignity, and well-being of those who carry them. In this workshop, we will draw on works such as Georges Perec's Les Lieux and Situationist International’s dérive as inspirations to explore collage filmmaking as a mode of inquiry into this space.Workshop participants will create their own collage films by combining visual elements they encounter in different places to depict their textural memories of a place of personal resonance. The workshop will provide opportunities for critical discussions around relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as artistic experimentations. Suwon will serve as the focal site for unexpected encounters to explore and gather visual fragments, which are then integrated into a collage film illuminating the affective textures of place memory in ways that attend to ethical imperatives of care and collaboration.
| Period | 25 Jun 2025 → 28 Jun 2025 |
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| Event title | International Visual Sociology Association Conference |
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | International |