[Frameworks] NEW VISIONS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM, ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY March 30 – 31, 2012 Salle de cinéma musée du quai Branly, Paris

[Kathryn Ramey]

hello frameworkers,

For anyone in Paris who is interested in the interconnections between experimental film, art and anthropology, there is a symposium at the Musee du quai Branly March 30-31 that I will be a part of.  I have two different presentations, one on my film 'Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION' on Friday night and one on the animations of Robert Ascher on Saturday.  The description is below and the full program can be found here:

http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/programmation/scientific-events/symposiums.html

NEW VISIONS: EXPERIMENTAL FILM, ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY
March 30 – 31, 2012
Salle de cinéma
musée du quai Branly, Paris

Organisers: Caterina Pasqualino (CNRS), Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo) in collaboration with
the Research and Education Department of the musée du quai Branly and the support of Laboratoire
d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales (LAIOS-IIAC) and of the Centre de
coopération franco-norvégienne en sciences sociales et humaines.

How can we broaden the fields of observation of reality? Contemporary art and experimental film are
possible ways in that they disturb our assumptions and allow a distance for the observer. Tools or
processes used by visual artists and filmmakers - pen camera, looping, fast or slow movements, multiple
screens, networking surveillance cameras - question our understanding of the world. These news visions
encourage the observers as anthropologists, to change the shape of their stories.

During the 1940s and 1950s, artist and ethnographer Maya Deren researched the practical and
theoretical implications of the filmed image. She suggested that it is not enough to save the appearances
of the world through film. The filmmakers must subject themselves to restore their double vision through
multiple sensory experiences. Similarly, other artists and anthropologists argue that the optical
perception of the world is not sufficient, as one has to consider how its formal qualities mingle with
acoustic, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory sensations.

The representation of lived time is another field of investigation. Anthropologists, who wonder how to
stay closer to the complexity of lived time in the field, look to offer new forms of restitution, while
experimental artists, who struggle against the compression of narrative time, set up elements for a new
foundation of an increased sensitivity to the real. Anthropology, art and experimental film question our
perception. To see is also to understand. This conference attempts to renew visual testing protocols in
order to amplify our understanding of the world.
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