DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGIES
Taking part in the screening and forum in Digital Anthropologies #4 & #6
Taking part in organization of Digital Anthropologies #7 & #9
together with
Côme Ledésert – Filmmaker and practice-led doctoral researcher, CREAM, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Nadine Wanono – Anthropologist and filmmaker, tenure researcher at Institut des Mondes africains, CNRS, Paris, France
Christoph Brunner – Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory at Leuphana University Lüneburg and Director of the ArchipelagoLab for Transversal Practices, Lüneburg, Germany
Pascal Leclercq – President of les Écrans de la Liberté (Screens of Freedom)
Mariana Marcassa – Artist and researcher, postdoctoral fellow at SenseLab and Acts of Listening Lab, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Jol Thomson – Artist, collaborator, and researcher, CREAM, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Michael Westrich – Cultural anthropologist, artistic researcher, and journalist, Berlin, Germany
Digital Anthropologies #7
Ausland, Berlin, Germany
26-29 August 2019
What are the conditions for the event to shift from competition to alliance? If we do not wish to compete, we desire to share research processes in a mode of togetherness that offers a gift of potentiality for better living and knowing beyond their capture for capitalist value extraction. What if your work could relay and resonate with the affects at play, contributing by leaving traces that activate the ecologies of the event across times and spaces?FEELING THE URGENCIESThe seventh edition of Digital Anthropologies constructs a sociality in its own right. We believe that the experience of an artistic or research process can especially be felt in the collective making of the event and in the doing of a series of minor gestures, within, between and beyond the sum of the individual research processes.
Digital Anthropologies #7 is a space of experimentation, where propositions from students, artists and researchers resonate and relay with the caring gesture. The caring gesture is what we will explore, not only in each proposition but also as a minor process with the event. How to care and to be taken care of? Both gestures are yet to experience, collectively, but one condition for them to emerge is to feel the urgency that makes us gather during five days.What is urgent to transmit, share, listen, resonate and relay? The urgencies are not so much to be produced or formalised than listened to and composed with. The urgencies are not necessarily an emotion or a thought to be identified but rather an immanent process to experience. And more generally, the urgencies don’t usually emerge as known objects but often as a multiplicity of more-than corporeal perceptions, beyond the human mind and body as we know it.
To develop a collective feeling for the urgency of the event, protocols take place daily to keep pre-accelerating, as it already happened before the event. Because feeling the urgency doesn’t lie in the organisational aspects of the event, daily protocols are here to help us feel the limits of structuring the event and rather express the urgency in its spontaneous, free and radical share.
Digital Anthropologies #9
on the countryside near Berlin, DE
22-28 August 2022
Call for artistic peace makers
Opening a passage with the silent worldsLoud are the bombs over Ukraine. This is the unbearable noise of the strictly human. Loud are the bombs over any territories. This is the abomination of the nothing else but human. Wars raise drastically the level of noise, polluting our modes of attention, poisoning our reason, shrinking the peripheries where our desires sustain, erupt, rest.
Loud are the mercenaries, the soldiers, the politicians, the public figures and the diplomatic bodies, revealing their blindness when aiming at their target rather than opening up and making room for quieter, minor voices in the deliberation process, for the citizens of all the multiple worlds.
As artists, researchers, comrades and companions, what matters more than ever are the silent qualities of our practices, research processes, democratic choices. Silence is not emptiness, but the more-than sonic quality that shifts the mode of attention towards the potentiality of peace. Silence becomes the main passage towards a desirable future. Democratic values, art making and research endeavours are threatened: how does a more- than-human assembly feel, think, act silently?
Opening a passage with the silent worlds needs to be invented, one allowing movement rather than restricting it, one making feel secure anybody who feels threatened to find and seek refuge rather than killing it.
Never is diplomacy so urgent and necessary than at the outbreak of a major military conflict such as the one provoked by the Russian invasion. But never has diplomacy failed us so terribly again and again in the long run, revealing the necessity for immediating assemblies, multiplying gatherings and minor socialities to erupt along a series of passages with the silent worlds.
Digital Anthropologies #7 was an invitation to feel the urgencies, Digital Anthropologies #8 explored the analogue as regenerative setting, opening a space for a model of alternative pedagogy. Digital Anthropologies #9 is a start in the middle, with the urgencies, towards a desirable future where thinking, feeling, learning, playing are indiscernible.
This year, Digital Anthropologies #9 takes place on the countryside near Berlin, DE, 22-26 August 2022. We invite you to introduce yourself by submitting materials of all kinds that will be transformed with silence, into collective gestures. During five days, we will experiment and leave traces of what a desirable future could look like and share our processes as an exhibition at the alte Brennerei in Zernikow.