ELSEWHERES
Jonathan Echeverri (Universidad de Antioquia) & Brenda I. Steinecke Soto (Fundación Espacio-Arte)
A man sits on dried grass, looks downhill and meditates. His journey started long time ago and far from this landscape. We see what he sees: a road, a few farmhouses and trees. In turn, his gaze and wonderings remain unknown to us. 2) In a different setting, an urban one this time, another man walks uphill and reaches the avenue to run into a policeman who asks for his ID. As no papers are with him, the man starts to moan and mime. The policeman assumes the man is dumb and allows him to resume his walk uphill. Drawing from the roamings of West African travelers in and out of the African continent, this presentation reflects on two dimensions/moments of the journey: the act of crossing borders and that of desiring movement while being stay put. National borders and travel documents are part of the bureaucratic machinery that seeks to control the vital force inherent to human movement. They relent and obstruct the movement of underprivileged travelers. Desiring movement, in turn, is a force that imbues these travelers with a stubborn will to seek new horizons. This presentation explores the emdodying and dissembodying effects of these forces through image and movement, appealing to their affective dimension beyond words.
ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING & PERFORMANCE
In collaboration with Jonathan Echeverri
University of Antioquia, Department of Anthropology
Semester II, 2017
This course was dedicated to learn, reflect and practice some specific features of the ethnographic writing and to translate a concrete idea or image departing from the ethnographic research into a performaative situation. We read and discussed text examples and engaged with several writing excercises which were focussed on generating a specific text at the end of the semester. In parallel, we start every class with body related practices. In the middle of the course we introduced the historical relationship between anthropology and performance and start a process toward a physical materialisation of some ideas or crucial images of the writing or the experiences underlaying them. This materialisation turned at the end of the course into short performative presentations with different formats (performance, lectura performance, creation of objects, participatory experience, etc).
In collaboration with Jonathan Echeverri
University of Antioquia, Department of Anthropology
Semester II, 2017
This course was dedicated to learn, reflect and practice some specific features of the ethnographic writing and to translate a concrete idea or image departing from the ethnographic research into a performaative situation. We read and discussed text examples and engaged with several writing excercises which were focussed on generating a specific text at the end of the semester. In parallel, we start every class with body related practices. In the middle of the course we introduced the historical relationship between anthropology and performance and start a process toward a physical materialisation of some ideas or crucial images of the writing or the experiences underlaying them. This materialisation turned at the end of the course into short performative presentations with different formats (performance, lectura performance, creation of objects, participatory experience, etc).
ANTROPOLOGÍA ESPACIO Y TIEMPO
In collaboration with Jonathan Echeverri
University of Antioquia, Department of Anthropology
Semester I, 2017
This course was focused on discussing and reflecting upon the ways other cultures approach towards what we define as space and time. For this mean, the course started evaluating Nietzsche´s critic on how concepts are built and handled in western cultures. It was followed by the review of space and time related concepts in Anthropology such as: heterotopia, liminality, migration, adventure, desplacement, leisure, velocity and errance, among others.
As a complementary methodology to writing, there was a performance component which was intended to offer an approach to a different language for modelling the experiences compiled through the etnographies. With the students, we could develope seven short and precise works during the semester, based on their etnographic exercises.
In collaboration with Jonathan Echeverri
University of Antioquia, Department of Anthropology
Semester I, 2017
This course was focused on discussing and reflecting upon the ways other cultures approach towards what we define as space and time. For this mean, the course started evaluating Nietzsche´s critic on how concepts are built and handled in western cultures. It was followed by the review of space and time related concepts in Anthropology such as: heterotopia, liminality, migration, adventure, desplacement, leisure, velocity and errance, among others.
As a complementary methodology to writing, there was a performance component which was intended to offer an approach to a different language for modelling the experiences compiled through the etnographies. With the students, we could develope seven short and precise works during the semester, based on their etnographic exercises.
