Research Summary The project Anatomy of an Encounter was driven by the idea that we should not take for granted that we already know what ‘encounters’ are. What does ‘meeting’ another person — with a different cultural or disciplinary background — mean? How much of an...
https://player.vimeo.com/video/545120719?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479
Kyra's video-project can be found at https://vimeo.com/538567489. The password is: anatomy
Here the video which came out of Mattijs' experimentation with a two minute video clip.
Amsterdam team: Kyra Sacks, Mattijs Van de Port, Damianos Zisimou. Encounters are at the heart of every ethnographic project: anthropologists no longer claim to be speaking about the other (define the other in his/her otherness; know the other). They study what occurs...
Here is another glimpse from our practice. Colours! Colour patterns! Our video fragments are translated into a number of colours. Do they affect the way we perceive an encounter? What is their role in understanding what a recorded encounter produces?
Kyra Sacks, Mattijs Van de Port, Damianos Zisimou Still from clip by Damianos Zisimou For this project two key words stand out. ENCOUNTER and UNDERSTANDING. Ethnography has greatly invested in the idea of the encounter. ‘Intersubjectivity’ has become the key to the...