On 23 November 2021, during the 12th Ethnofest in Athens, the Encounters project launched its first issue of an online editorial, through our partner Arts Cabinet's web space. This editorial presents experiences of encounters from our ongoing explorations in this...
Content, tryouts 2020-21
Fragments.
I was planning to upload the power point I couldn’t show in my presentation but for some reason I think that these diagrams bring us a bit closer just because they are handwritten. (let me know if you feel the same) So I start recording myself during video calls and...
Anatomy of an encounter II
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?
commuINty II
'When the times darkenwill there be singing even then?There will be singing even then.Of how the times darken'. by Bertolt Brecht, from Collected Translations (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996) by Edwin Morgan -While Stavros, Zoi, Nantia, Kostas, Michail, Pepi,...
Weaving as caring
Thinking about these two quotes from Tim Ingold and Otti Berger. In this workshop we want to explore through the act of weaving the following considerations: “We should not thus think of the properties of materials as attributes. Rather, they are histories...
Invitation to an Awe Walk – sent with love from the Tucson Team
Dear Encounters participants, The Tucson team is looking forward to presenting some updates about our project on the 17th. In preparation, we write today to invite you all to participate in a small homework task to prepare for an exercise we are planning. Over...
Dmitrii Naidenok – videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1q7fE05PSo&ab_channel=DmitriiNaidenok Live captured and processed via video-synthesizer at Darwin state museum in Moscow 2018, (Raketa, Ozero.School) https://vimeo.com/477363692 Video-synthesizer processed scanning of a green leaf....
Encountering Awe – December Awe Walk Tryouts (Team Tucson)
Jennie Gubner For our encounters project, our team is exploring awe walks, specifically thinking about how we can use artistic/creative modalities to document and share experiences of awe walks in ways that might encourage others to engage in what has been shown to be...
Understanding from the inside out
On 13 January 2021, in the year's first Agder team meeting, we set out on the voyage to to gain more substance for our part of the project - i.e. the 'tryout' dimension. We wanted to start by each sharing some material that spoke to us in relation our overall theme of...