ENCOUNTERS
– Through art, ethnography and pedagogy

Erasmus+ strategic partnership 2019–2022.

The main goal of Encounters is to collaboratively develop critical methodologies for student research at the intersection between the practices of ethnography, arts, and education.

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ENCOUNTERS - Latest Blog Posts

Issue # 1 of Encounters editorial launched November 2021

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 project, yet in the situation of lockdowns, confinement and distance. What did encounters look like […]

Workshop invitation; “A walking proposition”

The Agder team of the project Encounters – Through art, ethnography and pedagogy is inviting to a workshop through walking. The workshop Introduces the a/r/tographich working mode of propositions (Lee et al., 2019), and participants are invited to carry out the proposition “Walk on borders” (Illeris, in press. See text below). The workshop will start […]

Ethnofest workshop : returning the words of ethnographers

ORGANIZERS: Mattijs van de Port, Damianos Zisimou WHAT: bringing the words of ethnographers back to the ethnos WHEN: Wednesday 24/11, from 12.00-18.00. [NB: new time to avoid the rain – starts at 12!] WHERE: starting at Grigoris Café in Ippokratous street BRING: filmcamera, microphone, tripod, walking shoes REGISTRATION: send a mail to m.p.j.vandeport@uva.nl TEAMS: we […]

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, Kiki and me try to capture the days that pass-

commuINty

Stepping into Going out of my place, out in the city, out where the wind blows, it’s December, already. Going out into the silence (‘the streets aren’t for dreaming now’), I fly over. I see the night birds hiding under the passer by’s coat, cold cold moon. Behind the street lamp there is a dawn of […]

my neck pain is collective

A tragic yet whimsical reading of neck pain as the new pandemic between festival organizers, festival audiences and people in corona times. An informal introduction to my preliminary research objectives. Physical pain of writer during quarantine is physical pain of festival organizer is physical pain of researcher during quarantine is physical pain of human under […]

Project News

Issue # 1 of Encounters editorial launched November 2021

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 project, yet in the situation of lockdowns, confinement and distance. What did encounters look like […]

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