Images in this post thanks to Indigenous Video Makers of the Southern Frontera Project CIESAS Sureste IN the town of San Cristobal de las Casas there is an astounding wealth of activities that are combining practices of collaborative ethnography (that is people documenting their own cultures and community, rather that this work being done...
Sophie Haviland is my sister and she has a great new website, www.sophiehaviland.com! Such a plug might be seen as shameless nepotism, but this site is a window into a whole world of collaborative art projects which most people will not know about, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in international collaborative...
Community Prophets has been getting a lot of press this month for their Voices from the Cape project, which worked with children in the Arukun community in Cape York Queensland in a participatory video, animation and music project in 2008.
Over the past weeks I have had a number of conversations with Yang Kun, a visiting research fellow at the Research School of the Humanities at the Australian National University, from Yunan in China. He has been involved with Yunfest, an independant documentary film festival in China, as well as in Participatory Visual Education...