See this recently posted musing on participation and collaboration on Savage Minds blog… It pertains specifically to social and digital media technologies and the resulting communities, but presents an interesting typology… Any thoughts from others on the nature of participation and collaboration in media/arts/ethnographic contexts?
Check out a cool project that is using participatory video making to link communities in the western desert and the western suburbs of Sydney. The Stories Project – hosted by Curious Works in collaboration with Martu Media has brought together young film makers from the western desert and refugees living in western Sydney to...
Urban Theatre Projects (UTP), originally founded as Death Defying Theatre (way back in the ‘80’s) is a professional theatre company based in Bankstown (Sydney, NSW). Their tag line is ‘Stories of Contemporary Life‘ and they make new theatre works that reflect such stories and images of contemporary Australian life, with a focus on people...
December ’09 brings to fruition two exhibitions about the interesections of ethnographic and art making practices. In Philidelphia USA, Ethnographic Terminalia opens on December 4th at the Metafactory, and on the other side of the Pacific ocean Interventions – experiments between art and ethnography is being held from 9 to 11 December at Macquarie University...
We are looking for projects and artists that work in ways that bring together collaborative art and collaborative ethnography and documentary to contribute information and works from their practice to the Side by Side Gallery. See the information below…. Please distribute this information to your friends and other people and groups who might be...
Estamos buscando proyectos y artistas que trabajan con arte colaborativo y el etnografìa y documentaciòn para contribuir informacìon y trabajo creativo a la galeria Side by Side (Lado a Lado en español)… Ver la informacìon abajo… Por favor distribuir este informacìon a tus amigos y cual quier persona o grupo que puenden ser interesados.
In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out – Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at...
If you are interested in the intersection of arts and politics, arts activism and theatre, or even just interesting grassroots and community movements in the Americas, check out the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In 2008 this institute opened a centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chipas, in collaboration with Fortaleza de...
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...