Contemporary Australian Aboriginal art can be argued to be one of the most well known examples of collaborative ethnographic practice using creative art – the multiple functions of works, the layers of inter and cross-cultural collaboration shaping the works, the underlying relationship of Aboriginal painting to story, culture and cultural expression – all qualities...
Recently published by Magabala Books is “Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon”, a collaborative ethnography of Bardi culture as enacted through the One Arm Point Community School Culture Program. One Arm Point is an Aboriginal community on the Dampier Penninsula, North West of Broome, Western Australia. The book draws on materials made out...
Checkout the newest offering from the Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans: “After a season of writing workshops on the backside of the Fair Grounds, the Neighborhood Story Project has produced an exhibition of open letters written by jockeys, trainers, grooms, hotwalkers, veterinarians and track employees… Each year, more than 700 workers arrive in...
Out of South Australia comes the newest incarnation of Big Stories Small Towns, a project in which resident film makers have made portrait films about people in the communities of Port Augusta, Murray Bridge and Raukkan. There are also some films made by community members themselves, these are well worth having a look at,...
Following on from the National Film Board of Canada’s desire to continue participatory film making into the digital age they have produced an ambitious participatory digital ethnography project called High Rise. NFB calls High Rise a 360 degree documentary – by which they mean it is an interactive documentary – a field growing in...
Have a look at the latest posting from the Stories Project - “Villawood Mums” is a powerful film telling the stories of the mothers of two young refugee film makers living in Sydney that contrasts the experience of the two women who arrived in Australia as refugees with their families, a decade apart. Nothing...
The United Houma Nation’s oral history poster project will debut at the Jean Lafitte Acadian Wetland Center (Thibadeaux, Louisiana, USA) on September 4, 2010 from 2:00-4:30 p.m. The project is a collaboration between the United Houma Nation’s tribal council, the University of New Orleans’ Neighborhood Story Project, and Side by Side Community Projects, Australia....
Side by Side Online Gallery is pleased to present the Stars of Bethlehem Exhibition. Stars of Bethlehem is a participatory video project that worked with young Palestinian refugees in camps in Bethlehem in 2007. This exhibition features 3 of the films made by young film makers during the project, representing their experiences and lives...
In Part 2 on Marie-Eve Leduc’s work with Participatory Video and her 2007 work running a PV project with 6 Palestinian youths in Bethlehem, Marie-Eve talks about her motivations and approach to PV and reflects on how her own identity as foreign facilitator may have influenced the direction of the youth’s films, despite efforts...
This is the first in what I hope will be a series about artists and practitioners who bring together collaborative ethnography and art. This first feature is about Participatory Video practitioner Marie-Eve Leduc. It is accompanied by an exhibition in Side by Side Online Galleries of 3 of the films made by young Palestinian...