Friday 9 May 2025, 9am – 5pm
Radcliffe Humanities
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
At a time of extraordinary challenges to the university as a social institution, we gather to discuss the role of video in sustaining our research practices and collaborations.
What are the methods and techniques by which we activate video as a form of thought and knowledge? How do processes of video production, editing, and analysis structure research processes and support relationships between academia and communities outside the university? Does video still have critical, decolonial, or even revolutionary potential through its displacement of logocentrism and its capacity for entanglement? Can audiovisuality point the way to more embodied and emplaced ways of knowing and living? What happens to video in a digital world that is increasingly defined by algorithms and platformisation? What is the status of truth and fiction, the documentary and the ethnographic, in a time of rapidly growing “AI” image generation?
Visiting Scholar Ben Spatz will introduce the Journal of Embodied Research, an open access journal from Open Library of Humanities that publishes video articles.
Two roundtables will address the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of videographic entanglement today, with participants from the Ruskin School of Art and from the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography.
This event is supported by the Performance Research Hub.
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS
Oreet Ashery
Paul Basu
Jen DeNike
Paola Esposito
Eiko Soga
Ilka Vari-Lavoisier
SCHEDULE
9:00 – 10:00
Welcome with Coffee and Tea
10:00 – 10:30
Introduction to Journal of Embodied Research
10:45 – 11:45
Roundtable Discussion 1
12:15 – 13:15
Roundtable Discussion 2
13:15 – 14:15
Catered Lunch
14:30 – 17:00 @ St Luke’s Chapel
Screenings from Journal of Embodied Research
PROGRAMME OF JER SCREENINGS
Falk Heinrich and Thomas Wolsing. “To Be a Work Means to Set Up a World: Into the Woods with Heidegger.” JER 2.1 (2019): 19:27. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.13
Nilüfer Ovalıoğlu Gros. “Carrying the Nest: (Re)writing History Through Embodied Research.” JER 2.1 (2019): 23:30. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.23
Melissa da Silva Ferreira, Lucy-Lou Marino, Gold Ray Martin, and Todd Roosevelt Martin. “In-Between: Children as Performers.” JER 4.1 (2021): 21:25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.81
Rania Lee Khalil. “Sinai: Tourism, Colonialism, and Sea.” JER 4.1 (2021): 24:40. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.85
Kyle Barrett, Ilona Krawczyk, and Charlotta Grimfjord Cederblad. “Three Illuminated Videos.” JER 4.2 (2021): 29:33. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/jer.92
Marina Souza Lobo Guzzo and Mateus Guzzo. “Letters to the Landscape (or an Alphabet in Ruins).” JER 7.2 (2024): 17:25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.10464
Image credit: Still from Kyoung Mann Cho and Haeree Choi, “Breathing the Earth: Bodily Exploration of Relationality in Eco-rituals and Dances.” Journal of Embodied Research 7(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.9827