Evocative Encounters: An Exploration of Artistic Practice as a Visual Research Method

Mjaaland, Thera

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“…Ultimately, the visual agenda presented differs from most approaches to environmental and sustainability communication in that the production processes are concerned with invoking questions and imagination rather than making particular claims or constructing particular issues. To borrow from Mjaaland (2009), the images represent "evocative encounters. "…”

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Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda

Thomsen¹

2015

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ABSTRACT. I explore the potential utility of visual imagery to engage viewers in connecting ways with dynamic social-ecological contexts. Constructing photographs in response to the mass stranding of birds (shearwaters) on the east coast of Australia in 2013, I demonstrate the potential of wildlife and landscape photography to represent the impacts of environmental change at personal, relational, spatial, and temporal scales simultaneously. In so doing, I suggest that the production and interpretation of photographs can lead to responses that: (1) foster attentive forms of vision in familiar contexts; (2) provoke reflexive self-examination and critiques of broader, complex systems; (3) develop emotional connections with those impacted by social-ecological change; and (4) provide a foundation for precautionary behavioral change in uncertain contexts. Consequently, 'seeing' is reconceptualized as questioning, not believing, and as a valuable contribution to learning for sustainability and resilience.

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Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda

Thomsen¹

2015

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“…Photo by Thera Mjaaland/BONO Ethical Guidelines and the Implicit Presumption of Inequality 13 Since my first visit to Ethiopia photography has played a major role in my interaction with people, not least in what came to be my study area in north-western Tigray. In the interventionist-based co-photographing that evolved, as the photographing anthropologist I was also repositioned from a detached observer using photography for objective description and the production of evidence to a social actor in an evocative encounter (see also Mjaaland 2009). It was this repositioning together with the openendedness of artistic exploration that enabled me to "see" the subtle mediation related to the layered socio-cultural dynamics in this context of exposure and containment, visibility and invisibility.…”

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Co-photographing in North-western Tigray, Ethiopia

Mjaaland¹

2017

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“…Karena kalau dicatat didepan mereka mungkin bisa mempengaruhi naturalitas kejadian dan persepsi subjek yang diteliti." Tapi kehadiran teknologi informasi mentransformasikan cara kita melakukan etnografi atau membuat catatan etnografi (Zuev, 2010;Srinivas, 2010;Williams, 2009;Mjaaland, 2009;Pype, 2009;Morton, 2009 Penggunaan video kamera sudah lama dilakukan dalam penelitian sosial. Akan tetapi baru tahun 1980-an video sebagai bagian dari penelitian baru mulai disebut dalam tulisan etnografinya.…”

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Video Etnografi: Pengalaman Penelitian Sosial Dengan Video Kamera Di Sulawesi Selatan

Alimi¹

2012

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Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengeksplorasi bagaimana video kamera dapat membantu focus pikiran peneliti, mempertajam naluri etnografi, memperbagus hubungan dengan masyarakat dan memperbagus laporan penelitian. Penelitian dilakukan di Sulawesi Selatan selama satu tahun dengan menggunakan handycam Sony DCR-TRV27, handycam Sony yang dilengkapi dengan fitur screen dan layar pengintip untuk siang hari. Kecanggihan teknologi kamera bertemu dengan kekayaan kehidupan social di Sulawesi Selatan, sebagaimana terefleksikan paling baik dalam upacara pernikahan. Video kamera secara sistematik mempunyai tempat yang penting dalam system knowledge/power local. Melakukan hal ini, artikel ini tidak hanya mendiskusikan tentang penggunaan kamera di praktek etnografis, tetapi juga mendiskusikan dunia sosial yang memungkinkan kamera mempunyai peran yang sangat penting didalamnya. In this article, the author explores how a video camera can refocus researcher’s mind, sharpens ethnographic senses, and improve relation with the community. This sophisticated feature of technology has met with the vibrancy of social life in South Sulawesi, best reflected in wedding ceremonies, placing camera nicely in the existing local system of knowledge/power. The research was done for one year using Sony handycam Sony DCR-TRV27. The study is drawn from a year fieldwork experience in South Sulawesi. This article does not only discuss the use of camera in an ethnographic practice, but also discusses the social world that has enabled the camera to have a central place in it.

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Evocative Encounters: An Exploration of Artistic Practice as a Visual Research Method

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda

Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda

Co-photographing in North-western Tigray, Ethiopia

Video Etnografi: Pengalaman Penelitian Sosial Dengan Video Kamera Di Sulawesi Selatan

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