Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century
Rural Sustainability in the Urban Century
XV World Congress of Rural Sociology 19-22 July 2022 Cairns Australia
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This research initiative takes film, art and exhibition making as a means of engaging communities and the wider public with questions around global transformation and social creativity. It draws together themes of collaboration, new public anthropologies, material culture, visual culture, and art as ethnography.Working at the intersections of the digital, material and visual culture, researchers in this group are variously involved in film making and other forms of image-based work, building curatorial partnerships with museums and cultural organisations, and using digital media to expand ethnographic methods and insights.
The program is closely associated with The Cairns Institute's Anthropological Laboratory for Tropical Audiovisual Research (ALTAR) which runs public film screenings that explore the intersections of ethnographic film, Indigenous media and experimental film. A key element of this research group involves an on-going collaboration between JCU and the Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University in Denmark, led by Associate Professor Jennifer Deger and Professor Ton Otto, both of whom bring a strong emphasis on practice-led research methods involving film-making, new media and/or exhibition as research method.