BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news236@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220302T084749 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220302T161500 SUMMARY:ONLINE: Remembering visually. How pictures instigate processes of r emembering. DESCRIPTION:If you would like to join the session\, please contact s.burri@ unibas.ch.\\r\\n\\r\\nPictures do not ‘bring back’ memories – they r ather instigate processes of remembering.\\r\\nPhotos taken years\, someti mes decades ago are not mere mirrors of the past. They may depict people\, events or landscapes of the past\, but they are also part of the present when people look at them\, take them in their hands\, turn them\, show the m to others. ‘Watching’ pictures is\, as Arielle Azoulay has claimed\, a multilayered practice\, which is deeply entangled with the present and the past. It testifies to sedimented experience and to what the people wh o watch the pictures make of it when they are watching them.\\r\\nIt is no t a new insight that pictures have a life on their own\, that they seem to want something from us\, the spectators. And it is neither new that spect ators can and do engage in many ways with pictures. Exploring this tension is a challenge for everybody who does ethnographic research in cultural s ettings where other forms of mediality prevail. How do people remember whe n they watch pictures of people\, events\, and things past? This question is the thread that ran through my fieldwork conducted in January and Febr uary 2022 in northern Côte d’Ivoire. After an interruption of two years \, it renewed empirical research conducted of the SNSF project “Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s”\, which had begun shortly bef ore the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.\\r\\n\\r\\nKeywords: picture\, im age\, remembering\, photography\, mediality X-ALT-DESC:

If you would like to join the session\, please contact s.burr i@unibas.ch.

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Pictures do not ‘bring back’ memories – they rather instigate processes of remembering.

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Photos taken years\, so metimes decades ago are not mere mirrors of the past. They may depict peop le\, events or landscapes of the past\, but they are also part of the pres ent when people look at them\, take them in their hands\, turn them\, show them to others. ‘Watching’ pictures is\, as Arielle Azoulay has claim ed\, a multilayered practice\, which is deeply entangled with the present and the past. It testifies to sedimented experience and to what the people who watch the pictures make of it when they are watching them.< /p>\n

It is not a new insight that pictures have a life on their own\, t hat they seem to want something from us\, the spectators. And it is neithe r new that spectators can and do engage in many ways with pictures. Explor ing this tension is a challenge for everybody who does ethnographic resear ch in cultural settings where other forms of mediality prevail. How do peo ple remember when they watch pictures of people\, events\, and things past ? This question is the thread that ran through my fieldwork conducted in January and February 2022 in northern Côte d’Ivoire. After an interrupt ion of two years\, it renewed empirical research conducted of the SNSF pro ject “Life in the West African Savannah since the 1970s”\, which had b egun shortly before the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.

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Key words: picture\, image\, remembering\, photography\, mediality

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