Uncovering Memory (eBook)

Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina

Tanja Sakota (Autor)

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2023 | Main
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-801-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. It is focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites.

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Each one of us comes with a history, a complex web of DNA and a library of information that shapes who we are and how we view the world. How can we use our own complexities not only to engage with one another but to build it for story content? As an artistic researcher, filmmaker and educator, Tanja Sakota has often thought how to bring this subjective experience into pedagogical practice. Using paired themes of memory and forgetting, segregation and migration, perpetrators and victims, Sakota travels along a timeline of memory as she takes us on a journey through South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina. Using a camera and short film techniques, she hosts several workshops focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites. The author sits at the core but the book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different participants using the camera to access and unveil personal interpretations of space and place. Questions that underpin the uncovering of memories are: How does one use a camera to unmask invisible memories hidden within sites? How does one remember events that one hasn't necessarily experienced? How does one use film to interrogate the past from the future present? As the journey evolves, workshop participants and readers alike enter into a conversation around practice-based research, autoethnography and film. Uncovering Memory is not a handbook offering a prescriptive method. Instead, it is a pedagogical text that offers an interactive approach for students and peers to consider, adapt or react to in their own teaching and learning practices. The narrative encourages readers to self-reflect as they explore their own memory using the camera and short film format as an engaging tool for research and knowledge production.

Inhalt

List of images Foreword – Cynthia Kros Acknowledgements Map of Africa and Europe PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING Chapter 1 Creating a context Chapter 2 Film as a research tool Chapter 3 Accessing memory through the visible and the invisible Chapter 4 Timelines and site-specific research Chapter 5 Working in parallel why the workshop process? PART I WORKING WITH STUDENTS: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Berlin Chapter 6 Decolonising the curriculum Chapter 7 Tropes of time workshop Chapter 8 Towards a future past workshop: a German perspective Chapter 9 Conversation with memory workshop Chapter 10 Memory through site-specific research: a discussion post-practice PART II WORKING WITH PEERS: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Chapter 11 Personal interpretations of political spaces Chapter 12 The past, relevance and readings Chapter 13 The politics of remembering workshop Chapter 14 Understanding personal, political and cultural memory Chapter 15 Point of view: a discussion post-practice PART III WORKING WITH MYSELF: Poland, Germany, Bosnia/Herzegovina, South Africa Chapter 16 Finding my voice Chapter 17 Autoethnography and remembering through the self Chapter 18 Excavating ghosts: Perpetrators and victims Chapter 19 My film Shattered Reflection Chapter 20 Looking at the reflections: a discussion post-practice MOVING FORWARD Chapter 21 Recognising artistic research as good practice Film credits Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2023
• Verlagsort: Johannesburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 9-11 • Architecture • Autoethnography • Curriculum • Decolonising the Curriculum • Film • film workshops • Heritage • History • interrogating the past • Memorial • memorialising • Memory • Monument • Pedagogy • Rwandan Genocide • short filmmaking facilitation • the Gulf War • the War on Terror • Visual Culture • Yugoslavia
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-801-0 / 1776148010
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-801-1 / 9781776148011