CENTER  FOR  EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Hyper-Fictions/Hyper-Realism | 2021-2022 Theme

upcoming events

Mexican Psychotic

DEC 3 at 5PM EST
Affect Theatre

DEC 6 AT 5PM EST
Join us for our CEE Fellow Year-End Event "Mexican Psychotic ", an experimental film led by Ricardo Bracho, followed by a panel discussion with an exciting array of panelists on Dec 3rd at 5 pm.
Mexican Psychotic is an experimental video-in-progress on the life, art, and mythos of artist Martín Ramírez, who spent 30 years drawing beautiful works while incarcerated in California mental asylums. The film team includes Richardo Bracho as writer and director, Oludare Marcelle as lead editor/animator, Emily Dunlop as assistant editor, Nicholas Plante as assistant editor, and voiceover director. MORE
Join us for our CEE Fellow Year-End Event "Affect Theatre",  a presentation followed by a discussion led by Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti on Dec 6th at 5 pm. How does an ethnographer remain affected by worlds encountered after leaving the field of research? How does a theater maker build theatrical worlds from empirical research that conveys not only story, but also affective experiences? Affect Theatre is a thinking and acting space for experimenting with these questions. During this lecture presentations students will present brief theatrical episodes which they will then explore and analyze with spectators in a group....
​Responsive Roots: Vodou Beats Across the Waters

DEC 7 at 10am est

The Center for Experimental Ethnography and WXPN invite you to join us on Dec. 7 at 10am for a panel on Haitian Vodou inspirations and the roots of musical responses to social injustice with sensational Haitian and Haitian American artists  Manzè Beaubrun (Boukman Eksperyans), Malou Beauvoir (Malou Beauvoir), and Richard Morse (RAM and IMAMOU), in conversation with Dr. Camee Maddox-Wingfield. The event will be in English with simultaneous translation in Haitian Creole.

Register now, and get familiar with a playlist of their powerful grooves before the events, including music video selections Jou Nou Revolte (The Day We Revolt) by Boukman Eksperyans; Fèy (Herbs/Leaves) by RAM; and Nwaye (Drown) by Malou Beauvoir. LEARN MORE

RECENT EVENTS

November Third Thursday Event | Nov 11th 2021
​​During our November Third Thursday convening, Sosena Solomon and Peter Decherney and Michelle Y. Hurtubise discussed different forms of collaboration.  ​
Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Problem of Decolonizing Museums I Sept 20th- 23rd
 A Hybrid International Conference Co-Presented by the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Penn Museum. Catch some of the discussions on our vimeo page.

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October Third Thursday:
​(Un)usual Business |
Oct. 14th 2021
The CEE Community met with the Creators of (Un) Usual Business.

FALL FELLOWS COURSES

GETTING CAUGHT 

ANTH-588/401 FNAR-388/588 THAR-388/401 
with CEE Fellows Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano
This seminar is an exploration of and a cross pollination between research and narrative practices in theater and anthropology. By creating a dialogue between these disciplines in a laboratory format, we hope to pose questions and explore techniques in ways that will enrich our engagement with anthropological questions and performative production... 

SURREALISM IN THE AMERICAS 

ANTH 596/401 I GSWS-398/401 I LALS-596/401 I FNAR-596/401
with CEE Fellow Ricardo Bracho
Surrealism in the Americas is a workshop focused around the reading, writing and production of surrealist manifestos, plays, performances, poems and fiction. Taking the stance that surrealist literary production is at its base a left aesthetic engagement with form and politics, the course will survey North American, South American and Caribbean engagements with what is largely misunderstood as a European aesthetic and movement....

The Contest over "Indigeneity"

APRIL 23-April 30th

Curated and organized by Jenny Chio (jchio@usc.edu)
Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography...KEEP READING

REGGIE WILSON &
​"GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!!"

May 1, 2021 I 3:00 PM EST​

Curated and organized by Reggie Wilson, Spring 2021 Visiting Fellow, Center for Experimental Ethnography....KEEP READING

INTRODUCING THE VISUAL IDENTITIES iN ARTS AND DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP (VIAD)

The CEE  and The Visual Identities in Arts and Design Research Group at the University of Johannesburg are forging exciting transatlantic connections. Established in 2007, the VIAD research group is dedicated to deepening research around the overarching thematic of identity construction through forms of visual practice, visual culture and visual representation, and specifically in relation to African and Afrodiasporic histories and experiences. Learn more

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