Thread by @culanth

Up next we have "Distributed Multimodalities: Ethnographic Experiments in Memory and Performance" ·
"Multimodalidades distribuidas: Experimentos etnográficos en memoria y performance"

w/ @trgenovese @alchemyburns @visual_gonthros @fukudapero @nasrat @js_rubin

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"Slowly I begin the process of transformation... I'm not sure what the gathering of anthropologists will make of me or my performance in what I am calling #Dragthropology" - paraphrase of @nasrat
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"With performance of living history, these reeneactors conduct public and private reverent rituals that perform a continuity of distributed trans-historical solidarity in order to evoke and honour the memory of their fictive kin political ancestors" - @trgenovese
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https://twitter.com/trgenovese/status/1258595632677175298

"Having brought drag in to the classroom, I began to develop it as an interventionist art. Through a set of classroom experiments I began to drag Foucault. The idea of #Dragthropology began to grow." - @nasrat
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"I'm a junior scholar and as I develop dragthropology I want to explore how to employ queer performance through burlesque, drag, and other genderfuckery to transform, challenge, and rupture theory" - @nasrat
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@arjshankar asks the panelists about the disruption of linear time & space for this multimodal piece: "We liked the instruction about doing the panels either one after the other or any other way. We went with the 'any other way' option. We liked the exploration". #Distribute2020

"We like the temporal blurring where we're working in present and past. You are tumbled in to the scene. The past and present aren't linear concepts. We really embraced this multimodal presentation--in content and in form" - @trgenovese (paraphrase)
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@js_rubin talks about the importance of the 'fuckery' and what that concept means for this panel. @mayanthileilani follows up by arguing that 'fuckery' is not random, especially in the case of #Drag, that this can also be a method. Fuckery is perceived as random, adds @arjshankar

@anandspandian discussing Crumpled Paper Boat as potentially a 'volume of fragments': "But we didn't do it, that was too experimental for us". What is this commitment to discrete, successive pieces? What habits are we prepared to relinquish?
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