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Dear colleagues,

We invite paper proposals for our panel *Rhythm, sight and sound: work
in times of uncertainty* (P22) at the RAI Film Festival virtual conference.

March 25–28, 2021, Bristol (UK), virtual conference

Short abstract:

Skilled practices, routinized action and work provide temporal
orientations and produce familiar sensory experiences. In moments of
uncertainty, however, such habitual engagements are challenged. Focusing
on sight, sound and movement we ask what practices and rhythms (re-)form
in relation to crisis.

Long abstract:

Skilled practices, routinised action and work provide temporal
orientations and produce familiar sensory experiences and engagements
with the world. Their rhythmic repetitions bring forth difference,
bridge planned and situated actions, and mark moments of movement and
pause. Ultimately, they allow individuals and groups to apprehend the
future. In moments of crisis and uncertainty, however, such habitual
sensory and rhythmic engagements are challenged and might become
fragmented, affecting individual and social identities, relations and
trajectories. By taking these sensual disturbances and temporal
frictions as a starting point of inquiry, the panel explores how work
(in a broad sense) and its embodied practices are experienced and
challenged. Sight, sound, movement and rhythm, which are strongly
connected and usually guide working processes, might need sensual and
bodily (re)adjustments. Focusing on sight, sound and movement we ask
what forms of (new) practices and rhythms are being (re-)produced and
emerge in relation to crisis. How does improvisation and creativity
provide agentivity and orientation in uncertain circumstances? How does
the absence or the arrhythmicity of action (waiting, unemployment,
ruined landscapes etc.) shape these processes and experiences and how do
they inform and translate into audiovisual production and
representation? How do visuality and sound relate to each other in this
respect? And how can we audio-visually approach the
sensuous-experiential dimension of work in moments of crisis? We invite
empirical, theoretical or methodological submissions in textual, visual,
audio or multimodal formats that address the question of work, its
sensory engagement and rhythmicity in times of uncertainty.

Please submit your paper proposals here:

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/raiff2021#9508

For an overview of the conference see:
https://raifilm.org.uk/visual-anthropology-conference/

*Deadline for submission is November 15, 2020*

Best,

Sandro Simon (University of Cologne) twitter: @SandroBSimon
Valerie Hänsch (University of Bayreuth / LMU Munich) twitter: @Val_Haensch
Ian M. Cook (Central European University / Open Education) twitter:
@ianmickcook

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