Sense and Sensibility: Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab
POV, Fall 2013, no. 91, pp. 24-27
Adam Nayman writes about Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), their approach to combining anthropology, art and cinema. "SEL's mission statement [is] to work against the conventions of broadcast journalism and "art that is not deeply infused by the real"" (p.24) Nayman also reviews a number of films produced by SEL.
ITEM 2013.125 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Leviathan – Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL)
Leviathan – Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Leviathan – Véréna Paravel
Sweetgrass – Ilsa Barbash
Sweetgrass – Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Foreign Parts – Véréna Paravel
Foreign Parts – J.P Sniadecki
The Yellow Bank – J.P Sniadecki
People's Park – J.P Sniadecki
People's Park – Libbie Dina Cohn
Monsoon-Reflections – Stephanie Spray
Manakamana – Stephanie Spray
Manakamana – Pacho Velez
Materials Recovery Facility – Ernest Karel
Swiss Mountain Transport Systems – Ernest Karel