dozandri mendoza
(they.she.elle.ella)
Participatory arts methods FOR
LINGUISTICS RESEARCH
rostra política, walking face, & collaborative arts for linguistics
LING 248 - Social justice in linguistics
department of linguistics,
university of california, santa barbara
phase 1: methods training
Pause and Photograph, Play and Participate at the Berlin Summer University of the Arts
Questions:
- What are the dialogics of walking face?
- What are the semiotic resources that make walking face “successful”?
- What are the interdiscursive historical links that re-emerge in this category?
phase 1: IN REFLECTIon
Pause and Photograph, Play and Participate at the Berlin Summer University of the Arts
phase 1: IN REFLECTIon
Pause and Photograph, Play and Participate at the Berlin Summer University of the Arts
phase 2: the event
Summary:
- The kiki ball as a blend between a visual participatory method (Leon-Quijano 2019), ethnographic theater-making (Vidali 2020), and ethnographic installation (Vidali & Phillips 2020)
- Co-constructed and emergent nature of cyclical citational practice in sharing, screening, and performing alongside archival material.
- The semiotic repertoires of each Ballroom category and their interactional qualities.
- The embodied practices of Puerto Rican Ballroom provide insight into how verbal art and performatic traditions from Ballroom can be re-casted for anti-colonial work.
Judge’s Panel:
Lina 007
Dozandri 007
Nicky 007
Soundtrack: Byrell the Great, Bean Queen
Phase 3: kiki ball of lengua
Hosted by:
Dozandri 007
Soundtrack: Byrell the Great, Bean Queen
Phase 3: let’s walk
The elements of face:
eyes teeth skin structure nose fantasy
The category is...
Face: Petty as Praxis
Soundtrack: Byrell the Great, Bean Queen
Phase 3: let’s walk
Analyzing the Evaluation of “Face”
eyes teeth skin structure nose fantasy
Which of these elements did you feel participants most often relied on? What types of aesthetic material did judges orient towards?
gracias:
citations:
- Leon-Quijano, C. (2019). Gender, photography and visual participatory methods: An ethnographic research project between Colombia and France. Visual Anthropology, 32(1), 1-32.
- Vidali, D. (2020). Ethnographic Theater Making: Multimodal Alchemy, Knowledge, and Invention. American Anthropologist, 122(2), 394-409.
- Vidali, D., & Phillips, K. (2020). Ethnographic installation and “the archive”: haunted relations and relocations. Visual Anthropology Review, 36(1), 64-89.
