Name: CEE CARNIVAL
Start: 2023-05-01T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-02T00:00:00-04:00
Location: Penn Museum

CEE CARNIVAL

Center for Experimental Ethnography

Join us for over twelve hours of workshops, performances, screenings, and conversation in celebration of CEE's fifth anniversary

Penn Museum

<h2>From 10:00 am to midnight, CEE’s Carnival will feature academic workshops, panel discussions, screenings, and performances, including:</h2><ul><li> A live performance of Primo Maggio, the anthem of International Worker’s Day, by Trust Your Moves Choir and guided by Steven Feld</li><li>A relaxation installation by visual and textile artist Emily Carris Duncan </li><li>Performances by Imani Uzuri</li><li>Discussions about portraiture and the role of place with filmmakers  Damani Partridge and Jenny Chio</li><li>A screening of Ricardo Bracho’s Mexican Psychotic </li><li>A discussion on decolonizing institutional spaces featuring Wayne Modest and James Claiborne. </li><li>A screening of Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears’ “Ethnography of No Place”</li><li>“Horn to Horn” by Steven Feld, a listening session of a collaboration with honking horn truck and drivers in Accra</li><li>A lecture/demonstration called “doomsday” featuring Christina and Jessi Knight</li><li>A panel discussion with Afghanistan’s most prominent media makers in exile: Najiba Ayubi, Sanjar Sohail, and Roya Sadat</li></ul><ul><li>A screening of Retold, a documentation of Amitav Ghosh and Ali Sethi’s residency with the CEE</li><li>A performance by Cookie Diorio (produced by the Bearded Ladies) followed by a dance party with music by DJ Reezey, Rashaun Williams</li></ul><p></p><p>Former CEE Fellows will return to Penn’s campus to share their research, practice, and creativity during Carnival, which is co-sponsored by the departments of Anthropology and Music, the Center for Media at Risk, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, the Program in Cinema Studies, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and the Department of Fine Arts in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. </p>

<h2>About the Center for Experimental Ethnography</h2><p>The Center for Experimental Ethnography was founded in 2018 to promote multi-modal research practices as both method and theory, integral dimensions of scholarly research.  We are a group of faculty across eight of Penn’s twelve schools who facilitate and support creative research practices among undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and our partners within the City of Philadelphia and beyond.  We coordinate scholarship, research, and public partnerships related to multi-modal work practices; consolidate those activities in which we (and our students) are already engaged; and grow these generative connections by hosting Visiting Scholars, coordinating workshops and conferences, supporting multi-modal project based courses, facilitating visual, sonic, and performative undergraduate and graduate research projects, producing rigorous criteria for assessing those projects, engaging with arts and community-based institutions throughout Philadelphia, and forging connections with other like-minded institutions worldwide.  We see creative practice as intellectual work that necessarily historicizes the inequalities that pervade our society, and that develops solutions for their present iterations through collaborative and participatory work.  A basic premise that underlies our efforts is the contention that an expanded and multi-modal definition of what counts as scholarship will help lead to a more diverse university community, a community in which artistic practice is a cornerstone not only for engaged and participatory social justice work, but also for the reimagining and transformation of the university as a whole.  </p><p></p>

<h2>About the Penn Museum</h2><p>Home to over a million extraordinary objects, the Penn Museum has been highlighting our shared humanity across continents and millennia since 1887. In expanding access to archaeology and anthropology, the Penn Museum builds empathy and connections between cultures through experiences online and onsite in our galleries.</p><p>The Penn Museum is open Tuesday–Sunday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm. The Café is open Tuesday–Thursday, 9:00 am–3:00 pm and Friday and Saturday, 10:00 am–2:00 pm. For updated information, visit www.penn.museum, call 215.898.4000, or follow @PennMuseum on social media.</p><p></p><p></p>

Agenda

Trust Your Moves Choir guided by Steven Feld at the Main Entrance Upstairs Landing.

Primo Maggio Anarchico

A relaxation installation with lush textiles, plants, and music will provide the backdrop for a conversation about the quilt as an intimate textile that fosters rest, safety, and joy.

Suture Self in the Garden Disco

Soundings I

Creating Future Countrysides and Future Cities: Portraits, Collaborations, and Non-Citizens in the Post-Industrial Present. A discussion about different forms of portraiture, which will include some screenings and conversation.

Creating Future Countrysides and Future Cities`

A screening of Ricardo Bracho's completed Mexican Psychotic video along with the videos made by students in his surrealism class (Widener Hall).

Lunch and Screening of Mexican Psychotic

A discussion about institutional decolonizing with Wayne Modest and James Claiborne.

A Conversation on Institutional Decolonizing

A screening of an early film collaboration by Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears, followed by a multi-modal response developed by members of CAMRA (Widener Hall)

Ethnography of No Place Screening (Directed by Saya Woolfalk and Rachel Lears)

Soundings procession from Widener to Mosaic Gallery Outdoor Space, led by Imani Uzuri

Soundings II

Tea/Coffee

A panel discussion with screenings with well-known Afghan media makers in exile.

Media in Exile/The Embodiment of Displacement

doomsday: a lecture demonstration

Screenings and a discussion about what we get and take away from the value a place/space holds/shares, about how we move over time and space, and about whether or not this changes (Rainey)

Place, Space, Time, Dance: Getting from Here to There

Screening of clips from 'Retold' Documentary and Discussion (Widener Hall)

Dinner & Jungle-Nama

Drag Performance by Cookie D'iorio/Bearded Ladies

DJ and Dancing

A listening session to a collaboration with honking horn truck drivers in Accra (Africa Gallery)

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