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(NOT) ENTERING EVERY ROOM - Exploring autosociobiographies via liminal crossing points of social class and the emotion shame (2023)

Barbara Wolfram, Christina Wintersteiger

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(Not) Entering Every Room, conducted 2020/21 at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, set out to use the emotion shame as a focus to reveal and explore unconscious liminal crossing points in our biographies and perceptions of social class, building on our previous research on cinematic (auto)sociobiographies (2020). We are shaped, guided and scarred by our socialization and the society surrounding us. Each individual history brings with it a different knowledge repertoire about what belonging or not-belonging, „normal“ or „abnormal“ means. Spoerhase (Politik der Form 2017) describes the exploration and disclosure of one’s own biography in relation to social context & class, to one’s body, time & place of birth as “auto-sociobiographical”. He refers to the literary works of Annie Ernaux or Didier Eribon where individual life stories evoke a collective memory of a certain time and place, revealing liminal experiences of social class. One emotion that was mentioned more often than any other in these literary works, was shame. To explore our own histories of experiences and the attached knowledge repertoire, we used the methodology of collective (auto)sociobiographical exploration via a multi-layered artistic approach. Body work (Chechov, Shdanoff), writing improvisations and group explorations via zoom were used to probe the methodology of (auto)sociobiographical exploration in the light of shame and social class. Research on cinematic (auto)sociobiographies is still very new. We aim at contributing a method of exploration to the field of cinematic form and content production informed by artistic research methods.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsCinematic Autosociobiographies, shame, social class, collective working, liminal experiences, norm formation, artistic research, autosociobiographical exploration, cinematic artistic research
date27/05/2021
published07/05/2023
last modified07/05/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationmdw - University of Music and Dramatic Arts/ Film Academy Vienna
copyrightBarbara Wolfram, Christina Wintersteiger, Negin Rezaie, Patrick Wolf
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1280279/1280280
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1280279
published inResearch Catalogue


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comments: 1 (last entry by Adrian Scribano - 30/05/2022 at 16:00)
Adrian Scribano 30/05/2022 at 16:00

The work is remarkably interesting, and original and opens a path of inquiry for future dialogues. Just a few comments as contributions and beginning of the exchange:

It would be positive if the research questions about epigenetics; social also has a transmission from generation to generation and the views of classes are inherited and built, but always in development. The shame and class suffering of the ancestors produce different autobiographical conditions.

From the logic of the visual and the digital, it would be very interesting for the faces, from Levis Strauss to Goffman have discussed the proximity between masks, expressions and faces and in the Zoom of the work presented here faces are seen. Shame is one of the emotions that are most "placed" on the face, and this could be discussed.

Finally, it is suggested that the authors think of emotions as texts, as narratives, and as social practices that already tell about the person who experiences them.

 

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