Participatory Perception by Multisensory Evocation. The Audiovisual Anthropology of the Invisible and the Absent

研究项目的背景是申请人专注于视觉人类学的研究和教学；它调查了纪录片的社会背景和话语。出发点是以下几个问题：情感和多感官体验是如何转化为电影语言的？经验是如何在视听表现中调解的，又是如何在社会话语实践中协商的？多感官唤起在观众的移情、参与和情感参与方面起什么作用？申请人和准研究者就上述问题调查“纪实”话语领域。通过对视觉人类学、感官人类学和情感人类学以及电影、文学和哲学领域的综合研究，该项目侧重于各种情感诗学的生产和话语接受。影片的主题是在主题和风格上质疑西方的感官等级和视觉偏好。因此，焦点从所谓的图像表现转向对社会现实和情感生活的多感官唤起。因此，从主题和风格上分析电影，使看不见的和不存在的成为观众的感官体验。这种关注在电影语言中表现为叙事空白、剪辑技巧和其他电影策略，这是由于主流理论认为电影空白是在观众的想象中填补的，从而刺激他们以情感的、多感官的方式参与其中。这篇论文需要通过跨学科的多种方法来检验，包括话语分析和接受美学问题。该项目将重点放在纪录片异质话语中的演员身上。由于其跨学科性和对观看者和接受的关注，该项目填补了视觉人类学的空白。

The context of the research project is the applicant's focus on research and teaching in visual anthropology; it investigates the social contexts and discourses of documentary films. The points of departure are the following questions: How is emotional and multisensory experience translated into film language? How is experience mediated in audiovisual representations and how is it negotiated in and by social discourse practices? What role does multisensory evocation play regarding the viewer's empathy, participation and affective involvement? The applicant and the prospective researcher investigate the "documentary" field of discourse as regards the questions mentioned above.Through an integrative study of visual anthropology, anthropology of the senses and the emotions, along with the fields of film, literature and philosophy, the project focuses on the production and discursive reception of various poetics of feeling.The subject matter is films that thematically and stylistically question the western hierarchy of the senses and the preference of vision. Thus the focus moves from a supposedly pictorial representation towards a multisensory evocation of social realities and emotional life. Therefore films will be analyzed which thematically and stylistically make the invisible and absent into a sensuous experience for the viewer. This focus, which is manifest in film language in narrative gaps, editing techniques and other cinematic strategies, is due to the leading thesis that cinematic blanks are filled in the viewers' imagination - thus they are stimulated to participate in an emotional, multisensory way. This thesis needs to be examined through an interdisciplinary plurality of methods, which include discourse analysis and questions on the aesthetics of reception. The project focuses its attention on actors in the heterogeneous discourse on documentaries.Because of its interdisciplinarity and its focus on the viewer and reception the project closes a gap in Visual Anthropology.