Ghosts amongst us: an audio-visual exploration of haunting in Palestine

这项以实践为主导的研究是对巴勒斯坦闹鬼的参与性视听探索。与那些经历过鬼魂出没、超自然目击和/或灵魂附身的人密切合作，我将使用胶片、声音、摄影和其他混合媒体来探索不同的巴勒斯坦社区如何体验、体现和描述精灵(al-Ghraib或“看不见”的世界的鬼魂、精灵、巫婆、恶魔和其他力量)。它借鉴了我作为一名视觉人类学家和策展人的背景，提供了一种全新的方式来表现和概念化巴勒斯坦暴力、创伤、记忆和形而上学之间的关系。受蒂娜·坎普特关于黑人社区的身份照片可以被听到的理论和劳伦斯·阿布·哈姆丹对声音的法医研究的启发，这项研究寻求新的方式与巴勒斯坦社区合作，思考这位艺术家兼民族志学者如何经历和视听地呈现沉默的、通常是无形的力量。

The practice-led research is a participatory, audio-visual exploration of haunting in Palestine. Working closely with those who have experienced haunting, supernatural sightings and/or spirit possession, I will be using film, sound, photography and other mixed mixed media to explore how jinn (ghosts, spirits, witches, demons and other forces of the al-ghraib or 'unseen' world) are experienced, embodied and described by different Palestinian communities. It draws on my background as a visual anthropologist and curator and offers a radically new way of representing and conceptualizing the relationship between violence, trauma, memory and the metaphysical in Palestine.Inspired by Tina Campt's theory that identity photographs of black communities can be "heard" and Lawrence Abu Hamdan's forensic research into sound, this research seeks new ways of working together with Palestinian communities to think about how silent, often invisible forces are experienced and can be audio-visually represented by the artist-ethnographer.