Patrick Laviolette
Paride Bollettin
2/03/2022
Visual Anthropology
and Visual Culture
Robert Capa
1936, Spanish Civil War
Discussion of two short films from last class…
Plus, what did you think of?
Takumã Kuikuro, 2015, Ete London. Color, 19:59, UK-Brazil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FciwjZ_1B1w&t=170s
Jean Rouch, 1961, Chronicles of a Summer (Eng. subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct-49TYmzMg
Than think about possible connections, comparisons, contrasts,
and bring your ideas to the collective…
Employees display Mark Rothko’s “Untitled (Yellow and Blue)” at the Sotheby's
auction house in London in April. It was expected to sell for between $40
million and $60 million. Photo: TIM IRELAND/ASSOCIATED PRESS
>Dear Patrick,
>
>Hope you preparations for joining us are going well. In
>anticipation of your arrival in Wellington, can you send us a blurb
>of your research for the School’s website as well as an image –
>perhaps of your extreme sports work – on a mountain or
>something.
>Thanks,
>
>Best wishes,
>Tony
Dear Tony,
Things are well with relocation issues, thanks. As far as a research blurb goes, how’s this:
General Research Areas include:
Landscape Studies; Phenomenology & the Senses; Material Metaphor; Recyclia & Installation Art;
Performance; Documentary Film; Co-operative Housing; Surveillance and Assistive Technologies.
I am presently working on a project that deals with extreme places and their appropriation by
extreme forms of leisure. This project examines issues of embodiment, risk and perception of
landscape. In some of this work, I explore the realm where environmental protest and play are
drawn together through certain coastal extreme sports like caving, cliff jumping and surfing.
See attached for photos, will these do?
Cheers,
P
>On 27-Mar-07, at 5:16 PM, Tony Whincup wrote:
>Dear Patrick,
>
>Hope you preparations for joining us are going well. In anticipation of your
Tenzing Norgay, summit Mt Everest,
May 29 1953, Sherpa climber.
Photo, Sir Edmund Hillary
Simulacrum
...The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the
truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true —
 The quote is credited to Ecclesiastes, but the words do not occur
there. It can be seen as an addition,[4][5] a paraphrase and an
endorsement of Ecclesiastes' condemnation[6] of the pursuit of
wisdom as folly and a 'chasing after wind'—see for example
Ecclesiastes 1.17.
Baudrilliard, Jean (1988). Selected Writings (Cambridge: Polity).
Copyright
De Lorenzo, Catherine (2000). Appropriating Anthropology?:
Document and Rhetoric. Journal of Material Culture, 5(1):91-113.
On 8 Nov 2011, at 13:01, patrick@ehi.ee wrote:
Dear …..,
Funny what one can stumble upon in Estonian book shops... I've just
discovered a little volume which is a reprint from something published in the
1930s. It's about night climbing the college buildings of Cambridge. The author's
nephew, who made this new edition possible, makes the claim that this has
been a generational tradition which continues pretty much to the present day.
Since this is the first time I ever hear of this phenomenon, I wanted to check
with you whether it is something you were ever familiar with in your students
days?
Hope you're well.
Cheers, P
Reply on Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:21:09 +0000
Hi Patrick,
I was at Cambridge 1974-7 as an undergraduate and from 1978 as a P-G
student for four years and from 1984-7 as a Research Fellow. I had no personal
experience of any of this except climbing over college walls sometimes spiked
with broken glass on the top in order to get in and out in the early hours as a
UG.
Best,
…..
Photo by Dafydd Jones © (Inc)
The Dangerous Sports Club 1997
Part 1 & 2 on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D-6cmc17Wk
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