ETHNOGRAPHY &amp DESIGN: MUTUAL PROVOCATIONS (CoLED Conference)

This a practical workshop for devising scores for ethnography. This workshop extends experiments from earlier CoLED workshops in bringing methods from devised improvisation of dance, theatre and performance into ethnography. Choreographer J. Burrows describes two main ways of classifying scores: The first kind is something written as a representation of the piece itself, a template which holds within the detail, in linear time, of what you will eventually see or hear. In the second kind of score, what is written or described is a tool for information, image and inspiration. It acts as a source what might happen or what might emerge, but the whose shapes may be different form the final realization.

In this ethnographic workshop we are interested in the second. One of the advantages of the score is a distraction for the performer, providing a focus away from their self-consciousness and fear. Along the way we will discover and discuss how all methods of ethnography come embedded with explicit and implicit instructions. These habitual and disciplined instructions operate like scores limiting the possible engagements with fieldwork. Designing and devising scores for ethnography will provoke innovative fieldwork in training and in practice. We will be inventing and collecting new scores.