Month: June 2013

Finding the Beginning of the Flip-Flop Trail. Part One by Caroline Knowles

June 27, 2013

The flip-flop trail has many beginnings. My plan to follow the largest volumes of ‘traffic’ moving along the trail means the trail should begin in Saudi Arabia because Saudi holds the world’s largest oil reserves and it supplies centres of plastic production. But researching the male world of oil in Saudi poses practical problems of … More Finding the Beginning of the Flip-Flop Trail. Part One by Caroline Knowles

Changing Fields of Belonging by Carolina Ramirez

June 19, 2013

My research explores the experience of home, displacement and belonging of a group of Chilean exiles who have remained abroad, after the end of Pinochet’s dictatorship. I reflect on their changing fields of belonging by looking at a network of social scenes which have subsisted from the 1970s until today. I am developing an experimental … More Changing Fields of Belonging by Carolina Ramirez

“Adrift – The Unfamiliar Familiar of Modern Society” by Johannes Rigal

June 14, 2013

The basic premise of the Adrift show is to look at the world photographically, visually but also theoretically and see in what way – or different ways – society, the city and identities could be explained, interpreted and visually represented.   Adrift was first put together and curated by Gasket (gasket-gallery.com) last year during Urban … More “Adrift – The Unfamiliar Familiar of Modern Society” by Johannes Rigal

On the Flip-Flop Trail: the Difficulties of Travelling Methods by Caroline Knowles

June 10, 2013

Following a travelling object, allowing the object to draw the trail, demands travelling methods. The travelling methods I used, like the trail itself, were rigged together; an ad hoc patchwork of pragmatics reinvented to deal with problems that arose along the way. In my methods toolkit were techniques familiar to micro-sociologists and anthropologists – observation, … More On the Flip-Flop Trail: the Difficulties of Travelling Methods by Caroline Knowles