Visual Anthropology CenterBelgrade, Serbia
Topics
Visual storytelling, Interdisciplinary collaboration
Disciplines
Visual anthropology, Documentary, Media
The Visual Anthropology Center (VAC) is a creative hub devoted to the audio-visual exploration of the contemporary world. In an era overwhelmed by visual information, VAC fosters collaboration between documentarists, social scientists, visual artists, and creators from film and theater. The goal is to ensure that their work is not only intellectually and socially relevant but also visually compelling.
VAC operates as an independent, non-profit organization, unaffiliated with existing institutions. This autonomy ensures a distinct artistic and scientific voice, free from institutional influence and political bias.
Through the creation of socially engaged films, photographs, and other visual media, VAC aims to contribute to global consciousness. In addition to producing work, the Center actively cultivates an international community of creative thinkers by organizing international and local visual anthropology schools, online courses, and residency programs.
VAC operates as an independent, non-profit organization, unaffiliated with existing institutions. This autonomy ensures a distinct artistic and scientific voice, free from institutional influence and political bias.
Through the creation of socially engaged films, photographs, and other visual media, VAC aims to contribute to global consciousness. In addition to producing work, the Center actively cultivates an international community of creative thinkers by organizing international and local visual anthropology schools, online courses, and residency programs.
Balıkesir, Istanbul
Adadayız
Created through the joint initiatives of Galimi Çınarlı Rural Development and Tourism Association, geared towards the promotion of local production and island culture on Marmara Island, and Adalar Vakfı, a foundation for the protection and preservation of the historic, cultural and natural assets of the Princes’ Islands of Istanbul, Adadayız* offers a collaborative space in which island organisations can join forces to share information and explore common issues including identity, social and cultural transformations, and migration. In line with this vision, the hub’s activities focus on island cultures, artistic expressions, and responses to crises through online and face-to-face events and communication. The hub strives to weave an Island Network to draw together researchers and organisations. Coordinated by the Galimi Çınarlı Association, the initiative celebrates the resilience of island life and its unique responses to challenges such as the mucilage crisis and the pandemic, as well as various aspects of sustainability.
* Literally, “we’re here, on the island”
* Literally, “we’re here, on the island”
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Balıkesir, Istanbul
Adadayız
vahahubs.org/hubs/adadayiz
Adadayız offers a collaborative space for island organisations to share information and explore common issues: identity, social and cultural transformations, and migration.
TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE IDEA
Marmara Island Kaleidoscope: Visual anthropology workshop for high school studentsVAC members will hold a seven-day workshop on Marmara Island. One group of high school students will have the task of applying the autoethnographic method - they will film each other and talk about their childhood, growing up on the island and children's games that are significant for understanding the culture of adults on Marmara Island.
On the first day of the workshop, the lecturers and mentors will hold a lecture on visual anthropology, its research methodologies, performative theories and cinematographic language, which is necessary for the creation of a cooperative ethnographic film; The second day is reserved for lectures related to modern approaches in visual anthropology, sensory anthropology and soundscape research; as well as recording exercises with camera and sound equipment.
The next three days are reserved for fieldwork with a camera and the collection of audiovisual ethnographic data.
On the last two days, the participants will have the opportunity to learn the basics of editing and editing their films.
Marmara Island Kaleidoscope is created in partnership with the Adadayız from Balıkesir and Istanbul.
