Embodied ethnographies: Entanglements in the Anthropocene

Abstract

‘Entanglements in the Anthropocene’ is an embodied exploration of the intersections of place, dance and lens‐based practices (photography and video). Lens‐based works discussed here result from collaborative research projects and grow from a shared curiosity about aesthetics in the Anthropocene and how to express entangled relationships with place. Broadly ethnographic, the work emerges from a quiet process of attunement to, participation in, and conscious engagement with, the material agencies of place. As a collection of embodied and ethnographic research, our photographs and video work express deep explorations of place‐based experiences, and memories and affect, and play with elemental motifs, the passage of time, and sensory experiences of climate change. These works collaboratively emerged during field visits with our local region over the last two years and the research is ongoing. In this article we theorise and reflect on some of these artworks as embodied ethnography of our entanglements in the Anthropocence.