#quiet theatre #developing in-depth fieldwork relationships #imaginative sociality
In her article ‘quiet theatre’ Magdalena Kaszubowski-Houston describes a series of intimate conversation with her interlocutor Randia. In the conversation, Kaszubowski-Houston takes on the role of Randia’s daughter, who prematurely died from cancer. The ethnographer becomes a responsive projection space that brings a longing relationship of the interlocutor to life. The longing relationship can be with a close or distant person lost, missed or imagined, but also with a previous or future, or currently absent version of the self, as well as with an non-human interlocutor. It gently and playfully co-creates a performative encounter with longing relationships.
Literature:
•Kazubowski-Houston, M. (2018). Quiet theatre. The Radical Politics of Silence. Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Vol. 18(6) p. 410–422.
•Kazubowski-Houston, M. (2016). Performing. In: A Different Kind of Ethnography : Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies,ed. by Diane Culhane, University of Toronto Press, p. 113-132