Unsettling Bodies: Video Essay As Embodied Research
Author: Johannes Binotto
Published on Academic Quarter no. 27, 31 August 2024.
DOI: https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/8827
Abstract: This paper proposes a fundamental new understanding of video-graphic research as an embodied practice and of the video essay as a “mingled body”: Not only does the video essay fuse multiple film materials and diverging artistic and scientific methods into a new body of media. The video essay also engages the bodies of both its makers and viewers in new and unsettling ways. Via a theoretical discussion of the video essay’s body as well as via two concrete examples of embodied video essays the potentials of videographic research for a more vulnerable, non-normative academia of the fu-ture are outlined.
Keywords: videographic research, embodiment, performativity, vulnerability, mingling.