Hong Kong customs and traditions: an evening of video works from CUHK students’ visual research

May 6 (Sunday), 7:30pm @ FPC

‘Visual Research Methods’ students at CUHK explored aspects of Hong Kong everyday life in their final works with a theme ‘Hong Kong customs and traditions’ in Spring 2012. As a result, a number of them produced video footage of their chosen topic, also experiencing the method of videography for the first time. In the spirit of cultural studies, the students were challenged to engage in participaroty research and aim to establish an equal rapport with their interviewees. 

This screening features four such works and covers topics ranging from consumer culture to traditional Shanghainese barbershops. …

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Talking head questions: inductive and interdisciplinary

- Elliot W.Y. LEUNG

FPC Forum: ‘What’s in a Talking Head: narrated selves and event structure”
2010.06.26 / FPC / 2:30-4:30 pm / Linda C.H. LAI

Some belated thoughts…

Absolutely fascinating talk and materials; materials which – as was acknowledged during the presentation – lend itself to so many possible frames of analysis, approaches, and appealable to various knowledge/capital fields (Bourdieu), that an inter-disciplinary analysis becomes an unimaginably arduous endeavour, the success of which, nonetheless, would no doubt do justice to the richness of the theoretical mosaic invoked.

The challenge – or problem, depending on how one sees it – seems to be that ‘talking heads’ as an object of analysis as well as aesthetic gaze crosses so many conceptual boundaries that 10+ very different essays can be conceived, each published in a different journal in a different knowledge/citation field:

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