Cric? Crac!
Documentary Film & Sensory Media Showcase
We flocked back together from Austria, China, Greece, Japan, Spain, the States, and many other locations, full of reunion hugs, hard drives filled with footage and photos, bags brimming with found objects, and minds overflowing with reflections on summers of fieldwork well spent. We returned to Manchester for Cric?Crac! 2015, with these pieces of summer to share.
From the 15th to 17th of October, around 250 people joined us for a weekend at Z-arts, viewing 15 documentary films and 15 sensory media installations. Each piece sparked dialogue, with panel discussions and artist-anthropologist talks to further catalyze conversations. Though individual presentations could exist independent of the whole, each anthropologic reflection resonated with those beside it, leaving a gallery and theater space filled with varied thematic interpretations of love, loss, community, and change.
Through sensory dialogues with more conventional modes of academic representation, visual anthropology steps outside of academia's ivory tower. Z-arts and the Cric? Crac! exhibition was our attempt to sever ourselves from whatever comfort that tower holds, and to share our work with you.
We, the Cric? Crac! collective, were thrilled for the opportunity to challenge audiences, and to be challenged by audiences, in turn. Thanks to all who contributed to the work with their presence and mental space. We could not be more grateful for your support.