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A workshop on experiential learning
Drawing on visual anthropology, embodied practices, and multimodal pedagogy, the workshop situates storytelling as an intersubjective practice that bridges the gap between “self” and “other.” Through films, performative lectures, interactive exercises, and reflexive games, participants are invited to explore how stories are carried in bodies and negotiated across cultural ambivalences and interpersonal hierarchies.
The workshop delves into the subtleties of collaboration, guiding participants through embodied, hands-on practices that merge artistic expression with sensorial exploration. By foregrounding liminality, intergenerational histories, and embodied relationality, Körperkino offers participants methodological and practical tools to tell their own stories as ways of addressing narrative inequalities and imagining plural futures.
arjunraj is a filmmaker, multimodal researcher, and pedagogue currently working as a Research Associate at the University of Hamburg, Germany, with an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Münster, Germany.
Drawing from over a decade of experience in telling stories while collaborating with individuals carrying experiences of othering, arjunraj has developed a storytelling methodology called Körperkino – Embodied Cinema. This methodology invites participants to tell stories with someone while telling their own stories through and with their bodies.
arjunraj teaches this methodology at universities in Germany, including Freiburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden, and travels extensively to teach across Europe, East Africa, and India. They are a recipient of fellowships from Bosch Stiftung, the Berlin Senate, and CIRCE (U-Institut), Berlin.
arjunraj’s long-term goal is to enable the study and practice of storytelling within anthropology and the arts, in order to open up new possibilities for imagining more plural ways of seeing, and of being seen.
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