2025/2026 (Past Events)
Welcome back to our 
blog! We are glad to have you here and we are looking forward to see you in our upcoming events in our Studio (see next „What´s new“ post). Looking back to our activities from last Summer Semester 2025 and Winter Semester 2025/26 that we had:
14–15 May 2025: EASA Multimodal Ethnography Network Workshop
Pedagogy and Communities of Practice in Teaching / Valuing Multimodal
Anthropology
During the summer semester 2025, together with our colleagues from the EASA Multimodal Ethnography Network, we organized a workshop on Pedagogy and Communities of Practice in Teaching / Valuing Multimodal Anthropology at the Institute of European Ethnology, University of Vienna. As part of this workshop, a collective zine was created, addressing the question: What could a multimodal curriculum in European Ethnology / Cultural and Social Anthropology look like—one that is taught across di`erent locations or connects them?Through a collective bibliography and its visual and material realization, we experimented with multimodal methods and critically reflected on the development of a collaborative curriculum. A few copies of the zine (pdf here) are still available—please contact Giovanna.
Regarding Zines: The research project “Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism” (ILIT)—whose Vienna subproject was based at the Institute of European Ethnology from 2022 to 2025 and carried out by Alexa Färber, Marion Hamm, and Alessia Scuderi (Design)—has published a collection of zines produced within the project. You can find the online publication here. If you are interested in obtaining the Box / Zines Collection, please contact Alexa and, if possible, pick it up in person. Otherwise, we can send the Box in exchange for advance payment by the recipient.
And yet another Box: Already in autumn 2024, the research collective “penser l’urbain par l’image” (pui) published the photo box „Grand Paris sur le fil“. The Box contains three thematic leporellos, twelve large-format postcards, and a journal de bord—a kind of field diary—and is the result of a two-year collaborative project between pui and a group of amateur photographers at the cultural center in Ivry Port. Through six joint photo walks, the terrain of the major urban project “Le Grand Paris” was explored at its margins, observed from the outside, and crossed through. In autumn 2025, the publication was part of a retrospective exhibition by the collective (see below).
23 June 2025: Studio session about Image Databases and photography research
For more Information on Anton Holzer´s project visit : https://representing-roma-and-sinti.eu/home
This session was dedicated to the photo-historical research of Vida Bakondy (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) and Anton Holzer (IfEE, University of Vienna) and their work with photographic databases.
Although their historical, social, and geographical perspectives differ significantly, they share a common interest in developing image databases as an integral part of their research. Among the questions discussed were: Which research questions are particularly suitable for working with image databases? What opportunities and challenges arise from the digitization of photographic sources? How does digital availability change our engagement with photographs—our ways of seeing and interpreting? What potential do individual databases hold?
Vida Bakondy presented the VISMIG database, which she developed as part of her FWF project Visualizing Migrant Lifeworlds.
Anton Holzer introduced the research database he is currently developing with UNIDAM / Easydb as part of the newly launched FWF project Representing Roma and Sinti (1918–1939/40). Information on the first workshop within this project can be found further below.
20 October 2025: First studio session of the Winter Semester 2025/26
In our first session of the winter semester, Giovanna di Filippo Vargas presented a selection of her artistic works developed prior to her position as a Prae-Doc researcher at the Institute of European Ethnology (and as co-coordinator of the Studio Audio-Visual Research). Her artistic practice moves between object theatre, contemporary puppetry, performance, video, and exhibitions and is shaped by a transdisciplinary perspective. https://giovanna-difilippo.com/
Installation: “Penser l’urbain par l’image”, ENSA Nantes, 17–20 November 2025
In November, the research collective penser l’urbain par l’image (pui) presented its mobile exhibition for the second time, reflecting on six artistic-research projects developed between 2012 and 2024. Shown in the central plaza of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSA Nantes—the impressive low-budget building by the renowned firm Lacaton & Vassal—the exhibition became an occasion for exchange on audio-visual approaches in , from topic development and research to analysis and mediation. The event was hosted by the organizers of the conference series “FAIRE.DIRE – Écritures alternatives de la recherche en Sciences humaines et sociales,” with this year’s focus on “DIRE 2025: what act(s) for the voice of research?”
Dissertation submitted and defended, Congratulations Işıl!
In October, Işıl Karataş submitted her dissertation “Analogue Times, Digital Lives: Audio-Visual Ethnographies of Film as Medium, Method, and Matter”. She had defend it in February 2026.
In 2025, Işıl also screened her film Anarchafeminist Divinations (2024)—part of her dissertation—at numerous festivals, most recently at the Beijing International Short Film Festival and the International Experimental Film Festival in Athens. In December, she presented the film in the lecture series Thinking (further) through Materialities at the University of Basel. More information on the film: https://isilkaratas.com/
Past Events from our Studio, 2026
12 January 2026: Second studio session of the Winter Semester 2025/26
In this session, Alexa Färber offered insights into her ongoing long-term research project “Cultural Institutions and Urban Promises in Paris: Reconstructing, Traversing, and Disrupting Polarizations.” The discussion focused on the potential of a multimodal engagement with ethnographic material.
23 March 2026: Multimodal Findings from Aromantic and Asexual Everyday Lives
In this session, Isabella Hesse invites participants to collectively experiment with the method of multimodal sorting. In her dissertation project “Critique of Inevitability: An Investigation of Aromantic and Asexual Life Designs,” she explores the everyday lives and life concepts of people on the asexual and aromantic spectrum. Isabella will bring research materials from her dissertation project to be discussed collectively.
Past Events from our network
International Workshop
26 February 2026: “Gazes / Countergazes. Roma and Sinti in the Medium of Photography”. Institute of European Ethnology
The international workshop focuses on the analysis of photographic representations of Roma and Sinti, addressing both historical and contemporary hegemonic regimes of vision that have produced stereotypical and racist imagery, as well as possible forms of counter-gazes. These counter-gazes are understood as subversive, resistant interventions in practices of image-making and image-viewing. The aim of the workshop is to critically reflect on the political, aesthetic, and epistemic dimensions of photographic representation and to make alternative visual strategies visible.
Program: https://representing-roma-and-sinti.eu/home
2th and 3th March 2026: Moving Images – Masterclass on Archival Research and Essayistic Montage. With Anja Dreschke & Michaela Schäuble
The masterclass begins with a screening of the essayistic documentary film TARANTISM REVISITED (Dreschke/Schäuble, Germany/Switzerland, 2024, 105 min.), followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. The film explores the phenomenon of tarantism—a healing ritual historically and culturally rooted in southern Italy—and reflects on it through a layered engagement with archival materials, sound recordings, and contemporary film footage.