Mapping Meaning.
Embodiment & the Entanglements of today

Combining an introductory talk and a hands-on workshop on interpreting audiovisual material.

FAU Symposium on International Research in Culture and Arts Education
Nürnberg, 2025

This session looked at how art practice can communicate meaning via embodied forms of meaning-making. It combined a short introductory talk with a hands-on workshop where participants practiced interpreting audiovisual material together. The opening presentation outlined an audiovisual, fieldwork-based approach to working with recorded interviews and performances.

Event:  FAU Symposium Workshop
Focus:  Embodied Research & Ritual

In the workshop, participants engaged with several brief, subtitled fieldwork fragments reflecting on community and belonging.

The excerpts reflected on ways how cultural knowledge is shared and communicated. Questions around responsibility and representation arose questioning how material artefacts are being selected, engaged and communicated.

Participants afterwards worked in small groups to “map” what the clips convey across different perspectives—from intrinsic individual experiences  towards community contexts and broader (trans-)national narratives. 

Each group focused on mapping one excerpt, and the session ended with a shared viewing, short group reports, and a closing discussion. The goal was to understand how meaning within the maps is being communicated through the compositional choices of clustering, referencing and framing.