INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING
by
Dr. ITSUSHI KAWASE
22. November 2014, 8pm.

Small Projects is very proud to host a film screening/ talk by Dr. Itsushi Kawaze of the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. Dr. Kawaze will be in Tromsø for a series of events highlighted by his lecture, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Ethnographic Filmmaking: Investigation of Knowledge, Method and Politics Based on Case Studies from Ethiopia which will be held at the Tromsø University Museum auditorium on 24. November, 13:00h.

Dr. Kawase Itsushi is an associate professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. He holds a BA, Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University 2001, an MA. in Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University 2007 and Ph.D. Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University 2010. Research topics: Creating the Audio-visual Narrative in Conjunction with Anthropology, Cinema and Contemporary Art. Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage and Filmmaking: the investigation of knowledge, method and politics based on case studies from Africa.

Itsushi Kawase's visit to Tromsø is thanks to the financial support of MusVit, Norwegian National Research Network of University Museums, Tromsø Museum cluster of museology, and Visual Cultural Studies, Institute of Archeology and Social Anthropology, The Arctic University of Norway, in collaboration with Small Projects Tromsø. www.smallprojects.no.

Disciplinary fields: Visual Anthropology, Intangible Cultural Heritage, African Studies (Ethiopia), Musicology.

Program:
Friday 21st Itsushi Kawase will be presenting three films and one video installation at VCS/at the Cinema (1215- 1600).

Saturday 22nd presentation of recent visual work made by Japanese anthropologists, at Small Projects art gallery in Tromsø Centrum, Grønnegata 23 at 8pm.

Monday 24th Itsushi Kawase will give a lecture at Tromsø Museum 1300-1500: ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage and Ethnographic Filmmaking: Investigation of Knowledge, Method and Politics Based on Case Studies from Ethiopia’