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Abstract
What is debated in this article is vision itself as a locus of knowledge, which is particularly challenging to comprehend as it cannot be compared to the discursive form of thought. What underlies the relation between thought and observation, the production of discourse and the production of images, the expository style and the narrative one, writing and filming, being a researcher and being a director? I will sketch a provisional and partial answer, comparing two examples of urban action-research. These gave rise to two different “video-researches” grounded in two different research epistemologies. In one case the audiovisual is programmed, employed (and thought) as a means (or device) for urban anthropological investigation. In the other one, conversely, the audiovideo is systematically anticipated as the final end of the research, that is, as a representation of knowledge in itself. The video-research format in fact raises a fundamental ambivalence between the function of the research and that of the direction in the production of “scientific” knowledge.
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Erika Lazzarino
ERIKA LAZZARINO is an applied anthropologist, independent researcher, cultural designer and urban activist. After getting a Ph.D. in Development Anthropology, in 2010 she co-founded Dynamoscopio, a collective of freelance researchers in Anthropology, Social Innovation, Urban Politics, Architecture, and Public Arts, based in Milan.