Christian Vium (born 1980 in Aarhus, Denmark) is an anthropologist, photographer and film-maker primarily working on long-term research-based projects involving experimental and collaborative methods at the intersection between the social sciences and the arts. Christian Vium has received numerous international awards for his work, most recently one of Europe’s most prestigious photographic prizes: The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2016, as well as a being selected as a FOAM Talent in 2015. His work has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, and Tokyo, among other places.In 2016, he was nominated for the Silver Medal for excellent research by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and received a two-year postdoctoral scholarship by the Carlsberg Foundation the same year. Christian Vium holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen and is a post-doctoral research fellow in anthropology at Aarhus University.Site: http://www.christianvium.com

Abstract:

With a point of departure in a presentation of material and empirical cases from several long-term anthropological research projects in which film and photography occupies a privileged role, this presentation focuses on my approach to an experimental visual anthropology. In the presentation, I invite the audience through concrete stages of my work process and discuss my take on intervention, collaboration, co-curation, editing and exhibition-making, and how these may be seen as constituting both methodological and analytical approaches that afford particular ways of interrogating and communicating anthropological knowledge.