Brett Ascarelli’s 30% seminar

PhD project

This doctoral research in performative and media-based practices explores the transformative potential of participatory, documentary podcasting processes that may make space for people to face shared challenges by taking creative actions. The research engages with the tradition of instruction art and also considers the interplay between aesthetics and ethics in the process of making and telling stories.

Some questions include the following: How can media producers design the process of making an engaging documentary or reality show podcast so that it doesn’t exploit the subjects who are at the center of the story, but rather gives them room to address a big challenge in a playful and creative way? How can producers tweak the individual steps of the podcasting process to enable this to happen, what will the results sound like, and how will participants, producers and audiences experience the process?

Opponent:
Hélène Frichot, Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne

Supervisors:
Tinna Joné, Head of subject area Film and Media, Assistant Professor of Documentary Storytelling
Sheryl Doruff, Professor of Film and Media

30% seminar

The researcher will share clips from an audio documentary-in-progress about people testing out a creative way to deal with a problem that they see in society: how people think about age. She will also present clips of interviews with the producer of a reality show podcast, a participant in a reality show podcast, and others working in the field of documentary and media production. She will discuss the red thread among this material and other practices that she has been working on, with an eye towards how the research project may develop. The opponent will engage the researcher in a discussion, followed by a discussion with the audience. 

Book your place! 
To book your place, please send your name to: brett.ascarelli@uniarts.se