We welcome you to the Con-text-ure series on experimental media and writing. As a sensuous archive of various experimental works including short films, performance, poetry, photography, sound constellations, and ethnographic writing, Con-text-ure aims to promote open-access scholarship while considering the disciplinary contributions of multi-modal work that often does not fit the standard of peer-reviewed publications.

Inquiries

For all inquiries related to the series, please contact VNMR section editors Ara Ortiz ([email protected]) and Alejandro Jaramillo ([email protected]).

Ethnographic Lesser Evils

Ethnographic Lesser Evils

Ni Mnyama pekee anaeruka,Yasemekana mchana haoni bali usiku,She is a creature of flight,Day-blind and night-sighted,If animals are mentioned at all in our ethno... More

The Force of Sonority

The Force of Sonority

July 15, 2018. Shores of the Canal Saint-Martin, Paris. It was the evening when France won the soccer world cup. The recording captures the hours before the eve... More

The File Story

The File Story

When certain forms of text and interview constitute captivity, the visual can offer fracture lines; unexpected openings and departures. Multimodal presentation ... More

Con-text-ure

Con-text-ure

We welcome you to Con-text-ure, a series on experimental media and writing. The word Con-text-ure is borrowed from the book Culture/Contexture: Explorations in ... More

Underpass

Underpass

The body is part of the external world, continuous with it. In fact, it is just as much part of nature as anything else there—a river, or a mountain, or a cloud... More

Frontextos: A Way of Thinking

Frontextos: A Way of Thinking

I began my FRONTEXTOS project (frontexto is a blend of frontera and texto, border/text) on New Year’s Day of 2018. At first, it had to do with commitment. I mad... More

Crowds

Crowds

Elias Canetti on crowds and Gaston Bachelard on fire inform this montage of images and sounds in downtown Lima’s semi-legal market of Mesa Redonda featuring den... More

Verse Journal of the Kashmir Siege

Verse Journal of the Kashmir Siege

On August 4, 2019, my Whatsapp lit with a luminous photograph of the shrine of medieval era Muslim saint Hazrat Amir Kabir. Popularly called Khankah, the shrine... More

Re-sounding Movements

Re-sounding Movements

In the event of Re-sounding Movements, drawing resonates across the vital spaces of the in-between, attempting to capture the felt vitality of passages forming ... More