Enabling constraints : anonymity and intimacy as forces of creative potential in virtual filmmaking workshops

Prue Adams, Susanne Gannon

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Abstract

During COVID-19, the in-person collaborative filmmaking workshops we had planned with university students to explore how gender matters in their lives were forced online. In this chapter, we work with Erin Manning’s concept of the enabling constraint to consider what is made possible and what is foreclosed with/in a virtual creative making space using Zoom and a free online editing platform FlexClip™. In digital spaces, ideas of constraint and limitation are slippery. With flows between compromise and opportunity, anonymity and intimacy, the virtual space may afford participants greater choice as to what they share of themselves visually and aurally, and the extent to which they share creative processes with others. It also offers the ability to talk one-on-one with the researcher via breakout rooms, providing safe spaces not available in face-to-face workshops. Yet, the online platform erases the materiality of bodies and subdues the vitality of affective forces between bodies. Limited palettes of stock images and sounds readily available on FlexClip narrow originality of expression and design. Despite these limitations, new and unanticipated insights began to emerge from artefacts and processes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Displacement
Subtitle of host publicationRe-inventing Embodied Practice Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic
EditorsErika Piazzoli, Rachael Jacobs, Garret Scally
Place of PublicationSwitzerland
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages115-137
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)9783031415869
ISBN (Print)9783031415852
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2023

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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.

Keywords

  • Secondary schooling
  • Arts-based research
  • Digital displacement
  • Enabling constraints
  • Gender
  • Affective filmmaking

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