Talk Stories
Project & description
The vision for this project centers around the intersecting passions of three graduate students: Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Kiana Anderson, and Racheal James. With shared interests in story telling and the power that stories hold, this project seeks out stories and experiences that are housed within the self: to create, take on, and be a part of stories are what connects us together and allows for recuperation of various histories and pasts.
We invite you to take in and take on these stories: to engage with them how you best feel. To take part in these questions as a means of also reflecting on who you are, where you come from, and who you bring to this space.
Abstract
When we approach discussion, who do we bring to the table with us? How does identity inform our relationship with our past, our current spaces that we occupy, and our relationship to ourselves and land(s)? These governing questions echo throughout our project. The practice of talking stories refers to the way we are in relation with one another, where we make space and time for oral, experience sharing. Using this framework, we seek out ways that scholars who place emphasis on centering marginal voices are approaching their work and praxis— the stories of their selves— to understand their relationship with time, place, space, and land and have their organic responses add to the collective conversation of bringing people together.
The intent with this project then, is to create a audio/video collage of stories that centers around these questions of the self to make space for them to exist for what they are: powerful tools for bringing people together with little mediation/intervention. By enacting a protocol ourselves within our interview, we seek to also do the work that invites Indigenous/Western thought to co-exist: in speaking about who we are, where we call home, and who we bring into these spaces, we also call for recuperation/connection not just between lands, but between frameworks and people that are often thought to be in conflict/tension.
Governing Questions
Here are the questions that we will be seeking to find within the spaces of the stories that are being shared:
Who are you and where do you call home?
How do you approach theory and praxis?
How do you view the role of storytelling?
How do you approach space and time within your work?
How do you see your relationship to land?
Talk Stories
Project & description
The vision for this project centers around the intersecting passions of three graduate students: Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Kiana Anderson, and Racheal James. With shared interests in story telling and the power that stories hold, this project seeks out stories and experiences that are housed within the self: to create, take on, and be a part of stories are what connects us together and allows for recuperation of various histories and pasts.
We invite you to take in and take on these stories: to engage with them how you best feel. To take part in these questions as a means of also reflecting on who you are, where you come from, and who you bring to this space.
Abstract
When we approach discussion, who do we bring to the table with us? How does identity inform our relationship with our past, our current spaces that we occupy, and our relationship to ourselves and land(s)? These governing questions echo throughout our project. The practice of talking stories refers to the way we are in relation with one another, where we make space and time for oral, experience sharing. Using this framework, we seek out ways that scholars who place emphasis on centering marginal voices are approaching their work and praxis— the stories of their selves— to understand their relationship with time, place, space, and land and have their organic responses add to the collective conversation of bringing people together.
The intent with this project then, is to create a audio/video collage of stories that centers around these questions of the self to make space for them to exist for what they are: powerful tools for bringing people together with little mediation/intervention. By enacting a protocol ourselves within our interview, we seek to also do the work that invites Indigenous/Western thought to co-exist: in speaking about who we are, where we call home, and who we bring into these spaces, we also call for recuperation/connection not just between lands, but between frameworks and people that are often thought to be in conflict/tension.
Governing Questions
Here are the questions that we will be seeking to find within the spaces of the stories that are being shared:
Who are you and where do you call home?
How do you approach theory and praxis?
How do you view the role of storytelling?
How do you approach space and time within your work?
How do you see your relationship to land?
Talk Stories
Project & description
The vision for this project centers around the intersecting passions of three graduate students: Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Kiana Anderson, and Racheal James. With shared interests in story telling and the power that stories hold, this project seeks out stories and experiences that are housed within the self: to create, take on, and be a part of stories are what connects us together and allows for recuperation of various histories and pasts.
We invite you to take in and take on these stories: to engage with them how you best feel. To take part in these questions as a means of also reflecting on who you are, where you come from, and who you bring to this space.
Abstract
When we approach discussion, who do we bring to the table with us? How does identity inform our relationship with our past, our current spaces that we occupy, and our relationship to ourselves and land(s)? These governing questions echo throughout our project. The practice of talking stories refers to the way we are in relation with one another, where we make space and time for oral, experience sharing. Using this framework, we seek out ways that scholars who place emphasis on centering marginal voices are approaching their work and praxis— the stories of their selves— to understand their relationship with time, place, space, and land and have their organic responses add to the collective conversation of bringing people together.
The intent with this project then, is to create a audio/video collage of stories that centers around these questions of the self to make space for them to exist for what they are: powerful tools for bringing people together with little mediation/intervention. By enacting a protocol ourselves within our interview, we seek to also do the work that invites Indigenous/Western thought to co-exist: in speaking about who we are, where we call home, and who we bring into these spaces, we also call for recuperation/connection not just between lands, but between frameworks and people that are often thought to be in conflict/tension.
Governing Questions
Here are the questions that we will be seeking to find within the spaces of the stories that are being shared:
Who are you and where do you call home?
How do you approach theory and praxis?
How do you view the role of storytelling?
How do you approach space and time within your work?
How do you see your relationship to land?
