「The Tachinomi Project」Lecture Set-up

Post on FB, 4/16/26

Visual Anthropology in Japan:「The Tachinomi Project」 日本に映像人類学: 「立ち呑みプロジェクト」 @ Salon KGU

Visual Anthropology in Japan:

「The Tachinomi Project」

A chance to share my research with colleagues at work...

Abstract:

「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography based upon the intersections of social science research and contemporary art. The project began with long-term participant-observation and a photographic exhibition featuring a 40-year-old tachinomiya (standing drink bar) in Osaka called Tenbun. The study sought to explore photography in public spaces, privacy and image ethics while showcasing a “grimy” (Farrer 2019) and stimulating atmosphere with colorful characters including the shop owner, employees and regular customers. The interactions with Tenbun collaborators and gallery audience at the exhibition became the first of several post-fieldwork encounters, leading to the re-positioning of the research into wider social and academic contexts during and after the COVID 19 pandemic. This present account utilizes reflexivity, autoethnographic vignettes (Stevens 2013) and photography to explore the intersections of the sensory (Pink 2013 [2009]), multimodal (Collins et al. 2017), and ba (Kajimaru et al. 2021) of Tenbun and other eating and drinking establishments.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

18:30 ~ 20:00

CIE 3rd Floor Seminar Room

日本に映像人類学:

「立ち呑みプロジェクト」

職場の同僚と自分の研究成果を共有する機会…

要旨:

「立ち呑みプロジェクト」は、社会科学的調査と現代美術の交差領域に立脚したビジュアル・エスノグラフィーである。本プロジェクトは、大阪の創業40年の立ち呑み屋「天文」における長期的参与観察、ならびに同店を主題とした写真展を起点に始まった。本研究は、公共空間における写真撮影、プライバシー、および映像倫理を検討することを目的とし、店主や従業員、常連客といった多様な人々が織りなす、「猥雑（grimy）」（Farrer 2019）かつ刺激的な空間の様相を詳らかにするものである。 フィールドワーク後、写真展における「天文」協力者と観覧者とのインターアクションを皮切りに、コロナ禍中またそれ以降のより広範な社会的・学術的文脈で捉え直すこととなった。 本研究では、再帰性、オートエスノグラフィー的ヴィニエット（Stevens 2013）、写真を通し、「天文」をはじめとする飲食施設における感覚（Pink 2013 [2009]）、マルチモーダル（Collins et al. 2017）、場（Kajimaru et al. 2021）の交差について論じる。

2026年4月16日（木）

18:30～20:00

CIE 3階 セミナー室

春から初夏にかけてのサロンKGUの全スケジュールはこちらです。

Here is the complete Salon KGU schedule for the spring and early summer:

BONUS!

かたの桜 純米吟醸酒 雪の香(ゆきのか) 17度
Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Sake Yukinoka (Scent of Snow) 17%

片野桜大吟醸袋吊りしずく(令和7酒造年度) 17度
Katano Sakura Daiginjo Undiluted Brew Genshu (2025) 17%

山野酒造 大阪府交野市
Yamano Sake Brewery Katano City, Osaka Prefecture

URL: https://www.katanosakura.com/

New Publication: "An archive of archives lost" by Dada Docot

Abstract: ‘An Archive of Archives Lost’ is an affective autoethnographic visual essay that examines the devastating impact of climate change through the lens of personal loss. The Philippines is among the countries most vulnerable to the ongoing climate crisis, with tropical storms getting stronger and more frequent. As a result of the intensified damage, many homes have lost their personal photographic archive, which used to bring together families and community through shared memories. The repeated experience of typhoons, flooding, and loss has made the community attuned to a routine cycle of letting go. The destruction of photographs symbolizes a deeper loss of cultural and social ties whose affective impact I explore.

Open Source full text article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17540763.2025.2487588

Docot, D. (2025). An archive of archives lost. Photographies, 18(2), 223–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2025.2487588

The Visual Anthropology of Japan: In and Outside the Classroom, Revisited

JAWS / AJJ Joint Conference 2025
Session 14 - Reflecting and Revisiting「Teaching Japan」
University of Hyogo - Kobe Campus for Commerce
Building 5
April 5, 2025, 15:40 - 17:10

Campus access: https://www.u-hyogo.ac.jp/english/access/#id01

Campus map: https://www.u-hyogo.ac.jp/about/access/kobeshoka/

Paper 4: The Visual Anthropology of Japan: In and Outside the Classroom, Revisited
Steven C. Fedorowicz, Professor, Kansai Gaidai University

Abstract: My chapter describes teaching a class comprised of international exchange students from many different countries alongside local students preparing for their study-abroad programs called “Visual Anthropology of Japan” at a Japanese university from 2006 to 2014. Topically, the course was about the presentation and representation of culture through film, photography, and other visual communication arts within the shifting anthropological ecologies of media, methods, and theory. Teaching “Japan” in this context required several balances of instruction and guidance for students of different academic levels, backgrounds, language skills and expectations studying together in the same class. Because of my training and background in cultural anthropology and visual anthropology, I do not consider my text as a theoretical treatise on pedagogy per se. Rather it is closer to an ethnographic—sometimes autoethnographic—account based on the fieldwork of teaching this course under certain conditions at a global educational setting. In my presentation, I will revisit this setting through the reflexive lens of ba (Kajimaru, Coker and Kazuma 2021), specifically, the convergence of players, place and performance during the period of the multimodal turn in visual anthropology that coincided with the class. This reminiscent revisit reaffirms the potential and possibility for a more active student learning environment and further course development to make a new and improved version of the course.

For more details about the conference and panel: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/02/announcement-jawsajj-joint-conference.html