International Conference “Cultural Typhoon 2025”
At the international conference Cultural Typhoon 2025, held on November 8–9, 2025 at National University of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) and organized by the Cultural Studies Association, we presented a video work and a poster within the conference’s “Project Works” category.
Below is the explanatory text for the presented work.
The National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)‘s collaborative research project, Imaginary Dialogue: An Interdisciplinary, Participatory Practice of “Question” Generation through Film, AI, and Art, undertakes a methodological practice—Imaginary Dialogue—that foregrounds the richness of the pre-practical phase of “conception” and reconsiders it as an academic resource. Through this development, the project seeks to reconstruct knowledge creation not as a “finished result,” but as a “generative event” that includes relations and productive deviations.
In this screening and discussion, we will present documentary footage—and subsequent edited outcomes—from AAS (Association for Asian Studies) in Asia 2025 held in Kathmandu, Nepal, where members of the Imaginary Dialogue project from literature, linguistics, anthropology, architecture, and the arts gathered to participate in the joint session, “Documenting Crises and Disasters: A Transdisciplinarity Tryout for Liberal Arts Communication.” Attending not only to conference presentations but also to the “margins” of activity—travel, sightseeing, and dialogue—each participant focuses on their own experiences, edits from recorded materials, and composes the work as a participant-driven filmmaking approach termed Meta/Commons Film(Sawazaki, 2024).
Alongside the screenings, we will share production processes and host a dialogue session to discuss, from multiple angles, the creativity, embodiment, and ethics immanent in the moments when experiential “questions” are discovered and generated. Through such methodological practice, we reconsider “knowledge” not as an institutional artifact but as a site of co-creation and response.
At Cultural Typhoon 2025, we will present the intellectual endeavor of “bringing forth questions” as an open, public process through a space that interweaves moving-image exhibition and dialogue.
Keywords: annotation; polyphony; participant involvement; narrative; commons; meta-perspective; documentation.
Reference: Sawazaki, K., et al. (2024). Emergent Use of Visual Media in Young Muslim Studies, TRAJECTORIA Vol.5, 2024
