Between seen and scenes

Between seen and scenes. 

By Abdel Hernandez San Juan and Quetzil Eugenio Castaneda

Experimental collaborative paper written by Abdel Hernandez San Juan, rice university, anthropology faculty, and Quetzil Eugenio Castaneda, The university of houston, anthropology faculty, the theoretical, experimental paper explores the posibility to reinscribe a meeting setting developed around the presentation of an exhibit display, a museology and museography of anthropology exploration conceived by Abdel Hernandez San juan about both the urban popular markets of venezuela discussed by hernandez san juan as forms of mise in scenes and its folklore culture according to his fieldwork and an experimental exploration of anthropology museography unfolded under an installation display of hernandez museographic texts and the markets environments focussing new medias in anthropology incorporating conceptualism languages into such museography to spatialize it as a mise in scene. 

Abdel and Quetzil realized to do an acacemic writing paper, graphically experimental, both inscribing a set of dialogues sustained between both with a group of guests inside the museography, (a visit of quetzil with his students and colleagues) as well as discussing main issues of the gaze, the eye and the ways to understand the observational inquiries and explorations of the mise in scene understanded as a setting that mise in scene the relation between seen and scenes. 

The paper discuss major theoretical issues on the gaze, the eye and observation in social sciences participant observation attempting to capture the sense of poliphony that the museography communicates in regard to the subjectivity of the observer, an issue itself focussed and discussed in the museography mise in scene itself which both introduce the itinerary with a long theoretical text by abdel on the phenomenology of the markets and its observational characteristics from XV century colonial representation of markets urban scenes to XX century and posmodern mid nineties markets, whi;e the paper itself theoretically discuss the issue itself in anthropology and ethnography (abdel and quetzil general ideas in regard)

 The concept of ethnography as explored within the museography of anthropology mise in scene of the mise in scene of the market is unveiled and indeed enacted and or objetified hence discussed in the paper which also experiment with the duplicity of positions of both writers and their reflextions on this matter of a between seen and scenes.