In conversation with Jordan’s presentation I offer an alternative rendering of Mary……..
Bricoleur · Bricoleur: taken from the French word ‘bricolage’, means one that tinkers and fiddles, making creative use of whatever materials are readily available. In his famous work, Savage Mind, anthropologist Lévi-Strauss used the term bricolage to refer to his subjects of research “improvisational recombination of a fixed series of elements” I use the term as a recuperative reflexive gesture, one that accounts for research as a creative improvisational research practice mode of attention and disposition. For me a bricoleur is one who engages in careful, dynamic, ad hoc style of ethnographic work, making creative ethnography out whatever situation and material is close at hand.
Thanks for finding this awesomely disturbing video! I definitely think the children in this are modeled on–if not directly plucked from–the art of progressive-era advertising. I also like how everything gets a label except the people.