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Commensal Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, 2-channel film and video installation: 16 mm film transferred from 8 mm film and digital video. Film: color and black-and-white, silent, 42 minutes. Video: color, sound, 27 minutes A portrait of...

Caniba Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, audio-video, 90 minutes Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship...

somniloquies Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017, audio-video, 73 minutes A wild orgy, a mass drowning, a dwarf city for rent, a surgical operation that goes tragically awry, a baroque mansion for sale that doubles up as a torture chamber, a de...

Lucien Castaing-Taylor Director, Sensory Ethnography Laboratory John Cowles Professor of Anthropology and of Art Director of Graduate Studies, Film & Visual Studies Harvard University, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Castaing-Taylor is an...

The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. It uses analog and digital media, installation, and performance, to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and...