I’m a sophomore living in FroSoCo for the second year this year. I’m almost certainly majoring in Cultural and Social Anthropology, though I haven’t quite got around to declaring yet. I’m a dedicated fuzzy—although I appreciate techiness on many levels, I’m far too incompetent at it to pursue it seriously myself. I’m still playing around a lot with my classes and exploring a lot of new things, which is making this one of funnest quarters yet.

I love tea (the hot water heater is new this year, and my roommate and I go through a few cups a day), dancing (swing, rotary waltz, etc., and especially cross-step waltz), llamas, pine-needle baskets, Tom Robbins, chocolate, and origami. I also play the Celtic harp (though my harp is currently, sadly, at home because of the imminent threat that dorm life posed to it on a daily, terrifying basis).

I’m doing Dance Marathon for the second time this year (it’s one of the major events coming up in my life at the moment) and I’m currently working on one of the committees.

I’ve travelled a little, but not nearly as much as I want to—one of my overall goals for my life is to travel a lot. I’m still figuring out what I want to do this summer and with my life. I probably want to work for an international NGO eventually. My favorite country that I’ve been to thus far is Mongolia—I went to Mongolia and Siberia for a month to do a watershed study on Lake Baikal. I got to ride horses on the steppes, watch the sunrise over Lake Baikal, and stumble blind down a pitch-black trail at midnight led by Buryat kids to fill my waterbottle from the sacred spring.

I don’t have a lot of experience with photography, though I love pictures. From CASA, I’m interested in photographs and people—what is captured and what is excluded in a picture, how pictures are used to construct identities and to create a sense of connection or distance. On another level, I also love pictures that manage to convey a vivid sense of texture.

Photo commentary: Dancing Past

Dance Marathon

Posted at Feb 14/2006 09:46AM:
[chris witmore]: the documentation of performance, being there and presence, place-event (Tschumi)

Posted at Feb 14/2006 09:51AM:
[chris witmore]: see http://presence.stanford.edu and click on documentation

located media

senses of "being there"


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