OUTOFSIGHT is about people who navigate the perceptible/imperceptible border in a variety of contexts and in a range of ways: the people being documented are courtroom interpreters; peer reviewers; artists who want to be anonymous; the Australian meat-processing industry and people who work in it as butchers, small-scale farmers, and migrant labourers; Roma people who actively manipulate modes of being visible and invisible; and missing migrants whose identities only become public knowledge when they disappear.
By examining how these different kinds of people are made imperceptible and make themselves imperceptible, the project will provide a framework in which we might see imperceptibility as a social achievement that has a range of forms, meanings, and consequences. It will contribute to how we might think about social, discursive, and interactional processes of invisibility, silence, and ignorance.
OUTOFSIGHT (2025-2030) is financed by the European Research Council (Advanced Grant 101141787), with supplementary funding from the Vice Chancellor and the Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University.