I Woz Ere: An Intimate Look at the Forgotten Tower Blocks of the Edinburgh City Skyline

I Woz Ere：近距离观察爱丁堡城市天际线被遗忘的塔楼

• 批准号: 2908442
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2908442
• 关键词: Woz; Ere; Intimate; Look; Forgotten

This practice-based PhD explores the construction of communities within housing developments from a queer, neurodivergent, and working-class perspective. Centred on Edinburgh's tower block or 'scheme' communities, my research asks what modes of expanded contemporary art practice need to be developed to talk with and not about the 'subjects' of its enquiry. Focusing on Edinburgh's marginalised tower block communities, grounded in but not limited to Hutchison, where I grew up, my project intends to give voice to those often misrepresented or ignored. While there is a growing number of socially engaged artistic research projects working from a queer perspective (Charlotte Prodger, Jamie Crewe, etc.), there are far fewer attempts to engage in questions of working class and neurodivergent subjectivity. My project sits deliberately 'in-between', deploying an expanded contemporary art practice that embraces moving-image, sound, collage, drawing, and installation to record the complexities and unexpected evolutions of multi-storey living in Edinburgh. As such, my research practice seeks not to come together as one but remain fluid and transitional (Sedgwick, 1994) and champion the articulation of divergent experiences.I collate oral histories using moving-image and sound recordings from those living in a selection of Edinburgh housing schemes. My initial approach is predicated on my own history, experience, and network of family/friends. Further along, I plan to zoom out of the context I am familiar with to gather material from a growing community linked to my research interactions. These recordings are accompanied by archival research to explore more fully the development of Edinburgh's housing scheme and its ideas around working-class communities. In doing so, my project challenges external and stigmatising perceptions and presents an alternative narrative and a more inclusive representation of these communities' experiences with a wider significance that addresses questions of spatial justice, minority representation, and working-class history-making.

这个以实践为基础的博士学位从酷儿，神经发散和工人阶级的角度探讨了住房开发中的社区建设。以爱丁堡的塔楼或“计划”社区为中心，我的研究询问了需要发展哪些扩展的当代艺术实践模式来与之交谈，而不是讨论其调查的“主题”。专注于爱丁堡边缘化的塔楼社区，扎根于但不限于我长大的和记黄埔，我的项目打算为那些经常被歪曲或忽视的人发声。虽然越来越多的社会参与艺术研究项目从酷儿的角度工作（夏洛特伯格，杰米克鲁等），很少有人尝试去探讨工人阶级和神经分歧主体性的问题。我的项目故意“介于两者之间”，部署了一个扩展的当代艺术实践，包括移动图像，声音，拼贴，绘画和装置，以记录爱丁堡多层生活的复杂性和意想不到的演变。因此，我的研究实践寻求不走到一起，而是保持流动性和过渡性（塞奇威克，1994）和冠军的不同经验的衔接。我整理口述历史使用的移动图像和录音，从那些生活在爱丁堡住房计划的选择。我最初的方法是基于我自己的历史，经验和家庭/朋友网络。进一步沿着，我计划缩小我所熟悉的背景，从一个与我的研究互动相关的不断增长的社区中收集材料。这些录音伴随着档案研究，以更充分地探索爱丁堡住房计划的发展及其围绕工人阶级社区的想法。在这样做的过程中，我的项目挑战外部和污名化的看法，并提出了一个替代的叙事和这些社区的经验具有更广泛的意义，解决空间正义，少数民族代表性和工人阶级的历史决策问题更具包容性的代表。