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

这个以实践为基础的博士从同性恋、神经分化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“方案”社区为中心，我的研究询问需要发展哪些扩展的当代艺术实践模式来讨论而不是讨论其调查的“主题”。我的项目着眼于爱丁堡边缘化的塔楼社区，以但不限于我长大的和记黄埔为基础，旨在为那些经常被歪曲或被忽视的人发出声音。虽然有越来越多的社会参与艺术研究项目从酷儿的角度出发（夏洛特·普罗杰，杰米·克鲁等），但很少有人尝试参与工人阶级和神经发散性主体性的问题。我的项目故意“介于两者之间”，采用扩展的当代艺术实践，包括动态图像，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，我的研究实践寻求的不是一个整体，而是保持流动性和过渡性（Sedgwick, 1994），并支持不同经验的表达。我整理口述历史，使用的是那些生活在爱丁堡选定的住房计划中的人的动态图像和录音。我最初的方法是基于我自己的历史、经历和家庭/朋友网络。更进一步，我计划将我熟悉的背景缩小，从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，以更全面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，我的项目挑战了外部和污名化的看法，并提出了一种替代叙事和对这些社区经历的更具包容性的代表，具有更广泛的意义，解决了空间正义、少数民族代表和工人阶级历史创造的问题。

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.