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.

这项基于实践的博士探索了从酷儿，神经散发和工人阶级的观点中住房发展中社区的建设。我的研究以爱丁堡的塔楼或“计划”社区为中心，询问需要开发哪种扩展的当代艺术实践方式才能与其询问的“主题”进行交谈。我的项目专注于爱丁堡边缘化的塔楼社区，但不限于我长大的时候，我的项目打算向那些经常歪曲或忽略的人发出声音。虽然从奇特的角度（夏洛特产品，杰米·克鲁（Jamie Crewe）等）工作的社会参与的艺术研究项目越来越多，但尝试参与工人阶级和神经差异的主观性问题的尝试较少。我的项目故意“介于两者之间”，部署了一种扩展的当代艺术实践，该实践包含移动图像，声音，拼贴，绘画和安装，以记录在爱丁堡生活的多层多层次的复杂性和意外演变。因此，我的研究实践试图不像一个人在一起，而是保持流动和过渡性（Sedgwick，1994年），并倡导了不同的经历的表达。我的最初方法是基于我自己的历史，经验和家庭/朋友网络。此外，我计划放大我熟悉的环境，以收集与我的研究互动相关的不断增长的社区的材料。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及其围绕工人阶级社区的想法的发展。在这样做的过程中，我的项目挑战了外部和污名化的看法，并提出了对这些社区经历的替代叙述，并具有更广泛的意义，以解决空间正义，少数群体代表和工人阶级历史的问题。