Abstract
Our latest interactive factual work aims to analyze the wider concept of 'walls', their materiality and role within an urban ecology. The city of Leeds and its socio-anthropological issues is our case study. Leeds is a large urban conglomerate in the North of England that for historical, socio-political and cultural reasons, embodies several aspects of English national contemporary development, such as: economic growth, constant reshaping, mono-ethnic areas, class-divide, inequality etc. The term 'walls' is often used to define a large variety of artefacts and spaces that create, and embody some sort of boundaries. These artefacts often include fences, embankments, roads, gated communities - all structures that divide or limit spaces. In a psychogeographical gesture, this interactive portrait of Leeds will help to reflect on the extent to which these artefacts could hamper some trajectories and facilitate others, as boundaries often become territories themselves. The main aim of this paper is to show how our interactive documentary, through the use of creative practices, could be identify as a territorial study of urban barriers that investigates the convergence of the cultural, the performative and the socio-political. In order to visually represent the above, we are currently using Korsakow as a method of interdisciplinary research and the final output will include a variety of different media: video clips, sound recordings, photographs etc. Furthermore, the process of filming and collecting material is based on the idea of wandering around the city of Leeds and capturing the essence of the idea of ‘Dérive’ within the thematic concept of ‘walls and borders’. Built around Debord’s idea of experimental behavior (1956), Dérive is an unplanned journey through an urban landscape in which participants let themselves be drawn by the terrain and the encounters they make during the whole process. Our main research question can be identified as: Can digital, non-linear interactive audio-visual forms be developed as a method for understanding the challenges of living within ‘urban walls and boundaries’? We believe that the originality of the project mainly resides in the mix methods research approach, which leads and guides the creative practice process.
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