Participation in the Gathering workshop led by visual artist and film-maker Leah Miller.
Themes: film/recording, re-use, working within community
Output: sculptural installation
Excerpt from the brief:
Coatsworth Road in Gateshead is a busy neighbourhood trade run that caters to both discrete communities and several overlapping and mixing cultures. The street is in poor repair but bustling with energy, commerce and sociality. Nevertheless it contends with its own complex issues as big chains move in and independent shops struggle to meet price competition and closures are forced upon them. The street is notable being a mixing point of residential neighbourhood and busy shopping centre, and is characterised by the numbers of pedestrians who stop and chat, often in the road holding up traffic!
This Charrette will employ a series of digital and analogue photographic and filmic techniques to consider the value of the high street, in particular areas which have little or no commercial value but may perform social functions as meeting points which in turn have profound impact on the social and generative potential of the area. Charrette participants will take physical and ephemeral imprints from the site, mapping its past, present and speculative futures through a series of demonstrated analogue and digital techniques such as 8mm and 16mm film, pinhole photography, photograms / contact prints and hand made 16mm structural film animation loops responding to the site. We will use field recording techniques to gather documents of sound in the space.
The images and materials we gather from the workshops and groups working on each technique will form the content of a sculptural installation of prints and projections – each aspect coming together to survey the present and re-engineer and imagine aspects hitherto unnoticed – offering insight into the street’s possible future iterations.
Day One
Taking images on 27 exposure disposable film cameras, we visited Coatsworth Road to record details of the streetscape. Processing of film will take place tomorrow, however I also took several digital images, several of which are attached below in their unedited form, in no particular order.
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