Neighbourhood narratives
More situated storytelling.Hana Iverson introduced Neighbourhood Narratives from a project in the Eldridge Street Synagogue in the Lower East Side, New York. It became the place for an installation called View from the Balcony
She described her work with Jewish women, "My story is more Life in the Fragment. Dealing with layers of the community."
From the website. The central motif of the video presentation at the Eldridge Street Synagogue is the gesture of mending. Sewing is a traditional female task, and here acts as a metaphor related to rifts and healing.
Hana is part of the Faculty at Temple University - where students are producing narratives tracking their lives through the city.
Nick West introduced Digital Geographies - the same meaning as Mediascapes.
He suggested they stretch definition of story and stretch boundary of the city to find out what it becomes when we participate in it.
He explained Urban Tapestries. In one example "stickies" were given to people in the city to make comments on a place and then to stick them on the map.
What people said:
- I was here
- Architectural comments
- History and other tours
- Messages to friends
- Stories
- Some were WAY miscellaneous. e.g. One woman identified all the places she had fights with her boyfriend!
posted by Dawnriser @ 20:24
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