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Weston Public
WESTON PUBLIC is a site-specific collaborative researchproject that exists at the intersection of documentary filmmaking, architecture and community. A process-oriented project, the final object takes the form of a site-specific multimedia installation that explores the complexity of community experiences in public space in Weston-Mount Dennis, an economically and racially heterogeneous neighbourhood in Toronto’s ‘rust-belt’.Within the conceptual framework of the project, “being in public” is understood as a complex layering of the actions and experiences of people and the architectures within which they enact their experience. A ‘public’ however, as Michael Warner suggests in Publics and Counterpublics, can be understood as a space of discourse organized by nothing other than discourse itself, a space that exists by virtue of being addressed. (Warner: 2002, 67) WESTON PUBLIC manifests this space as a series of narrative video episodes projected inside of architectural models. It is an analysis of the various publics that exist within the neighbourhood today and an interpretation of their perceptions of the urban environment.From Afro-Caribbean men and the space of the barbershop as an extension of the public realm to the historical reverie, teenage appropriation, and clandestine art-parties at Building No.9 (the only remaining building on the brownfields of Kodak Heights), WESTON PUBLIC is a tool to facilitate the neighbourhood’s participation in its own story and transformation. It provides a basis for approaching design that privileges the dreams, desires and experiences of a community over needs-based assessments.Made in collaboration with Sarah Sharkey Pearce,MFA 2010 Documentary Media, Ryerson University Toronto.
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