Thursday 21 March 2013
Friday 15 February 2013
Williamsburg_Retracing Memories
When gentrification occurs and urban renewal takes place, we begin to question what happens to the memories embedded in those spaces? Everyday my character is taken on the path to retrace her past footsteps in the hope to regain her memory and therefore identity.
The video reflects her mental monologue as she attempts to gain memory - represented through the blue ink - by traces left on spaces she once inhabited or made connections with. With the take over of the hipster culture within Williamsburg - represented through the black ink - This Hispanic woman is a reflection of the multicultural communities that continue to rely on Williamsburg to contain their culture that has become embedded in the architecture. These communities face the harsh reality that if they resist integration in this new stage of the area, these memories will be lost - along with their identity and their culture.
"…What struck me about this was how completely
each new development obliterated the previous one."
"…but once that new thing was completed it was
as though the previous thing had never been there."
Geoff Dyer
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