A reparative gaze. Fictioning methodologies for alternative architectural images and narratives. (R-13246)

This proposal aims to explore alternative ways of representing architecture in (moving) images. In particular, it seeks to investigate how 'fictioning' (a term borrowed from David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan) can be used to look at architectural plans and buildings differently. The central question is how documentary and fictional strategies can be used to make visible what is not usually shown in architectural representations. This research aims to show a different view of architecture, a 'reparative' gaze that makes visible certain aspects, experiences, and events that usually go unnoticed in clean, stylized representations. A gaze that gives access to the experiential process of making and living. 'Fictioning' allows for notions of temporality, process, and imagination to unfold and be linked to the documentary experience; to make the invisible visible; to create a fictional context for the place and its users, to grant a tactile view through materials, performative actions or interventions. The central question is how documentary 'fictioning' can be used as a creative method of speaking about past and future, about ways of living that deviate from a privileged norm, as an antidote to forgetting.

Keywords:architecture, images and narratives

Disciplines:Criticism and theory, Experimental film, Performance art