Moving OnSite specific video installation created in collaboration with Allen Ball. Through a series of still and moving digital video projections the project, Moving on, engages with the specific realities and particularities of the Boyle Street neighbourhood. The work plays on the tension between the individual and the collective—the making, sustaining and transforming of communities acted out on the level of gesture. Moving on draws on the contentious history of the Boyle Street neighbourhood. This history has been chronicled cyclically in newspaper articles and planning documents for over sixty years. Caught within the Edmonton City Archives, the images and language in these documents reveal a whole neighbourhood rendered simultaneously as an object of social engineering experiments, utopian visions or dystopian prognoses. By appropriating the language and images that frame this discourse, our project directly responds to these conflicted representations of the Boyle Street neighbourhood. Our engagement centres upon this community’s present transitional moment. Our central strategy comingles text and image to tease out subtleties, slippages and complexities that undercut the simplistic narratives of Boyle Street. Moving on speaks directly to these narratives by re-presenting the life of this community today.
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