Dr Julie Marsh
Julie Marsh is an artist-filmmaker and researcher at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and is the research lead for the Arts, Communication, and Culture Research Community at the University of Westminster. Julie is a specialist in collaborative, inclusive and knowledge-led approaches to field research and in 2017 she coined the term ‘site-integrity’ (S-I) as part of her practice-based PhD at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Through the exploration of real and representational space S-I investigates how technical machines can 'perform' site through an ethically and culturally informed lens, creating critical experiences for audiences that open debate and question social spaces. She has exhibited internationally, most recently as part of the Three British Mosques at Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.
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Julie’s research focuses on a collaborative and inclusive approach to arts-based inquiry, spanning both local and global contexts. In 2017 she coined the term 'site-integrity' (S-I), a working methodology which presents ‘place’ as dualistically experienced and represented. S-I re-presents recorded material back in the site it was filmed using motorised rigs, defining spatial position and context. This enables an exact transfer of scale and time as the pre-recorded image maps the architectural site “as a kind of matching of the world with its representations or, rather, a bringing of the two into critical conjunction” (Hamlyn, 2003).
In site-integrity place is apparatus, in each specific site the recording device operates in a distinctly different manner providing different techniques and outcomes. The motorised rig is used as a creature of autonomy, a source of possibility through which site materiality might be found and shared. The artistic device allows for a clear articulation of the material, architectural, social, and institutional discourses present in the site since it constitutes an interface between them, a dynamic network or system of exchange.
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‘Site-integrity’ was featured in the Journal for Artistic Research, Issue 19 (2019). This exposition presents three specific projects; Assembly, Moving Site/Sight and Screen Space that are examples of artistic devices that contribute to site-integrity.
The research findings have been shared internationally at conferences and journals within the fields of performance, architecture, arts and religion such as the book British Mosques publication was produced as a collaboration between the V&A and CREAM.