Controversial Transmedia Narratives

From streets to networks in (un)inhabitable places

Resumen

This article weaves preambles accrued from a doctoral research entitled Controversial Transmedia Narratives: from streets to networks in (un)inhabitable places, with the simultaneous development of a written thesis and a transmedia work-installation. The inquery is lined on the controversies that permeate (in)visibility and (hyper)visibility in the streets and explores the relationship between the seen and the unseen, between the heard and the unheard in the social context. The digital media-art work- installation, entitled (Un)inhabitable Places, is a transmedia project laboured from questionings that emerge from the homeless people vulnerability situation, where the aim is to highlight the non-­place as a passageway place where these people, in vulnerability process, survive. (Un)habitable Places is composed by sounds and images captured from the streets, in (auto) biographical narratives, which incorporate life and death histories. The investigation searches for answers in spatial, aesthetic and artistic reshuffles for the knowledge framing from dialogues between different types of knowledge, based on the transmedia potentiality exploitation and betakes to theoretical references about narratives (Benjamin, 1987), contextualized in the postmodern liquid world (Bauman, 2001), from populations that inhabit non-places (Augé, 2001). As a methodological basis, it relies on A/r/cography (Veiga, 2021), as a tool for recording and analyzing the creative process and on Cartography of Controversies (Latour, 2012) to reflect about social spaces. With the perspective of (inter)injuring artistically and socially through aesthetic (auto)biographical narratives embodied in a reflexive, articulated and idiosyncratic way, the work-installation is resourcefully architected as understanding and analysis instruments from the life visibility processes on street situation and spatial occupation in the ubiquitous contemporary world.