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Methodology


KeywordsSite-specific, site-responsive, filmmaking, socio-spatial agency, embodied, co-creative, marginalised communities Site-integrity is a site-specific, process-driven research methodology developed by Julie Marsh that positions artistic practice as a reflexive mode of knowledge production through embodied, place-based enquiry. It fosters ethical, co-creative engagement and supports the socio-spatial agency of marginalised communities. Informed by Doreen Massey’s (2006) understanding of place as a dynamic intersection of social, material, and symbolic relations, Site-integrity conceives filmmaking as a collective, site-responsive act. Using custom motorised recording and playback devices, recorded material is re-presented in the locations where it was originally filmed. In this context, place is not simply represented but actively experienced—the projected image becomes a performative, site-reactive tool rather than a static depiction (Marsh, 2022).

The site-integrity methodology was first introduced in the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) 2019 and further expanded in Scene, Volume 11, 2023. This co-creative approach also extends to the creation of digital, living archives that empower communities to narrate their own spaces as living, emergent entities. This offers an affective, relational experience that moves beyond traditional modes of representation, explored in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture - The Urgency of the Digital, 2025.

Community co-creation

Collaboration sits at the heart of site-integrity. Communities are positioned as active participants and co-authors, not subjects. Building trust, reciprocity, and shared authorship ensures that local voices meaningfully shape the work’s development and representation.

Ethical filmmaking

Using motorised camera devices, site-integrity articulates the material, architectural, institutional, and social dimensions of place through an ethically and culturally informed lens, challenging extractive representational practices.

In-site exchange

Exploring film as an expanded, site-responsive practice, site-integrity bridges real and representational space. It creates critical, experiential platforms that challenge dominant narratives and reframe how social spaces are encountered and understood.
Related Articles:

 JAR (Journal for Artist Research), Issue 19, 2019
Site-integrity: a dynamic exchange between site, artist, device and audience

Urgency of the Digital special issue, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2025Virtual Assembly: Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of London’s Oldest Nigerian Mosque and its Community


Projects

Moving Pictures
ZOROASTRIAN CENTRE LONDON
Invisible Practices
VARIOUS SITES ALICANTE
Faith, Place & Migration
STAFFORDSHIRE STREET GALLERY LONDON
Assembly
BRICK LANE MOSQUE LONDON
Virtual Assembly
OLD KENT ROAD MOSQUE LONDON
Three British Mosques
APPLIED ARTS PAVILION VENICE
Checkpoint 300
CHECKPOINT 300 WEST BANK PALASTINE
Siting Cinema
RIO CINEMA LONDON
Lokomotywownia
TRAIN DEPOT KRAKOW



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