Methodology
A distinctive feature of the methodology is the use of custom motorised recording and playback devices that facilitate a recursive exchange between filming and (re)presentation. Recorded material is returned to, and activated within, the locations where it was originally captured. In doing so, the device operates as an interface, a dynamic network or system of exchange. By situating the viewer in the centre of a changing live space, there is never a point of fixed representation. Site-integrity repositions the act of representation from its retrospective or projective dimensions towards that which is performed and is experiential.
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.