Site-integrity
Grounded in Doreen Massey’s (2006) understanding of place as a dynamic intersection of social, material, and symbolic relations, Site-integrity frames filmmaking as a collective, site-responsive act. Recorded material is presented in the original locations where it was filmed, using custom motorised recording and playback devices. In this context, ‘place’ is understood as both represented and experienced, with the projected image functioning not as a static representation but as a performative, site-reactive tool (Marsh, 2022).
The site-integrity methodology was first introduced in the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) 2019 and further expanded in Site-integrity: An embedded and embodied approach to practice-based research, 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, offering an affective, relational experience that moves beyond traditional modes of representation, explored in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture - The Urgency of the Digital, Jul 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 and dialogue
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.
2024-25
This RIBA-funded project examines the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora. Using the site-integrity methodology, the congregation were directly involved in the capture and analysis of their own cultural heritage through a series of co-created film installations.
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Ambika P3
2021-23
Virtual Assembly is an interactive digital model of Old Kent Road Mosque and MANUK (Muslim Association of Nigeria UK) due to the demolition and redevelopment of their mosque in Southwark.
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Brick Lane Mosque / Old Kent Road Mosque
2018-21
Assembly is a series of site-specific installations that perform Islamic prayer spaces, made and exhibited in Brick Lane Mosque (2018 –19); and Old Kent Road Mosque (2019–20).
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Staffordshire Street Gallery, London
2024
This multi-media exhibition introduces the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of London's oldest Nigerian community, the Old Kent Road Mosque. The work questions the nature of a community archive and explores how the narratives of community members are embedded in and told through the architecture of their sacred spaces.
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V&A Special Project Applied Arts Pavilion - Venice Biennale
2021
In collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum and architect Shahed Saleem the Three British Mosques exhibition was made for the 2021 Venice Biennale. The pavilion looked at the self-built world of adapted mosques.
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2018-21
Siting Cinema visually explores the cinema space as ‘site’ through a series of film installations made in independent art cinemas across the UK.
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