Image credit Ella Bean
Chapel Street or Wherever You Are (January 2021) is a walk, an audio work, a zine, a set of score cards and a map. It takes you on a tour of this important street in Salford, and can be played with on the site or wherever else you happen to be, as a way of thinking about the hauntological aspects of where you are.
This work was produced as part of our PhD research, and looked at the changing landscape of a street known for its social history and (apocryphal) role in Marxism. (A pub, The Crescent, is said to be where Marx and Engels met to discuss communism). The writing that accompanied this considered our role as peripatetic workers and renters: both a symptom of and contributing factor to gentrification, and our own conflicts with wanting to feel at home in often temporary housing situations. It is designed to be interacted with whether you are on Chapel Street or elsewhere, allowing the walker to think about their own role in the landscape.
The QR code on the back of the zine will take you to the
below audio.
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