trans/media/storytelling
trans|media|storytelling is an interactive, immersive docufiction that delves into themes of transmedia storytelling, memory, and contemporary fiction, posing the question:
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How can queer storying amplify voices of the trans community?
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Key words of this research project include autoethnography, transmedia, agential realism and fiction. My intentions were to combine these topics with immersive narrativization to re-engage with the process of conversation, information gathering, collaborative design and queer storying to generate an authentic, trans voice.
I sought out support from individuals engaged in trans storying through the Bishopsgate Institute, as well as experienced voices on the themes of genderqueer narrativisation of EJ Scott, Josephine Baird and Bones Tan Jones.
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Collage//Gamification//Mixed Media
Mixed media visuals were produced in Blender, Touch Designer, After Effects, Procreate and Premiere Pro. Materials include traditional illustrations, stop-motion imaginings, LIDAR scans and documentary photography. Using primary source material from six interviewed participants, whom share their experiences of transness and the productivities that helped them in their journeying, connections and self-care, the fictional spaces seek to evoke nostalgia and wonder through science fiction, old game aesthetics and generated relationships between author and audience.
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"We have to co-create that space, it's the only way to do it."
Touch Designer, Muse 2 and projection are deployed to carve out space, reflecting on the presence and/or absence of trans identities in historic collections and mainstream media. The instillation loops, continuing to generate its own conversation, all the while inviting the audience to participate within the space by tuning into the transmitted conversations to see more of the piece.
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Playing with transmedia possibilities, initial presentation of the research was shared to a live audience on Twitch, as well as in real life.
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Exhibition
Trans|media|storytelling Research Presentation, Dorando Close, Royal College of Art, May 2023
more tbc
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