Pictures Not Homes

This is a text about homes and about pictures. An account of a concrete project. Some questions about regeneration and the arts. We are living in the inner-city interstices of 'development': bettering, regeneration. Marooned on our doorsteps, our locality is being emptied and torn. We walk and watch and record. Our project, a floating ligan marking the wreck. We tell the story of digging in to our site: a multi-layered project with entangled narrative encompassing different voices, temporalities and spaces. We capture data with archaeological method in Southwark, in the Home Counties: both dark ages, then and now. We produce files as exhibition. The files travel, re-forming. The sites collapse. We move from archaeological dig to questions of urban organization and inauguration.