The Geography of Community
Producers: Inye Wokoma, Jenny Asarnow
The Geography of Community is a documentary video and community forum project that explores the role of geography in shaping perceptions of community. Focusing African Americans whose communal identity is very much linked to the CD, the new phase of our project will create a series of short documentary style videos that explore how geography informs our ideas of community and identity.
The Geography of Community is being produced by Inye Wokoma and Jenny Asarnow who worked together on The Corner: 23rd Union an interactive radio documentary project which invited current and former residents of the Central District to call an 800 number and listen to and share stories about the intersection. All of the contributed phone messages became a part of an audio mosaic available now on the website 23rdandUnion.org. Selected segments from the phone line were aired on the KUOW 94.9FM, a Seattle National Public Radio affiliate. Photos of current and former Central District residents were taken for the project and displayed as a part of a public art installation in a vacant lot on the corner of 23rd and Union. The public art installation was created by local artists Scratchmaster Joe and NKO.
The Geography of Community is being funded by a grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. Production is slated to begin in January of 2010.
