EN The short film ‘Geography of Ghosts’ combines narratives of personal experience with the materiality of the 3D LIDAR scanning process. It unfolds spatial fragments collected in and around Vienna: the interior of a sprawling doctor's office, a subway station, the interior of an asylum shelter in a building once constructed as a hospital and the surroundings of another shelter, embedded in the context of a school, a court and a police station. The result is a visual language that, on the one hand, quotes medical imaging procedures and, on the other, questions the “objective” representations of illness by negotiating past and future wishes, disappointments and hopes.
18:23 Min.
Format
HD 1920 x 1080
Editing & Camera
Dominic Schwab
Script
Wanda Spahl
Voices (German/English/Arabic/Farsi)
Nour Barakeh, Sophia Hörmann, Amrullah Mohmand, Johanna Paschen, Helena Segarra
GoG diskutiert sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung über Fluchtmigration und Gesundheit in einer hybriden Mediengeographie. Eine narrative Landschaft aus (Psycho-)Geographien und persönlichen Maps entfaltet die Erfahrungen von geflüchteten Menschen und Gesundheitsarbeiter:innen. Räumliche Daten, die durch 3D LIDAR Scanning Verfahren erfasst werden, verschmelzen mit persönlichen Geschichten, politischen Aussagen und konzeptionellen Gedanken. Das Projekt befasst sich mit der Un/Sichtbarkeit von geflüchteten Menschen im Gesundheitssystem, gesellschaftlichen Diskurs und öffentlichen Raum. Darüber hinaus ist GOG eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem erkenntnistheoretischen Potenzial von 3D LIDAR Scans. Das Projekt lotet aus, wie diese von konkreten subjektive Erfahrungen abstrahieren und Wissen zu einem allgemeineren Verständnis von (räumlichen Aspekten von) Fluchtmigration und Gesundheit schaffen.
EN The artistic research project ‘Geography of Ghosts. Mapping multiple media/meanings of healthcare for refugees’ was funded in 2022 as part of the competitive project call ON UN/HEALTHY GROUNDS by mLAB, Institute of Geography, University of Bern (CHF 10.000). Geography of Ghosts (GoG) is a collaboration between the social scientist Wanda Spahl (Founder PARABOL) and the architect and filmmaker Dominic Schwab (Founder PARABOL). The project is based on five years of qualitative social research on the health of refugees in Austria.
GoG discusses social science research on refugee migration and health in a hybrid media geography. A narrative landscape of (psycho-)geographies and personal maps unfolds the experiences of refugees and healthcare workers. Spatial data captured through 3D LIDAR scanning processes merge with personal stories, political statements and conceptual thoughts. The project deals with the invisibility of refugees in the healthcare system, social discourse and public space. In addition, GoG is an examination of the epistemological potential of 3D LIDAR scans. The project explores how these abstract from concrete subjective experiences and create knowledge for a more general understanding of (spatial aspects of) refugee migration and health.
Bern (CH)
Institution
mLAB (Transdisciplinary Media Lab, University of Bern)
Support
Mirko Winkel