Good Neighbours
A digitally enhanced walking documentary
Keep your eyes peeled, things are not what they appear to be. The street needs you! Will you be a Good Neighbour?
Experience an entertaining and provocative personal journey through a neighbourhood in York.
Good Neighbours utilises live performance, surveillance technology and chatbot messaging to take you on a weirdly familiar and speculative documentary walk, via your mobile device.
The work offers a future vision on how communities create spaces of belonging and alienation through media technology. Based on research into intimate surveillance culture in York, it offers a fascinating localised counterpoint to the usual story of mass surveillance by highlighting the micro-politics of a local neighbourhood.
Support
Commissioned by York Mediale (2020)
Kindly supported by York Mediale, Creative Industry Fund NL
Team
Good Neighbours is a project by affect lab (Natalie Dixon & Klasien van de Zandschulp)
Producer Yinka Danmole
Performed in collaboration with Lydia Cottrell
Technology by Arjan Scherpenisse
Design & Illustration by Kgabo Mametja, Koos Groenewald
Production support: Angelina Alle