I think working this way will, in the end, produce a more effective movement and more respect for the practice. So I wanted to really sink my claws into it on the first run and try to get the theoretical gears turning around the practice. The tendency with urban exploration, because it is such a bodily activity, is that it tends to get undertheorized and overachieved. Basically the idea is that it is a film and an academic article, so yes, blind peer reviewed, properly referenced and hopefully theoretical challenging, while at the same time using some visual techniques, such as cutaways, to get the message across in more visceral way. Urban Explorers Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning was picked up early in it s production by the Blackwell journal Geography Compass and was constructed as a sort of experiment in what visual geography could become (maybe in relation to visual anthropology which has been far more successful). How are you going to reconcile these two voices, drives, tendencies? I have to admit the first is as yet too theoretical and the second is almost unwatchable. The first are information-dense and interview-based, the second wandering handheld claustrophobia inducing visual documents. The first is what you are calling a video article, such as in Urban Explorers: Quests of Myth, Mystery and Meaning, and the second is a participatory yet observational documentary on urban spelunking. You are making two types of anthropological cinema. Here’s what we talked about, all images are his. Garrett regarding his recent visual ethnographic fieldwork about urban exploration. I rapped with reformed archaeologist Bradley L.
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