Arts-science collaboration, embodied research methods, and the politics of belonging: ‘SiteWorks’ and the Shoalhaven River, Australia
Arts-science collaboration, embodied research methods, and the politics of belonging: ‘SiteWorks’ and the Shoalhaven River, Australia
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艺术与科学的合作、具体研究方法和归属政治：“SiteWorks”和澳大利亚肖尔黑文河
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2014
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Leah M. Gibbs
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艺术与科学的合作在地理学和其他学科中越来越受到关注，部分原因在于其“开展”社会、文化和政治工作的能力。本文探讨了 SiteWorks 的工作，这是由澳大利亚上市公司 Bundanon Trust 发起的一系列项目。 SiteWorks 吸引了艺术从业者、科学家、其他学者和当地人创作作品，以响应澳大利亚东南部肖尔黑文河上的 Bundanon 遗址。本文借鉴了我作为 SiteWorks 参与者的经验，并提出了两个问题。这种艺术与科学的合作对理解这个网站的超人类世界有何贡献？协作性、具体化研究方法的方法论含义是什么？研究发现 SiteWorks 体现了一种归属感政治。理解归属感对于植物和动物生命的思考和行动，以及人类身份、本土和迁徙等备受争议的领域都有影响。要学会适应当代环境变化带来的突发事件，必须打破固有的归属感。在这里我提出一个“经过的地方”；一个虽然不是永久居住但仍然至关重要的地方。其次，研究发现协作的、具体化的研究方法揭示并挑战了我们的实践，引发了新的调查模式，并对场所和实践提出了新的问题和见解。具身方法提高了人们对人类世界以外的世界的认识，为更加道德的共存提供了机会。目前，学院越来越关注影响力和非传统产出。尽管面临持续的挑战，协作的、具体的研究实践提供了解决这些迫切需要的一种途径。
Arts-science collaboration is gaining increasing attention in geography and other disciplines, in part due to its ability to ‘do’ social, cultural and political work. This paper considers the work of SiteWorks, a series of projects initiated by Bundanon Trust – an Australian public company. SiteWorks involves arts practitioners, scientists, other scholars and local people creating works in response to the Bundanon site, on the Shoalhaven River, southeastern Australia. The paper draws on my experience as a SiteWorks participant, and poses two questions. What does this arts-science collaboration contribute to an understanding of the more-than-human world of this site? What are the methodological implications of the collaborative, embodied research methodology? The study finds that SiteWorks informs a politics of belonging. Understanding belonging has implications for thinking and action towards plant and animal life, and for the highly contested realms of human identity, indigeneity and migration. Unsettling fixed notions of belonging is essential for learning to live with the contingency presented by contemporary environmental change. Here I propose a ‘passing-through place’; a place not permanently dwelt in but vital nonetheless. Secondly, the study finds that collaborative, embodied research methodology reveals and challenges our practices, invites new modes of investigation, and presents new questions and insights into place and practice. Embodied methods heighten awareness of the more-than-human world, presenting opportunity for more ethical co-existence. The academy is presently witnessing increasing attention to impact and non-traditional output. Despite ongoing challenges, collaborative, embodied research practice presents one avenue for attending to these imperatives.