In-Visible Difference: Dance, Disability and Law

该项目旨在扩展当前对世纪行为艺术家作品的制作、地位、所有权和价值的思考。它将通过专注于一种艺术形式来做到这一点;舞蹈，特别是残疾舞蹈艺术家制作和表演的舞蹈。通过考虑对创作、解释和作者身份的不同理论和实践看法，以及对法律在创作实践中的作用的不同观点，该项目将调查现有的理论和法律的框架如何帮助或阻碍残疾舞蹈艺术家参与主流表演。我们将在残疾人和法律所阐述的残疾模型中调整这一调查;我们将借鉴编舞者和舞者对舞蹈结构的经验观察，并将其映射到法律的框架中。在这样做的过程中，该项目将揭示和发现关于残疾舞蹈艺术家创作和表演的舞蹈如何有助于我们的文化生活的新思维方式，并将寻求为改变法律的景观的新理论框架奠定基础。因此，该项目将具有更广泛的应用和影响，通过确定承认知识产权的新模式，以及对在学院内外的文化和法律的社区工作的人可能产生的影响。残疾人舞蹈被选为案例研究，因为残疾舞蹈演员面临特殊的挑战。尽管专业舞蹈界的许多人支持取消将残疾表演者归类为“其他”的“包容性”等标签，但残疾艺术家要完全融入主流表演还有很长的路要走。除了它们的相对隐蔽性之外，还缺乏可靠的模型来识别作者身份和舞蹈知识产权的所有权。该项目将严格评估相关的监管框架，包括版权，法律的/医疗框架的残疾和人权在英国，欧盟和国际。它将评估这些框架在多大程度上是互补和/或冲突的，是修辞性的还是实际的，以及它们在多大程度上鼓励创造性及其传播。该项目将汇集来自两个不同学科的研究人员-舞蹈和法律-并借鉴艺术和社会科学的概念和方法。我们将与舞蹈艺术家，残疾人和非残疾人，以及艺术专业人士和政策制定者合作进行研究，以发现艺术家如何看待他们在创作过程中与他人的关系，以及他们的体现和身体习性的经验。然后，我们将通过学术出版物，政策文件和通过一系列公共活动传播研究，其中一些与表演相结合，与利益相关者建立积极的对话，包括舞蹈艺术家，教育工作者和政策制定者。因此，该项目的一个核心组成部分是研究人员和从业人员之间的知识交流以及不同学科领域的知识分布。这将提高人们对残疾人面临的特殊挑战和机遇的认识，并加强对工作实践和支持艺术家工作的法律的框架进行变革（必要时）的理由。最重要的是，该项目将寻求增强残疾舞蹈艺术家的能力，并加强他们在我们文化环境中的地位。

This Project sets out to extend current thinking about the making, status, ownership and value of work by performance artists in the 21st century. It will do so by focusing on one art form; dance, and specifically dance made and performed by disabled dance artists. By considering different theoretical and practical perceptions of creation, interpretation and authorship, and different perspectives on the role of law in relation to creative practice, the Project will investigate how existing theoretical and legal frameworks might help or hinder the participation of disabled dance artists in mainstream performance. We will align that enquiry within models of disability articulated by disabled people and by the law; and we will draw on empirical observation of the construction of dance as developed by choreographers and dancers and map that on to the legal framework. In so doing, the Project will both uncover and discover new ways of thinking about how dance made and performed by disabled dance artists contributes to our cultural life, and it will seek to lay the foundations for a new theoretical framework for transforming the legal landscape. The Project will thus have much wider application and impact, by identifying new models for recognising intellectual property and what the implications might be for those working within the cultural and legal communities, within and beyond the Academy.Disabled dance has been chosen as a case study because dancers with disabilities confront particular challenges. Despite many within the professional dance community supporting the removal of labels such as 'inclusive', which categorise disabled performers as 'other', there is still a long way to go before disabled artists are fully integrated within mainstream performance. Adding to their relative invisibility is a dearth of robust models for identifying authorship and ownership of dance's intellectual property. The Project will critically evaluate relevant regulatory frameworks, including copyright, the legal/medical framework for disability and human rights within the UK, the European Union, and internationally. It will assess the extent to which these frameworks are complementary and/or conflictory, rhetorical or practical, and the degree to which they encourage creativity and its dissemination. The Project will bring together researchers from two different disciplines - dance and law - and draws on concepts and methods from the arts and social sciences. We will conduct our research in collaboration with dance artists, both disabled and non-disabled, and with arts professionals and policymakers, to discover how artists view their role in the creative process in relation to others, and their experience of embodiment and bodily habitus. We will then disseminate the research via scholarly publications, policy papers and via a series of public events, some in conjunction with performances, to establish positive dialogues with and between stakeholders, including dance artists, educators and policymakers. A core component in the Project is therefore the knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners and the distribution of knowledge across different discipline areas. This will raise awareness of the particular challenges and opportunities faced by disabled people and strengthen the case for change (where necessary) in working practices and the legal frameworks that underpin the artists' work. Above all the Project will seek to empower disabled dance artists and strengthen their place in our cultural milieu.