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Bodies of Planned Obsolescence: Digital performance and the global politics of electronic waste

计划报废机构：数字性能和电子垃圾的全球政治

基本信息

批准号：
AH/L01582X/1
负责人：
Daniel Ploeger
金额：
$ 4.48万
依托单位：
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL01582X%2F1
关键词：
Bodies Planned Obsolescence Digital performance

项目摘要

The United Kingdom is one of Europe's main producers of electronic-waste (e-waste). Despite strict EU regulations and control programmes, a substantial part of British e-waste is exported to developing countries, where it is often recycled through environmentally harmful methods or dumped in unprotected areas, causing severe environmental damage accompanied by a range of socio-cultural problems. Despite this, public debate on digital technologies in Britain and other post-industrial countries has been primarily focused on the economic and social benefits of technological innovation.Digital performance arts practices have largely been complicit in this narrative. On the one hand, their primary interest has been in the exploration and showcasing of state of the art innovations; on the other, critical practices in the field have been restricted to the politics of a western, post-industrial cultural framework. Digital performance arts practitioners have rarely engaged with the material and socio-economic aspects of technology in terms of their production, and their 'afterlife' as electronic waste. Bodies of Planned Obsolescence is a one-year international research networking project in which performance artists, art curators, scientists and cultural theorists will exchange and develop performance-based approaches to digital arts and the cultural and environmental aspects of the global economy of electronic waste. By re-functioning e-waste materials, digital arts practices will make the economic and ecological issues visible. By interaction with colleagues from other disciplines, the artists' impact will be augmented by scientific and socio-economic findings. The network overall will develop innovative international research collaborations with researchers from the UK as a country that exports a substantial part of its e-waste, and two countries that import e-waste: Nigeria and China. This project will include the following key elements:-Launch event at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London-Workshop & symposium in Hong Kong and Guiyu, China, combining paper and performance presentations with participation in labour processes at an e-waste recycling facility.-Workshop & symposium in Lagos Nigeria, including practice-based explorations of e-waste dumping sites.-Public conference/arts event at Watermans Art Centre in London, UK, which combines academic presentations with the creation of new performance work with electronic waste re-imported from Nigeria.The focus on digital performance practices in Bodies of Planned Obsolescence is driven by the notion that critical practices in performance arts can constitute an intervention in broader cultural performative practices around understandings of - and engagement with - technology. An innovative aspect of Bodies of Planned Obsolescence is its methodological approach to practice-based research, which builds on anthropologist Tim Ingold's insight that not only art, but also anthropology, archaeology, and architecture should be practiced as 'thinking through making', instead of a focus on theorizing an externalized world..Bodies of Planned Obsolescence seeks to extend Ingold's approach into collaborative work in the field of science and arts. Thus, practice-based research in digital performance arts is not only conceived as building on - and responding to - academic and scientific theory, as is often the case in science-arts collaborations, but also constitutes a process of 'blue-sky' experimentation, which may play an initiating role in discourse and research in other disciplines, as well as establish alternate modes of dissemination of scientific and humanities research on e-waste outside academia.

联合王国是欧洲主要的电子废物生产国之一。尽管有严格的欧盟法规和控制方案，英国的电子废物有很大一部分出口到发展中国家，在那里，这些废物往往通过有害环境的方法回收，或倾倒在未受保护的地区，造成严重的环境破坏，并伴随着一系列社会文化问题。尽管如此，在英国和其他后工业化国家，关于数字技术的公众辩论主要集中在技术创新的经济和社会效益上，数字表演艺术在很大程度上参与了这一叙事。一方面，他们的主要兴趣是探索和展示最先进的创新;另一方面，该领域的批评实践仅限于西方后工业文化框架的政治。数字表演艺术从业者很少参与技术的物质和社会经济方面的生产，以及他们作为电子废物的“来世”。计划中的过时机构是一个为期一年的国际研究网络项目，其中表演艺术家，艺术策展人，科学家和文化理论家将交流和发展基于表演的数字艺术方法以及全球电子废物经济的文化和环境方面。通过重新利用电子垃圾材料，数字艺术实践将使经济和生态问题变得可见。通过与来自其他学科的同事的互动，艺术家的影响力将通过科学和社会经济研究结果得到增强。该网络总体上将与英国的研究人员开展创新的国际研究合作，英国是一个出口电子废物的国家，以及两个进口电子废物的国家：尼日利亚和中国。该项目将包括以下关键要素：-在伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆举行的启动活动-在香港和中国贵屿举行的研讨会和研讨会，将纸张和性能演示与参与电子废物回收设施的劳动过程相结合。在尼日利亚的拉各斯举办研讨会和专题讨论会，包括基于实践的电子废物倾倒地点探索。在英国伦敦沃特曼艺术中心举行的公共会议/艺术活动，该项目将学术演讲与利用从尼日利亚重新进口的电子废物创作新的表演作品相结合。对《计划淘汰的身体》中数字表演实践的关注是由以下概念驱动的，即表演艺术中的批评实践可以构成对更广泛的文化表演实践的干预，围绕对以下内容的理解和参与：技术.《有计划的过时的身体》的一个创新方面是其基于实践研究的方法论，它建立在人类学家蒂姆·英戈尔德的洞察力之上，即不仅艺术，而且人类学、考古学和建筑学都应该被实践为“通过制造来思考”，而不是专注于理论化一个外在的世界。《有计划的过时的身体》试图将英戈尔德的方法扩展到科学和艺术领域的合作工作中。因此，在数字表演艺术的实践为基础的研究不仅被认为是建立在-和响应-学术和科学理论，因为往往是在科学艺术合作的情况下，但也构成了一个过程中的“蓝天”实验，这可能会发挥在其他学科的话语和研究的启动作用，以及建立在学术界之外传播关于电子废物的科学和人文研究的替代模式。