Rock/Body: Performative interfaces between the geologic and the body

岩石/身体汇集了来自艺术和人文，社会科学，地球科学，健康和实践艺术家的研究人员，以调查地质和人体之间的表演界面。从地质学的角度来看，它将超越自然/文化的界限，将人体表演视为地质物质和力量的表现，以及暴露和应对地球系统未来动态变化的主要场所。与电影《比利·埃利奥特》中所呈现的紧张关系不同，电影中的紧张关系表现在煤炭开采的艰苦景观与看似女性化或阉割中产阶级和城市芭蕾舞世界之间，该研究网络将研究矿工和采石工的劳动身体和舞蹈演员的表演身体，如果放在一起而不是分开考虑，它们如何成为探索地质学和生物学如何在具体人体中融合并影响其文化生产形式的独特场所。此外，鉴于在最近的科学话语中，普遍化的“人类”被不加批判地假定为主导的地质因素，该项目将对这种普遍化的人类概念提出问题，并将其开放给现有的关于种族、阶级、性别、性取向和能力的学术辩论，以及不同的身体可能对地球变化过程有不同的脆弱性，并且在它们的能力方面拥有不同的启示。来充当地质代理人。为了充分解决这些问题，需要在学者、科学家和创造性从业者的支持下采取跨学科和跨学科的协作方法，这些人很少有机会以非等级的方式相互交流知识和方法。因此，通过这种岩石/身体界面的重新概念化，网络将解决更广泛的问题，在科学，艺术和人文学科的交叉点。即：种族，阶级，性别和性别差异与人类作为地质主体和代理人的角色有关;在两种岩石中发现的矿物枯竭的政治美学（采矿和采石）和人体因高强度劳动和工作而筋疲力尽;以及对时间的感知，以及美学可能成为一个特权场所的方式，从那里可以获得更丰富的经验和对深层时间的知识，以及新人类与地质学的联系。该网络的中心将是2016年举行的三场研究研讨会，共有23名科学家、人文学者和创意从业者参加。首次以“肉体/矿物质”为主题的研讨会将在诺丁汉的英国地质调查局举行。第二个是“提取/耗尽”，第三个是“时间/持续时间”，都将在埃克塞特大学举行（一个在康沃尔校区;另一个在埃克塞特主校区）。虽然仅限于与会者，研讨会也将通过新闻稿，一个可公开访问的互动网站和Twitter饲料面向外界，参观者将能够评论和讨论每个研讨会的程序，以及免费公开展出参与艺术家的作品，包括一个特别委托的特定地点的表演作品，以回应网络。除此之外，更广泛的学术受众还将通过PI和Co-I撰写的文章并提交给同行评审期刊以及组织的会议小组来了解网络的活动，并建议举办一次重大国际学术会议。希望该网络将为未来的跨学科和跨学科研究项目以及学者和创意从业者之间的新合作创造条件，从而延长赠款的期限。

Rock/Body brings together researchers from the arts and humanities, social sciences, earth sciences, health, and practicing artists to investigate the performative interfaces between the geologic and the human body. It will move beyond the nature/culture divide geologically, by taking performing human bodies as both expressions of geological matter and forces, and prime sites of exposure and response to future changes in the dynamics of earth systems.Departing from the tension presented in the film "Billy Elliot" between the hard-labouring landscape of coal extraction and the seemingly feminine or emasculating middle-class and urban world of ballet dancing, the research network will examine the ways in which the labouring bodies of miners and quarrymen and the performing bodies of dancers might, when thought together rather than separately, constitute privileged sites for exploring how geology and biology might converge in concrete human bodies and affect their forms of cultural production. Further, and given the way in which a universalising "humanity" has been uncritically posited as dominant geological agent in recent scientific discourse, the project will problematise such universalising conception of humanity and open it up to existing scholarly debates on race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability, and the ways in which differentiated bodies might be differently vulnerable to changing earth processes and possess different affordances when it comes to their ability to act as geological agents. To adequately address those issues calls for collaborative cross- and inter-disciplinary approaches supported by scholars, scientists, and creative practitioners who are seldom given the chance to exchange knowledge and methodologies with one another in a non-hierarchical manner. Thus, through such reconceptualisation of rock/body interfaces, the network will address wider questions at the intersection of the sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Namely: racial, class, gender and sexual difference in relation to the role of humanity as both geologic subject and agent; the political aesthetics of mineral depletion as it is found in both rocks (mined and quarried) and human bodies exhausted by high-intensity labour and performance; and perception of time and the ways in which the aesthetic might be a privileged site from where richer experiences and knowledge of deep time might be drawn, and new human affiliations with the geologic, enacted. At the centre of the network will be a series of three research seminars taking place in 2016 involving a total of 23 participants amongst scientists, humanities scholars, and creative practitioners. The first seminar on the theme of "Flesh/Minerality" will be held at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham. The second, on "Extraction/Exhaustion," and the third, on "Time/Duration," will both take place at the University of Exeter (one at the Cornwall campus; the other at the main Exeter campus).Although limited to the participants, the seminars will also face outwards via press releases, a publicly accessible interactive website and Twitter feed where visitors will be able to comment and discuss the proceedings of each seminar, and a free public exhibition of works by participating artists, including a specially-commissioned site-specific performance piece created in response to the network. Further to that, wider academic audiences will also have access to the activities of the network through an article to be written by the PI and Co-I and submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, and a conference panel to be organised and proposed to a major international academic conference. It is hoped that the network will foster the conditions for future inter- and cross-disciplinary research projects as well as new collaborations between academics and creative practitioners, thus extending beyond the duration of the grant.