Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience: Creation, Consumption and Exchange

《在遗产体验中绘制当代艺术的地图：创作、消费和交流》是一个跨学科的研究项目，它将批判性地研究临时视觉艺术委托在当今英国遗产财产中的作用和实践，绘制当前的风景，并探索这一活动对其制作人和观众的影响。它从多个角度探讨这一主题，汇集了学者、艺术家、遗产专业人员、志愿者和参观者的知识和经验。艺术品委托一直与英国的伟大历史遗产联系在一起。近几十年来，许多遗产组织大力重新参与当代艺术，投资于此，将其作为开发公众参与遗产财产及其历史的新机会的一种方式。包括英国艺术理事会(ACE)在内的艺术组织从战略上支持这项工作，将其宣传为实现其使命的重要手段，以促进卓越和公共利益。对于许多艺术家来说，为遗产财产委托工作是他们实践中越来越重要的一环。然而，尽管得到了包括国家信托基金和ACE在内的主要组织的大力支持，人们对此类项目对他们的制作人和观众的实际影响知之甚少。同样，对于遗产领域当代艺术的更广泛性质及其委托实践，也几乎没有集体的专业理解。作为与英国两个主要遗产合作伙伴的创意实践引领的合作，该项目为围绕这一重要但未被研究的视觉艺术领域创造新知识做出了强大而独特的贡献。通过以四个遗产财产新艺术委员会的发展为中心的案例研究，该项目将详细探讨当代艺术家如何参与遗产叙事，以及这些艺术品是如何被游客接受和消费的。在进行案例研究的同时，还将编制一种新的在线资源，对现有的此类项目审计工作进行开发、扩展和数字化，使之成为进一步专业交流的公开平台。通过这样做，研究将更好地了解英国当代艺术在遗产实践中的情况及其未来的发展需求。为了实施该项目，来自纽卡斯尔和利兹大学的专家学者和艺术家将与来自遗产组织Art&Heritage的一名专业策展人一起，与ACE、国家信托基金、教堂保护信托基金和当代视觉艺术网络合作。该项目产生的新的理解和见解将在当代艺术和遗产部门传播。这将通过利用为不同目标受众设计的互补渠道来实现：在遗产财产公开展出受委托的艺术品；为在线观众记录项目的网站和博客；为艺术和从业者观众介绍委托过程的项目展览；分发给我们的项目合作伙伴、战略艺术和文物组织和相关政策制定者的研究报告；针对行业专家和学术受众的国际会议；作为面向公众的研究，这个项目将对从业人员、组织和文物参观者以及其他在当代艺术和遗产领域工作的学者，包括以创意实践为首的研究人员，产生特别的好处。它有能力和潜力在英国和国际遗产实践中激发公众对当代艺术的新兴趣，并为该部门提供亟需的新知识，包括为其资助者和政策制定者提供急需的新知识。

'Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience: Creation, Consumption and Exchange' is an interdisciplinary research project that will critically examine the role and practice of temporary visual art commissioning within heritage properties in Britain today, mapping the current landscape and exploring the impact of this activity on its producers and audiences. It approaches this subject from multiple perspectives, bringing together the knowledge and experience of scholars, artists, heritage professionals, volunteers and visitors. Art commissioning has always been linked with Britain's great historic properties. Recent decades have seen many heritage organisations vigorously re-engaging with contemporary art, investing in this as a way of developing new opportunities for public engagement with heritage properties and their histories. Arts organisations including Arts Council England (ACE) strategically support this work, promoting it as a significant means of fulfilling their mission to promote excellence and public benefit. For many artists commissioned work for heritage properties is an increasingly important strand within their practice.However, and despite strong support from major organisations including the National Trust and ACE, the actual impact of such projects on their producers and audiences is poorly understood. Similarly there is little collective professional understanding of the broader character of the contemporary arts in heritage field and its commissioning practices. As a creative practice-led collaboration with two major UK heritage partners this project makes a strong and unique contribution to the production of new knowledge around this significant but under researched area of the visual arts.Through case study research centring on the development of new art commissions at four heritage properties the project will explore in detail how contemporary artists engage with heritage narratives and how these artworks are received and consumed by visitors. The case studies will be accompanied by the production of a new online resource that develops, expands and digitises an existing audit of such projects making this publicly available as a platform for further professional exchange. In doing so the research will generate a better understanding of UK contemporary arts in heritage practice and its future development needs. To deliver the project, specialist scholars and artists from Newcastle and Leeds Universities will be joined by a professional curator from the leading art in heritage organisation Art & Heritage to work in partnership with ACE, The National Trust, Churches Conservation Trust and the Contemporary Visual Art Network. The new understandings and insights generated by the project will be disseminated across the contemporary arts and heritage sectors. This will be achieved through the use of complementary channels designed for different target audiences: the public exhibition of the commissioned artworks at the heritage properties; a website and blog that will document the project for an online audience; a project exhibition profiling the commissioning process for the benefit of an arts and practitioner audience; a research report for circulation to our project partners, strategic arts and heritage organisations and relevant policy makers; an international conference aimed at sector specialists and academic audiences; conference papers and published articles in academic and professional journals.As public facing research this project will have specific benefit for practitioners, organisations and heritage visitors as well as for other academics working in the contemporary arts and heritage field, including creative-practice led researchers. It has the capacity and potential to stimulate new public interest in contemporary arts in heritage practice in the UK and internationally as well as providing much needed new knowledge for the sector, including for its funders and policy makers.