Rethinking Research in the Art Museum

重新思考艺术博物馆的研究

• 批准号: AH/P009727/1
• 负责人: Emily Pringle
• 金额: $ 9.02万
• 依托单位: Tate
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP009727%2F1
• 关键词: Rethinking; Research; Art; Museum

This fellowship addresses two priorities for Tate and art museums generally: developing research-led practice and greater co-production with audiences. I will examine how practitioner-led co-produced research practices can be embedded in art museums. It has been prompted by a growing interest in framing the art museum as a space for research-led activity that is undertaken by curators and educators working collaboratively with audiences and others. This interest has itself been prompted by criticisms of art museums as sites of cultural exclusivity alongside museum professionals' frustration regarding how their ongoing activities can be understood as research. My project interrogates accepted thinking on research in the art museum by (1) examining and building on a diverse set of existing interdisciplinary literatures not normally used in gallery contexts. And (2) interrogating five comparative case studies of exploratory research-led co-constructed art museum practice. It will develop a context specific framework for practitioner research that foregrounds creativity and innovation and challenges dominant orthodoxies and hierarchies of knowledge. The framework will support museum professionals and researchers to bring about change in art museum research practices. The main output will be a book about emerging models of research being adopted within museums. These models give agency to practitioner researchers who devise programmes, curate exhibitions and facilitate audience engagement and learning and who are, through this, engaged in generating new knowledge and theories. To achieve this, the book will draw on an extensive multidisciplinary literature review and five case studies from the UK, Europe and America to illuminate how different museum practices can be productively understood as research. In building a framework for practitioner research within the art museum, the book will explore connections between research, art practice, curation and learning and draw on theories associated with practice as research and the practitioner scholar. The text will tease out the relevance of these ideas for the art museum sector, reflecting on the challenges inherent in adopting them, but also highlighting the benefits to individuals and institutions of implementing approaches informed by these theories. The framework will be tested with a group of interdisciplinary experts and disseminated to a wider group of museum professionals and researchers via seminars, a research blog, journal articles and the book. The book will thus provide innovative insights and useful guidance for museum professionals and researchers carrying out research in their institutional settings. Overall the fellowship will develop my knowledge, skills and experience enabling me to become a leader in the field of practitioner research in galleries.

该奖学金解决了泰特美术馆和艺术博物馆的两个优先事项：发展以研究为主导的实践和与观众的更多合作。我将研究如何在艺术博物馆中嵌入由博物馆领导的共同制作的研究实践。这是由于人们越来越有兴趣将艺术博物馆构建为一个由策展人和教育工作者与观众和其他人合作开展的研究主导活动的空间。这种兴趣本身是由于对艺术博物馆作为文化排他性场所的批评以及博物馆专业人员对如何将其正在进行的活动理解为研究的沮丧而引起的。我的项目通过（1）检查和建立在一系列现有的跨学科文献上，这些文献通常不会在画廊环境中使用。（2）五个探索性研究主导的共建美术馆实践的比较案例研究。它将为从业者研究制定一个特定的框架，突出创造力和创新，并挑战占主导地位的正统观念和知识层次。该框架将支持博物馆专业人员和研究人员改变艺术博物馆的研究实践。主要成果将是一本关于博物馆正在采用的新兴研究模式的书。这些模式为从业研究人员提供了机构，他们设计方案，策划展览，促进观众参与和学习，并通过这些参与产生新的知识和理论。为了实现这一目标，本书将借鉴广泛的多学科文献综述和来自英国，欧洲和美国的五个案例研究，以阐明如何将不同的博物馆实践有效地理解为研究。在艺术博物馆内建立从业者研究框架的过程中，本书将探讨研究、艺术实践、策展和学习之间的联系，并借鉴与实践相关的理论，作为研究和从业者学者。本文将梳理出这些想法对艺术博物馆部门的相关性，反映采用它们所固有的挑战，但也强调了这些理论对个人和机构实施方法的好处。该框架将由一组跨学科专家进行测试，并通过研讨会、研究博客、期刊文章和书籍传播给更广泛的博物馆专业人员和研究人员。因此，本书将为博物馆专业人员和研究人员在其机构环境中开展研究提供创新的见解和有用的指导。总的来说，奖学金将发展我的知识，技能和经验，使我成为画廊从业者研究领域的领导者。

项目成果

Developing the Practitioner Researcher within the Art Museum

培养美术馆内的实践研究员

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Tate Papers
• 作者: Pringle E