Modern Fairies and Loathly Ladies

在现代英国文化中，关于仙女的民间故事已成为孩子们的领地。然而，《指环王》、《权力的游戏》和《魔兽世界》等作品的成功证明，在当今世界，其他类型的传统故事仍然有能力吸引成年观众和读者。托尔金和马丁利用欧洲神话和传说构建了他们的故事世界，取得了惊人的成功。《现代仙女与厌恶的女士》将聚焦于英国关于仙女和超自然现象的民间故事和歌曲的故事世界，探索获奖艺术家如何重新调解这些材料，使其与现代观众相关。Carolyne Larrington （Co-I）将通过档案研究发掘出一些不太为人所知和不寻常的关于仙女和超自然现象的故事。拉灵顿将以通俗易懂的形式呈现中世纪英语、拉丁语和现代英语记录的浪漫、民间故事、民谣和轶事中的故事、主题和场景，必要时进行翻译和注释，使学术性和晦涩的内容变得生动易懂。拉灵顿将策划六个民俗主题：男性精灵；仙女的女性、易变的孩子、易变的讨厌的女人、人类在仙女世界的体验和仙女宝藏的价值。与这些主题相关的材料将呈现给12位世界级的艺术家，他们在不同的媒体领域工作，从民间音乐家（包括PI， Fay hileld）和故事讲述者，到视觉艺术家和诗人。他们将从主题中选择故事、场景和时刻，并将在传统材料的基础上合作创作新的歌曲、故事、诗歌和艺术品。开放的笔记本、博客和协作共享将使人们能够在工作进行时洞察不同媒体的创作过程。这些新作品将在塞奇盖茨黑德的六次非正式“聚会”中向公众展示。这种表演形式是开放式和灵活的，允许艺术家和导演对个人观众和主题产生的不同材料做出反应。一位艺术家将负责指导和策划每个“聚会”。各种艺术形式（音乐、绘画、诗歌、讲故事）将出现在每一次“聚会”中；鼓励和邀请艺术家与观众互动。不同类型的节目单和主题的非正式口头介绍将为艺术家的创作锦上添花。观众调查将由Sarah Price（注册会计师）使用基于谈话的方法进行。项目负责人及其合作伙伴将能够了解观众如何参与以传统主题为主题的新艺术，他们发现民间故事叙事和主题与他们自己的生活有多大的相关性，什么样的节目说明和其他补充材料会增强或削弱观众的体验，以及如何通过当地和传统故事的调解吸引和培养新的观众。因此，该项目将创作艺术家在作品进行阶段的经验和知识表面化，并通过有针对性的定性访谈深入到观众和表演者的体验中。此外，该项目代表了未来独立表演艺术作品的创造性发展阶段，将与Sage Gateshead合作制作。此外，该项目通过表演来测试“聚会”作为艺术发展形式的可行性。从来源研究，到向艺术家展示、创作和观众参与的表演，再到持久的产出，这种创造性和响应性的方法将为社区艺术干预和体验创造一种新的模式。

Folktales about fairies have become the province of children in modern British culture. Yet the success of works such as Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and World of Warcraft has proved that other kinds of traditional tales still have power to enthral adult audiences and readers in today's world. Tolkien and Martin use European myth and legend to build their storyworlds with stunning success. Modern Fairies and Loathly Ladies will focus on the storyworld of British folk-tales and -songs about fairies and the supernatural, to explores how this material can be re-mediated by award-winning artists to be made relevant to modern audiences. Less-well-known and unusual stories involving fairies and the supernatural will be unearthed through archive research by Carolyne Larrington (Co-I). Larrington will present the tales, motifs and scenes from romance, folk-tale, ballad, and anecdote, recorded in Middle English, Latin and modern English in accessible forms, where necessary translating and glossing, so that the academic and obscure becomes relatable and vivid. Larrington will curate six folkloric themes: the fairy masculine; the fairy feminine, the changeling child, the shape-changing loathly lady, human experience in the fairy-world and the value of fairy treasure. Material relating to these themes will be presented to twelve world-class artists working in a range of different media, from folk musicians (including the PI, Fay Hield) and storytellers, to visual artists and poets. They will choose stories, scenes, and moments from the themes, and will work collaboratively to produce new songs, stories, poems and artworks based on the traditional material. Open notebooks, blogs and collaborative sharing will enable insight into the creative processes across different media while work is in progress.The new artworks produced will be performed to the public in six informal 'Gatherings' at Sage Gateshead. This performance format is open-ended and flexible, allowing artist and director responsiveness to individual audiences and the varying materials produced by the themes. One artist will take the lead in directing and curating each 'gathering'. A variety of art forms (music, painting, poetry, story-telling) will feature in every 'Gathering'; artist-audience interaction will be encouraged and invited. Programme notes of different types, and informal spoken introductions to themes will complement the artists' creations. Audience research will be carried out by Sarah Price (RA) using talk-based methods. The project leaders and their partners will be enabled to understand how audiences engage with new art drawing on traditional themes, how relevant they find folk-tale narratives and motifs to their own lives, what kinds of programme notes and other complementary materials enhance or detract from the audience experience, and how new audiences can be attracted and grown through local and traditional story mediation. Thus the project surfaces the experience and knowledge of creative artists in the work in progress stage and drills down into audience and performer experience through targeted qualitative interviews. In addition, this project represents a creative developmental phase for a future free-standing performance-based artwork, to be produced in collaboration with the Sage Gateshead. Moreover, the project tests the viability of 'gatherings' as a format for artistic development through performance.The inventive and responsive methodology, from source-research, through presentation to artists, creative composition and audience-engaged performance, to lasting outputs, will produce a new model for community-based arts interventions and experiences.