A Vision for Europe: Academic Responsibility and Action in Times of Crises

欧洲愿景：危机时期的学术责任和行动

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S003231/1
负责人：
Mick FINCH
金额：
$ 4.53万
依托单位：
University of the Arts London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS003231%2F1
关键词：
Vision Europe Academic Responsibility Action

项目摘要

The network examines the key question of academic responsibility and action in times of crises, focusing its enquiry particularly on the scholarly use of image-led practices to comment and shape political reality. Central to this enquiry is a unique engagement with the little-explored material archive of British Art and the Mediterranean (BAM), a photographic exhibition curated by Fritz Saxl and Rudolf Wittkower in England in 1941, which asserted Britain's cultural connections with Europe. The network brings together artists, historians, media theorists, curators, journalists, photographers and activists to reactivate this unique archival resource and to make it accessible following the methodology of the digital humanities.BAM was organised by the Warburg Institute and leveraged a European history of art through new media, namely photographic reproductions of historical artworks. It expressed ideas of cultural continuities between Britain and Europe at a critical time of conflict. Consisting of 500 photographs, the exhibition was representative of the new art-historical approach imported from Germany via the Warburg Institute, namely an image-driven enquiry about cultural transmission. The exhibition was shown in London and in 20 other cities around Britain, taking its educatory ideas to as wide an audience as possible. Thus, foreign academic expertise converted into a highly successful enterprise with no compromise in its standards, due to the support of British institutions (CEMA) and key public figures, including the art historian, museum director and broadcaster, Kenneth Clark. Re-evaluation of BAM as a paradigm of scholarly engagement is critical in today's European political climate. The curators took action on the basis of their research in a time of crisis, widespread nationalism and populism. That BAM's curators were refugee scholars in Britain is all the more relevant today, opening an exploration of the migration of knowledge which will be investigated in two ways: as an object of historical study and as a barometer of how politics have impacted on the movement of scholars, particularly in the 20th century. What examination of this rich archive offers the network is the opportunity for concrete analysis of an historical example of scholars engaging with the crisis of their time, which opens up space to discuss and challenge narratives of national histories and questions of academic action and responsibility. Using the untapped BAM archive (photographs, glass slides, floor guides, correspondence) the network has four key objectives: 1. To address themes of academic responsibility and action, migration of knowledge and intellectual history, technologies of reproduction and dissemination, image-led practices and academic impact, and archives of conflict. 2. To reactivate and document a historical source using digital interfaces: website, social media, video-streams 3. To enable critical engagement with the future of academic action and responsibility in a conference, focusing on interactions between scholars and a general public, and so facilitate a two-way knowledge exchange that engages with the archive material.4. To present three public-facing events in London (WI), Munich (ZI) and Rome (BSR) in the form of partial displays (exhibitions), workshop, study day and a conference.The network will capitalise on the combined expertise and experience of PI, Co-I and Project Partner networks, which target different disciplines, interests and audiences. To address its objectives, it will network significant academics and professionals from the Arts and Humanities as well as a wider public through its public-facing activities and meetings. The mutual work enabled by the network and its activities during its lifetime will feed into a long-term objective: scoping funding towards a touring exhibition in the UK and Europe, and wider media engagement, involving further research applications.

该网络研究了危机时期的学术责任和行动的关键问题，将其询问尤其集中在学术上，以图像主导的实践来评论和塑造政治现实。这项询问的核心是与英国艺术和地中海（BAM）的少量材料档案馆的独特参与，这是一场由弗里茨·萨克斯（Fritz Saxl）和鲁道夫·维特科尔（Rudolf Wittkower）于1941年在英格兰策划的摄影展览，并声称英国与欧洲的文化联系。该网络汇集了艺术家，历史学家，媒体理论家，策展人，新闻工作者，摄影师和活动家，以重新激活这一独特的档案资源，并在数字人文科学的方法下使其访问。它表达了在关键的冲突时期，英国和欧洲之间文化连续性的思想。该展览由500张照片组成，代表了从德国通过Warburg Institute进口的新艺术历史方法，即对图像驱动的有关文化传播的询问。该展览在伦敦和英国其他20个城市举行，以教育性的想法尽可能广泛。因此，由于英国机构（CEMA）和关键公众人物的支持，包括艺术史学家，博物馆董事和广播员肯尼斯·克拉克（Kenneth Clark）的支持，外国学术专业知识转变为非常成功的企业，其标准没有妥协。重新评估BAM作为学术参与的范式在当今欧洲政治气氛中至关重要。策展人在危机，广泛的民族主义和民粹主义时期根据他们的研究采取了行动。当今，BAM的策展人是英国的难民学者，今天更加相关，对知识的迁移进行了探索，这将通过两种方式进行调查：作为历史研究的对象，以及政治如何影响学者的运动，尤其是20世纪的晴雨表。对这个丰富的档案的检查提供了网络的机会，这是对学者参与其时代危机的历史例子进行具体分析的机会，该例子为讨论和挑战国家历史的叙述以及学术行动和责任问题的叙述提供了空间。使用未开发的BAM档案（照片，载玻片，地板指南，通信），该网络具有四个关键目标：1。解决学术责任和行动的主题，知识和知识历史的迁移，复制和传播技术，图像指导的实践和学术影响以及冲突的档案。 2。使用数字接口重新激活和记录历史资源：网站，社交媒体，视频流3。在会议中，批判地与学术行动和责任的未来进行批判性接触，重点关注学者与公众之间的互动，从而促进与档案材料互动的双向知识交流。4。在伦敦（WI），慕尼黑（ZI）和罗马（BSR）举行三场面向公共活动的活动中，以部分展示（展览），研讨会，学习日和会议的形式进行。该网络将利用PI，CO-I和项目合作伙伴的共同专业知识和经验，这些网络针对不同的想法，利益，利益和观众。为了解决其目标，它将通过面向公共的活动和会议来建立艺术和人文科学的重要学者和专业人士，以及更广泛的公众。网络及其一生中的活动实现的共同工作将以一个长期的目标为基础：将资金范围用于英国和欧洲的巡回展览，以及更广泛的媒体参与，涉及进一步的研究应用程序。