Voices in the Gallery: Reading Unseen Texts

自20世纪中叶以来，写作一直是推动当代艺术向前发展的关键。然而，当我们曾经走进画廊，找到墙上或玻璃柜上展示的文字时，现在我们正以一种本质上不同的方式在艺术界遇到语言。随着艺术家们越来越多地被吸引以画外音的形式呈现文本，艺术的文学内容正以声音的形式进入画廊。画外音的概念我们从纪录片中熟悉，但视频、装置和新媒体艺术家正在将这种格式推向新的和意想不到的方向。《画廊里的声音》旨在对画外音作为一种同时存在于艺术形式、文学体裁和声音干预中的现象进行首次研究。通过汇集艺术、文学和声音研究的想法和观点，它将提供一个原创的、跨学科的画外音理论。这个项目将使用画外音作为一种媒介，通过它来探索写作在当今艺术实践中是如何运作的：为什么人类的声音在当代艺术中如此普遍？观众如何参与有声写作？发声如何影响我们在画廊里对语言驱动的艺术作品的体验？我们怎么能批判性地评估画外音的文学和美学特征呢？画廊如何让听者具备“听觉阅读”的能力？如何理解未被看到的有声文本？在回答这些问题时，这个项目将产生一系列的学术和非学术成果和活动。我的研究报告和文章将建立一个跨学科研究的新领域。我的议程设置专著将塑造艺术家、机构和评论家未来如何制作、策划和分析画外音。与创意产业的合作是这个项目不可或缺的一部分。这项研究将与诺丁汉当代美术馆和约翰·汉萨德画廊的参与、展览和公共编程专业人士合作进行。这些组织将策划最具创新性的当代艺术的国际声誉与致力于吸引不同当地观众的深刻承诺结合在一起。通过在画廊中嵌入正在进行的研究，并在艺术专业人员和高等教育之间产生对话和交流，该项目将调动研究的见解，打开语言驱动的艺术实践的入口点。近距离聆听工作坊和学习课程将邀请参与者探索体验和诠释艺术有声写作的新方法。画廊免费派发侧面宣传单，将引导和丰富观众的画外音体验。在南安普顿市中心的一个场外展览将邀请新的公众在他们的市政空间体验一个特别策划的画外音装置。跨学科，与文化机构及其社区合作，这个创新的领导项目将改变我们遇到、调解和阐述当代艺术创作的一种重要的、新兴的模式。

Writing has been essential in driving contemporary art forward since the middle of the 20th century. However, where oncewe entered galleries to find words displayed on walls or in vitrines, now we are encountering language in the artworld in aqualitatively different way. Art's literary content is entering the gallery as sound, through the medium of the recorded voice, as artists are drawn increasingly to present texts in the form of voiceover.The concept of voiceover is familiar to us from documentary film, but video, installation and new media artists are pushing the format in new and unexpected directions. Voices in the Gallery aims to carry out the first investigation of the voiceover as a phenomenon that exists simultaneously as art-form, literary genre and sonic intervention. By bringing together ideas and perspectives from art, literature and sound studies, it will deliver an original, interdisciplinary theory of voiceover. This project will use the voiceover as a medium by which to explore how writing operates in art practices today:Why is the human voice so pervasive in contemporary art? How do audiences engage with voiced writing? How does vocalization affect our experience of language-driven artworks in the gallery? How can we critically assess the literary and aesthetic features of a voiceover track? How can galleries equip listeners to 'read aurally': to interpret vocalized text that remains unseen?In answering these questions, this project will produce a range of academic and non-academic outputs and activities. My research presentations and article will establish a new field of crossdisciplinary inquiry. My agenda-setting monograph will shape how artists, institutions and critics make, curate and analyze voiceover in future.Partnership with creative industries is integral to this project. The research will be carried out in collaboration with engagement, exhibitions and public programming professionals at Nottingham Contemporary and John Hansard Gallery. These organizations combine international reputations for curating the most innovative contemporary art with a profound commitment to engaging diverse local audiences. By embedding ongoing research in the galleries, and engendering dialogue and exchange between arts professionals and HE, the project will mobilize insights from the research to open entry points into language-driven arts practices. Close listening workshops and study sessions will invite participants to explore new ways of experiencing and interpreting voiced writing in art. Broadside leaflets freely distributed in galleries, will guide and enrich audiences' experiences of voiceover. An off-site exhibition in Southampton city centre will invite new publics to experience a specially curated voiceover installation in their civic space. Crossing between disciplines, working with cultural institutions and their communities, this innovative leadership project will transform how we encounter, mediate and explicate an important, emergent mode of contemporary art-making.