The Festival as Form

节日的形式

• 批准号: AH/V009931/1
• 负责人: Peter Howarth
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV009931%2F1
• 关键词: Festival; Form

Festivals are a vital part of the UK's creative economy. Over a third of UK adults have visited one (source: Ticketmaster), and alongside the 350 designated literary festivals, many of the large general ones now include literary zones for poetry, theatre and discussion. Festivals are also changing how people access new work: market analysts Neilsen Bookscan argue that the 66% rise in poetry sales between 2012-2017 has been substantially driven by the appetite for contemporary poetry encountered at festivals and live events (Bookseller, 13.4.18). Yet despite the large amount of anthropological background on festivals, there has been little research into the way contemporary festivals shape the performances within them (Comunian, 2016), and almost nothing on the relationship between festivals and modern literature. Debates on music festivals often turn on the degree to which festivals' countercultural credentials have been appropriated by the market; the literary festival, too, suffers 'a crisis of identity', claims Johansen (2012), torn between being the vehicle for star authors, and a means for readers to feel more like genuine participants in a discussion. But research which tracks questions of status alone has reduced the immersive richness, contingency and complexity of the participants' experience within the overall festival flow, notes Jamaingal-Jones (2014); it cannot register the hyper-abundant, border-dropping experience of festivals (Turner 1974), and it by-passes the role the arts themselves play in articulating questions of status and inclusion.This proposal is to examine the contemporary literary-artistic festival as a form. Like a stage or a page layout, the festival is a mixture of a cultural genre, an economic project and a physical space, which frames the arts within it and its audience in distinctive ways. By observing the way selected artists adapt a work for the festival, we aim to understand more of the creative pressures and feedback loops into the work which the festival generates for artists. We will get audiences to do some 'narrated photography' of their experience, asking how they adapt during the festival as consumers, friends, citizens, fans, identity-seekers and co-creators of the festival for their own social media outlets. Interviewing curators and a wide range of stakeholders, we will build up a picture of how the festival as a genre shapes literary creativity, and we will set this within a longer history of its role in modern literature. Our research questions are:How does the contemporary festival as a genre shape the literary performances within it?How do festival-goers understand literary events in the light of their all-round experience of the festival?How have festivals supported the creation of and engagement with works of literature since the early twentieth century?We will produce a report outlining what festivalization is doing to literature for academic critics, arts professionals and creative directors. And naturally enough, we will invite audiences to make their own response to the research through events at those festivals in subsequent years.

创意产业是英国创意经济的重要组成部分。超过三分之一的英国成年人参观过一个（来源：Ticketmaster），除了350个指定的文学节，许多大型的一般性节日现在都包括诗歌，戏剧和讨论的文学区。节日也在改变人们获取新作品的方式：市场分析师Neilsen Bookscan认为，2012年至2017年间诗歌销量增长66%，这在很大程度上是由节日和现场活动中对当代诗歌的需求推动的（Bookseller，13.4.18）。然而，尽管有大量关于节日的人类学背景，但很少有研究当代节日如何塑造其中的表演（Comunian，2016），几乎没有关于节日与现代文学之间的关系。关于音乐节的争论往往取决于音乐节的反文化资格在多大程度上被市场盗用; Johansen（2012）声称，文学节也遭受了“身份危机”，在作为星星作家的载体和让读者感觉更像讨论中真正参与者的手段之间左右为难。但是，Jamaingal-Jones（2014）指出，仅跟踪身份问题的研究减少了参与者在整个节日流程中体验的沉浸式丰富性、偶然性和复杂性;它不能记录节日的过度丰富，边界下降的经验，（Turner 1974），它绕过了艺术本身在阐明地位和包容性问题方面所扮演的角色。这一提议是为了审视当代文学-艺术节作为一种形式。就像舞台或页面布局一样，艺术节是一种文化类型，一个经济项目和一个物理空间的混合体，它以独特的方式将艺术和观众框定在其中。通过观察选定的艺术家为艺术节改编作品的方式，我们的目标是更多地了解艺术节为艺术家创造的作品的创作压力和反馈循环。我们将让观众对他们的经历进行一些“叙述式摄影”，询问他们如何在节日期间适应消费者，朋友，公民，粉丝，身份寻求者和节日的共同创造者为自己的社交媒体渠道。采访策展人和广泛的利益相关者，我们将建立一个节日作为一种体裁如何塑造文学创造力的图片，我们将在其在现代文学中的作用更长的历史中设置这一点。我们的研究问题是：当代节日作为一种体裁如何塑造其中的文学表演？艺术节参与者如何从艺术节的全方位体验中理解文学事件？自世纪初以来，节日是如何支持文学作品的创作和参与的？我们将为学术评论家、艺术专业人士和创意总监撰写一份报告，概述节日化对文学的影响。很自然地，我们将邀请观众在随后几年的节日活动中对研究做出自己的回应。

项目成果

On Tour

巡演

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: London Review of Books
• 作者: Howarth, P B