Staging Justice: Documenting Histories and Investigating Interdisciplinarity in the work of Rideout

Rideout（康复创意艺术）成立于1999年，是英国刑事司法系统中提供艺术干预的领先组织。独特的跨学科方法，不断发展的实践模式，并与司法系统的公众理解的持续参与，Rideout的做法的批判性考试是有限的性能研究和犯罪学。它们在英国监狱艺术景观中的重要性为一系列创造性的公众参与活动和创新的研究方法提供了空间。该奖学金将在公司成立25周年前后的24个月内进行，并批判性地参与Rideout的工作，特别关注他们的跨学科创作实践，引发围绕正义的公共对话，以及艺术和刑事司法从业者更广泛网络中的历史意义。除了与该公司的具体合作之外，这项研究将重新调整研究和实践议程，专注于跨学科的政治和美学价值，这是Rideout工作的一个独特方面，认为这是一种富有成效和未充分利用的策略，以批判性和艺术性的方式探索监狱场所和监禁体验的复杂性。在专注于跨学科，这个以戏剧为基础的项目将促进与音乐，舞蹈和神经科学的学者和从业者的合作，以探索这些不同的工作模式和批判性观点（当与表演一起举行时）可能会在监狱戏剧领域内外开辟对监禁的新理解。最后，该研究将调查的复杂性，并提出具体的方法，存档监狱戏剧组织的工作时，有一个建立在艺术和刑事司法公司在英国的历史越来越感兴趣。这个项目将问1）如何工作的Rideout创意艺术康复有助于和塑造监狱艺术的做法，公众对正义的理解，和政策改革在过去的25年里在英国？2)在监狱里的人参与的艺术项目中，利用跨学科的方法可以产生什么关于监狱场所的新知识和对监禁的理解？3)档案实践可以提供什么样的策略来捕捉监狱戏剧实践的短暂性，以及如何支持当代艺术和刑事司法从业人员参与这一领域的新兴历史？该项目将采用若干方法，并开展各种协作活动。采访莱德奥特团队，董事会成员，艺术家和参与者谁曾与该公司，以及其他从业人员在艺术和刑事司法工作将创建莱德奥特口述历史。与布里斯托剧院收藏合作将创建一个公开访问的档案，该公司的工作，将借鉴这项研究。三个跨学科的创意驻地将与合作伙伴监狱的Rideout合作协调，以探索跨学科方法如何在其工作中运作。这些居住地将记录民族志，以批判性地质疑这种模式的创造性实践。最后，将采取实践即研究的方法，与Rideout合作举办一系列研究型戏剧研讨会，让有监狱经验的人探索和戏剧化米歇尔·福柯关于正义和监禁的基础文本，Rideout的广泛的工作机构和相对较长的历史提供了重要的机会巴特利，以提高她在具体的研究能力实践（口述历史和档案，作为研究的实践，民族志），在艺术和刑事司法环境中获得牵引力。

Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) established in 1999, is a leading organisation delivering arts interventions in the criminal justice system in the UK. Unique in their interdisciplinary approaches, continually evolving models of practice, and sustained engagement with public understandings of the justice system, critical examinations of Rideout's practice are limited in performance studies and criminology. Their significance within the UK prison arts landscape offers scope for a series of creative public engagement activities and innovative research methodologies. This fellowship will take place over 24 months around the company's 25th year and critically engage with Rideout's body of work, paying specific attention to their interdisciplinary creative practice, provocation of public conversations around justice, and historical significance within the wider network of arts and criminal justice practitioners. Beyond a specific engagement with the company, this research will reorient research and practice agendas to focus on the political and aesthetic value of interdisciplinarity, a distinctive aspect of Rideout's work, arguing that this is a productive and under-utilised strategy to both critically and artistically explore the complexities of prison sites and experiences of incarceration. In focusing on interdisciplinarity, this theatre based project will foster collaborations with scholars and practitioners in music, dance, and neuroscience to explore how these different modes of work and critical perspectives (when held alongside performance) might open up new understandings of incarceration both within and beyond the field of prison theatre. Finally, the research will investigate the complexities of, and propose specific approaches to, archiving the work of prison theatre organisations at a time when there is a growing interest in the histories of established arts and criminal justice companies in the UK.This project will ask 1) How has the work of Rideout Creative Arts for Rehabilitation contributed to and shaped prison arts practices, public understandings of justice, and policy reform in the UK over the past 25 years?; 2) What new knowledges of carceral sites and understandings of incarceration can be produced from utilising an interdisciplinary approach in arts projects that engage people in prison?; 3) What strategies can archival practice offer to capture the acutely ephemeral nature of prison theatre practices and how might contemporary arts and criminal justice practitioners be supported to engage with the emergent histories of this field?The project will deploy several methodological approaches and deliver various collaborative activities. Interviews with the Rideout team, board members, artists and participants who have worked with the company, and other practitioners working in arts and criminal justice will create an oral history of Rideout. Collaboration with Bristol Theatre Collection will create a publicly accessible archive of the company's work which will be drawn on for this research. Three interdisciplinary Creative Residencies will be coordinated in collaboration with Rideout at partner prisons to explore how interdisciplinary approaches operate in their work. These residencies will be documented ethnographically in order to critically interrogate this model of creative practice. Finally, a practice-as-research approach will be taken to conduct a series of research-informed theatre workshops, delivered in collaboration with Rideout, for people with experience of prison to explore and dramatise Michel Foucault's foundational text on justice and imprisonment, Discipline and Punish.Rideout's extensive body of work and relatively long history provide significant opportunities for Bartley to enhance her capabilities in specific research practices (oral history and archival, Practice-as-Research, ethnography) that are gaining traction within arts and criminal justice settings.