Eco-activist Film and Visual Art From Latin America

来自拉丁美洲的生态活动电影和视觉艺术

• 批准号: AH/X00922X/1
• 负责人: Deborah Martin
• 金额: $ 22.36万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX00922X%2F1
• 关键词: Eco; activist; Film; Visual; Art

This project examines the interconnections between film and visual art, and environmental justice activism in Latin America, a region which combines the greatest biodiversity on Earth with some of the gravest eco-political and -territorial conflicts. Environmental justice movements have been gaining prominence and developing in recent years, and practitioners in visual forms such as film, video, installation and performance are responding to the intensification of socio-environmental threat and campaigns against it, working with or as activists in Latin American countries including Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, producing visual forms which are both explicitly activist and aesthetically experimental. The project will identify and analyse recent and emerging processes of co-creation and collaboration between artists and environmental activists, as well as artworks and films produced, and pay attention to how resulting artworks are deployed within activist campaigns.The project seeks to understand how visual forms are being used in pursuit of environmental justice goals, and to explore emergent narratives and images of environmental justice activism, and the ways in which visual forms document, conceptualise, make visible and aesthetically mediate urgent issues and struggles. In order to respond to environmental crisis, Indigenous biocentric and relational forms of knowledge are increasingly seen as crucial, even whilst global conversations about ecological and climate breakdown remain dominated by Western academic and scientific discourses. The voices of those most affected -- the 'peripheral' peoples of Latin America -- are marginalised. The works studied, and the project itself, respond to a need for a diversification of perspectives, and the project will pay attention to the ways in which artists and artworks render the views of affected communities visible and audible to the wider world. It will seek to delineate the ecological and political narratives, discourses and epistemologies that emerge in the works studied, and the concepts they bring to planetary-scale discussions about environmental justice and ecological crisis. Of interest for the project is the idea that alternative relationships to the nonhuman -- which in some cases stem from or relate to Indigenous thought -- are essential to any response to environmental crisis, and that activist artworks are engaged both in agitating for change, but also, often through aesthetic experimentation, in representing these shifting relationships both within the artwork as well as through the relationship to the artwork they elicit in the viewer. Outputs will therefore characterise this work in terms of the environmental and political discourses, narratives and epistemologies it features, as well as the ways in which its aesthetic organisation aligns with its activist intent, reconfiguring human/nature binaries and overcoming narrative and aesthetic challenges commonly understood as besetting the representation of ecological crisis.The Fellowship's early phase will be devoted to fieldwork in Latin America, to carry out primary and empirical research on activist-artist collectives, projects and artworks, as well as to undertaking videographic training at a US summer school, to allow me to communicate my research in a different format, the video-essay. During the later phase, my time will mainly be devoted to writing and presenting work at international conferences, in order to communicate findings to scholars at the intersection of film, art, Latin American and environmental humanities/ecocriticism, as well as to organising public engagement events including a film season, to ensure I communicate findings to public audiences including Latin Americans in the UK, activists, artists, environmentalists and others interested in these issues. The Fellowship will lay the groundwork for a book-length study to be completed after its end.

这个项目考察了电影和视觉艺术之间的相互联系，以及拉丁美洲的环境正义行动主义，这个地区将地球上最大的生物多样性与一些最严重的生态政治和领土冲突结合在一起。近年来，环境正义运动日益突出和发展，电影、录像、装置和表演等视觉形式的实践者正在应对日益加剧的社会环境威胁和反对这种威胁的运动，他们与阿根廷、哥伦比亚、厄瓜多尔、墨西哥和秘鲁等拉丁美洲国家的积极分子合作或作为活动家，创作出既具有明显的激进主义色彩，又具有审美试验性的视觉形式。该项目将确定和分析艺术家和环境活动家之间最近和正在出现的共同创作和合作过程，以及制作的艺术品和电影，并关注由此产生的艺术作品如何在活动中部署。该项目试图了解视觉形式如何被用于追求环境正义的目标，并探索环境正义活动的新叙事和图像，以及视觉形式如何记录、概念化、使可见和美学调解紧迫的问题和斗争的方式。为了应对环境危机，土著生物中心和关系形式的知识越来越被视为至关重要，尽管关于生态和气候崩溃的全球对话仍然由西方学术和科学话语主导。受影响最严重的群体--拉丁美洲的“边缘”民族--的声音被边缘化了。所研究的作品和项目本身满足了多样化视角的需要，该项目将关注艺术家和艺术品如何向更广泛的世界展示受影响社区的观点和声音。它将寻求描绘在所研究的作品中出现的生态和政治叙事、话语和认识论，以及它们为全球范围内关于环境正义和生态危机的讨论带来的概念。该项目感兴趣的是这样一种想法，即与非人类的替代关系--在某些情况下源于或与土著思想有关--对于任何对环境危机的反应都是必不可少的，激进的艺术作品既参与鼓动改变，也经常通过审美实验，既在艺术作品中表现这些变化的关系，也通过它们在观赏者中引发的艺术作品的关系来表现。因此，产出将从环境和政治话语、叙事和认识论的角度来描述这部作品，以及它的美学组织如何与其活动家意图保持一致，重新配置人/自然二元组，克服通常被理解为困扰生态危机表现的叙事和美学挑战。该奖学金的早期阶段将致力于拉丁美洲的田野调查，对激进艺术家集体、项目和艺术品进行初步和实证研究，以及在美国暑期学校进行视频培训，以便我能够以不同的形式--视频-文章来交流我的研究。在后期阶段，我将主要致力于撰写和在国际会议上发表作品，以便向电影、艺术、拉丁美洲和环境人文/生态批评交叉学科的学者传达研究成果，并组织包括电影季在内的公众参与活动，以确保我向公众观众(包括在英国的拉美人、活动家、艺术家、环保主义者和其他对这些问题感兴趣的人)传达研究成果。该奖学金将为结束后完成的一项全书长度的研究奠定基础。