Networking international and transnational approaches to contemporary art in heritage practice.

该项目的主要目的是发起一个新的国际遗产当代艺术网络，该网络将把英国和海外的学者、策展人、艺术家、遗产和历史景观组织以及博物馆遗址聚集在一起，交流和探索遗产实践中当代艺术的国际和跨国方法。我们的网络将扩展遗产实践中对当代艺术的跨学科研究，启动该领域的第一次国际地图绘制和全球概览。该项目将与四个(英国和国际)遗产部门合作伙伴合作实施：艺术与遗产、国家信托基金、国际良知遗址联盟和艺术家工作室博物馆网络。在吸取新冠肺炎大流行期间文化部门转向数字化的经验基础上，并最大限度地增加国际参与的机会，我们所有计划中的项目活动都将在网上进行。自20世纪90年代以来，当代艺术家受委托针对英国各地的广泛遗产地点-从宏伟的宫殿和乡村别墅到历史设计景观、工业水道和大教堂-创作临时的、特定地点的回应。虽然英国可以说是这种做法的主要支持者，但通过AHRC资助的“在遗产体验中绘制当代艺术地图”(MCAHE)项目(2017-2020年)进行的试点国际地图研究表明，遗产中的当代艺术不仅仅是英国的现象。这项工作反映了更广泛的博物馆和遗产部门扩大的全球议程，大部分工作都涉及到对困难遗产的阐述，包括重点关注殖民和后殖民叙事的艺术参与。尽管这涉及到全球关注的问题，并提出了使遗产呈现多样化的有力论据，但英国现有的关于遗产中的当代艺术的学术文献主要集中在国家场景上，很少探索更广泛的跨国背景。这一网络活动的主要成果包括：-与英国和国际合作伙伴共同主办的一系列5次在线会议，涉及学者、研究人员、策展人、艺术家和遗产专业人士的跨学科社区。-新创建的、可公开访问的遗产实践国际当代艺术在线谷歌地图，捕捉并链接到该领域当前和最近的活动。-由英国和国际网络合作伙伴(遗产遗址、博物馆和历史景观)主办的4个试点虚拟跨国委员会/艺术家居住地。-3个新的播客，内容包括英国和国际策展人、遗产遗址和受委托的艺术家对话，与艺术与遗产联合制作，并通过其现有的Apple播客和SoundCloud频道免费提供。-闭幕在线国际研讨会向所有在该领域工作或感兴趣的学者、艺术家、策展人和其他专业人士开放。该项目将使广泛和国际上的学者、实践型研究人员、策展人、艺术家、博物馆和遗产专业人员受益。这将通过多种相辅相成的传播途径实现，包括在艺术与遗产网站上公开介绍虚拟委员会/常驻代表，以及在今后的学术和部门会议(英国和国际)上作介绍。

The principal aim of this project is to initiate a new International Contemporary Art in Heritage Network that will bring together UK and overseas academics, curators, artists, heritage and historic landscape organisations, and museum sites to exchange and explore international and transnational approaches to contemporary art in heritage practice. Our Network will extend the interdisciplinary study of contemporary art in heritage practice, initiating the first international mapping and global overview of this field. The project will be delivered in partnership with four (UK and international) heritage sector partners: Arts&Heritage; National Trust; International Coalition of Sites of Conscience; and the Artists' Studio Museum Network. Building on learning from the cultural sector's pivot to digital during the Covid-19 Pandemic, and to maximise opportunities for international input, all our planned programme activity will take place online.Since the 1990s contemporary artists have been commissioned to create temporary, site-specific responses to a wide range of heritage places across the UK - from grand palaces and country houses to historic designed landscapes, industrial waterways, and cathedrals. While the UK may arguably be regarded as a leading proponent of such practice, pilot international mapping research undertaken through our AHRC-funded 'Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience' (MCAHE) project (2017-2020), indicated that contemporary art in heritage is more than just a UK phenomenon. Reflecting expanded global agendas within the wider museum and heritage sector, much of this work is concerned with articulations of difficult heritage, including a key focus on artistic engagement with colonial and postcolonial narratives. Despite this engagement with global concerns, and strong arguments made for diversifying the presentation of heritage, existing academic literature on contemporary art in heritage in the UK has primarily focused on the national scene, with little exploration of a broader transnational context. It is this gap in international knowledge that our Network specifically seeks to address.Key Outputs of this networking activity include:- A series of 5 online Meet Ups co-hosted with UK and international partners and involving an interdisciplinary community of academics, researchers, curators, artists, and heritage professionals.- A newly created, publicly accessible online Google Map of international contemporary art in heritage practice that captures and links to current and recent activity in this field.- 4 pilot virtual transnational commissions/artists residencies hosted by UK and international network partners (heritage sites, museums, and historic landscapes). - 3 new Podcasts featuring UK and international curators, heritage sites and commissioned artists in conversation, co-produced with Arts&Heritage and made freely available via its existing Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud channels.- A closing online international symposium open to all interested academics, artists, curators, and other professionals working in, or with an interest in, this field.This project will benefit a broad and international constituency of academics, practice-based researchers, curators, artists, museum, and heritage professionals. This will be achieved through multiple and complementary dissemination routes, including public presentation of the virtual commissions/residencies on the Arts&Heritage website and through presentations at future academic and sector-based conferences (UK and international).