Things of the least: lively exhibition-making through the material encounters of under-3s

最不重要的事情：通过 3 岁以下儿童的物质接触进行生动的展览

• 批准号: AH/Y005597/1
• 负责人: Rachel Holmes
• 金额: $ 30.16万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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%2FY005597%2F1
• 关键词: Things; least; lively; exhibition; making

Based in Manchester, this project will develop new and experimental exhibitionary practices through the spatial, material and embodied knowledges of children who are under 3. Overturning conventional assumptions about very young children by framing them as active contributors to the public space of the museum, the project emerges from a longstandingpartnership between Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Art Gallery (MAG) and a Sure Start centre. It is underpinned by two key strands of our research: young children's more-than-verbal capacities to animate collections and gallery architecture; and artistic processes that call on different kinds of attunement to embodied sensations and affectiveencounters, both deeply related by their commitment to interdisciplinarity and co-produced inquiry.Recognising the potential of young children's expressions of vitality in their encounters with collections, this work redresses the paucity of knowledge, understanding and practice around co-produced engagement with, and exhibitions for under 3s. It contributes to moves in UK museums and galleries towards more inventive and experimental exhibition cultures bydeveloping curatorial practices and participatory exhibition-making with young families across a three-year period. Working with three teams of artists, the project will examine how young children's ways of knowing can contribute and have a positive impact on museum collections.Combining museum studies, early years education and art as vital components in the creation of new forms of decolonising museological praxis, the project will open up a stored collection of over 4,000 objects of domestic life and childhood from the early 1800s-1900s for creative use by audiences who do not usually connect with the GLAM sector - objects that might seem insignificant and humble, yet anchor us deeply in a sense of belonging (The Mary Greg Collection). At the same time, it will facilitate deeper engagement with families and early years communities already engaged with MAG. Artists will translate key sensory and narrative qualities of selected objects from the collection into 10-15 prototypes (Mary Greg Play Kit) - sound or movement-based pieces, physical objects or digital artefacts specifically designed to engage children under 3 and their families. Prototypes will function as artefacts, play things and research objects giving insight into under 3s' play. With families as co-researchers, we will create a vocabulary of gestures, sounds and movements as the children engage with the prototypes to incorporate their forms of encounters into reworked objects and installation ideas. In the process of interrupting normative practices by democratising knowledge production, the project interweaves a range of public engagement activities with exhibition-making processes. These entangled events will occur across a number of sites, including a supported housing complex for young mothers; a temporary shelter for asylum seeking & refugee families; a nursery school & Sure Start children's centre; and Platt Hall (a closed former costume museum with an uncertain future, in the process of becoming a dynamic cultural space for local communities).The project will produce a range of shorter- and longer-term outcomes and impacts for Platt Hall and the Mary Greg collection as relevant and revitalised cultural assets.

该项目将以曼彻斯特为基地，通过3岁以下儿童的空间、物质和具体知识，开发新的实验性展览实践。该项目颠覆了对幼儿的传统假设，将他们视为博物馆公共空间的积极贡献者，该项目源于曼彻斯特城市大学，曼彻斯特美术馆（MAG）和Sure Start中心之间的长期合作伙伴关系。它是由我们的研究的两个关键部分支撑：幼儿的能力比语言更生动的收藏和画廊建筑;和艺术过程，呼吁不同类型的调谐到具体的感觉和情感的遭遇，两者都深深相关的承诺，跨学科和共同产生的调查。认识到幼儿的活力表达的潜力，在他们遇到的收藏，这项工作弥补了在与3岁以下儿童共同制作的参与和展览方面缺乏知识、理解和实践的问题。它通过在三年的时间里与年轻家庭一起发展策展实践和参与性展览制作，为英国博物馆和画廊走向更具创造性和实验性的展览文化做出了贡献。该项目将与三个艺术家团队合作，探讨幼儿的认知方式如何对博物馆藏品产生积极影响。该项目将博物馆研究、早期教育和艺术作为创造非殖民化博物馆实践新形式的重要组成部分，从19世纪初到20世纪初，为那些通常不与GLAM部门联系的观众创造性地使用了000件家庭生活和童年的物品-这些物品可能看起来微不足道和卑微，但锚我们深深的归属感（玛丽格雷格收藏）。艺术家们将把精选物品的关键感官和叙事品质转化为10 - 15个原型（玛丽格雷格游戏工具包）--专门为3岁以下儿童及其家庭设计的声音或运动作品、实物或数字艺术品。原型将作为人工制品，游戏的东西和研究对象，使深入了解3岁以下的游戏。与家庭作为共同研究人员，我们将创建一个手势，声音和动作的词汇，因为孩子们与原型进行互动，将他们的接触形式融入到重新设计的对象和安装理念中。在通过使知识生产民主化来中断规范性做法的过程中，该项目将一系列公众参与活动与展览制作过程交织在一起。这些错综复杂的事件将发生在许多地点，包括一个为年轻母亲提供支持的住房综合体;一个为寻求庇护者和难民家庭提供的临时住所;一所幼儿园和"扎实起步"儿童中心;关于Platt Hall（一座关闭的前服装博物馆，未来不确定，在成为当地社区充满活力的文化空间的过程中）。该项目将产生一系列较短-和较长-普拉特大厅和玛丽格雷格收集相关和振兴文化资产的长期成果和影响。