Ancient History, Contemporary Belonging: a creative exploration of forced migration of ancient historical objects with refugee-background young people

该项目开发了一种创新的新方法--基于参与式艺术的文物传记--以解决(误解)人们和古代文物被迫迁移到英国的问题。来自难民背景的年轻人将对其原籍地区的文物进行档案研究，并根据他们自己被迫迁移的经历制作PAB文物传记，他们将利用情感、体现和感官的知识生产模式来产生和分享关于英国博物馆收藏品的新视角。作为殖民占领的直接结果，来自非洲和亚洲的古代历史文物挤满了英国博物馆，但他们如何进入收藏品的细节往往被记录得很少。这些物品通常被呈现为过去文明的静态代表，几乎完全由西方白人学者解释。这种情况掩盖了他们传记的复杂性，这些传记讲述了关于跨国移民和帝国历史的重要故事。相反，在英国，难民背景的年轻人是由他们的流动所定义的，他们的难民背景阻碍了他们在政治、社会、经济和文化上的融入。导致他们被迫移民的情况超出了英国，否认了帝国和当代新殖民主义的遗产。无论是这些年轻人，还是古代的历史文物，都需要新的叙事。该项目将在(新)殖民纠葛的跨国历史中将它们置于对话中，以产生对每个对象被迫迁移的独特见解。对象传记认识到，对象传记认识到，对象在其历史上根据其生产、使用、交换和移动的性质以及与其互动的民族和事件，在意义和价值上发生变化。PAB物品传记的制作将使css能够：检查物品的原始用途；导致从原始设置中移除的旅程；以及它们在英国的运输和展示。PAB物件传记特权体现、感官和情感的理解和表达形式，促进了CS的思想和经验与其档案研究的结合，以放大在很大程度上被排除在影响这些物件的公认叙事的声音。其结果将是挑战传统的基于文本的账户，并鼓励新的观看和感受方式。该项目包括五个工作包：准备；PAB过程；物体的成像和3D打印；展览；宣传和传播。一个由项目合作伙伴和合作伙伴组成的指导委员会将指导这一进程。曼彻斯特博物馆的藏品包括来自与许多英国当代被迫移民国家(非洲、东地中海和西亚)重叠的地区的文物。Css将选择感兴趣的物品，并与博物馆档案馆、策展人、专家和我们合作研究他们的历史。这些物体的成像和3D打印将产生复制品，这些复制品可以用原始物体无法操纵和探索的方式进行操作和探索。在与来自Sheba Art的具有创造性地参与被迫移民的BAME/难民背景艺术家共同设计和促进的过程中，CS将使用他们选择的艺术形式来探索他们自己的想法和经验如何与对文物的档案研究相结合。由此产生的PAB对象传记将传达被迫移民和跨国历史的复杂性。这些艺术品将构成博物馆和在线展览的基础，以及原始物品。与其他学术和公共成果一起，展览将使不同的观众对跨国背景下的人和物体的被迫迁移进行批判性思考和深情理解，促进古代历史和遗产的非殖民化，并鼓励未来PAB公民科学历史和遗产倡议。

This project develops an innovative new approach-participatory arts-based object biography-to address (mis)understandings of the forced migration of people and ancient objects to the UK. Combining archival research on objects from their regions of origin, and the production of PAB object biographies that draw on their own experiences of forced migration, youth CSs from refugee backgrounds will utilise affective, embodied and sensuous modes of knowledge production to generate and share new perspectives on UK museum collections.As a direct consequence of colonial occupation, ancient historical objects from Africa and Asia fill UK museums, but the specifics of how they entered collections is often poorly recorded. These objects are typically presented as static representations of past civilisations, interpreted almost exclusively by white, western scholars. This situation obscures the complex nature of their biographies, which tell important stories about transnational histories of migration and empire. Conversely, refugee-background young people in the UK are defined by their movement, their refugee backgrounds impeding their political, social, economic and cultural inclusion. The circumstances leading to their forced migration are positioned beyond the UK, denying the legacies of empire and contemporary neo-colonialism. Both these young people and ancient historical objects are in need of new narratives. This project will place them in dialogue, within transnational histories of (neo)colonial entanglement, to produce unique insights into the forced migration of each.Object biography recognises that objects change in meaning and value throughout their history, based on their production, use, the nature of their exchange and movement, and the peoples and events with which they interact. The production of PAB object biographies will enable CSs to: examine the objects' original uses; the journeys that led to removal from their original settings; and their transportation and display in the UK. PAB object biographies privilege embodied, sensuous, and affective forms of understanding and expression, facilitating the integration of CSs' ideas and experiences with their archival research to amplify voices largely precluded from influencing the accepted narratives of these objects. The result will be to challenge conventional text-based accounts and encourage new ways of seeing and feeling.The project comprises five work packages: preparation; the PAB process; imaging and 3D printing of objects; exhibition; promotion and dissemination. A steering committee including project partners and CSs will guide the process. Manchester Museum's collection includes artefacts from regions that overlap with the countries of many of the UK's contemporary forced migrants (Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia). CSs will select objects of interest and work with the museum archives, curators, specialists, and us to research their history. Imaging and 3D printing of the objects will create replicas that can be manipulated and explored in ways that the originals cannot. In a process co-designed and facilitated with BAME/refugee-background artists from Sheba Arts with experience in creatively engaging with forced migration, the CSs will use their chosen art form to explore how their own ideas and experiences intersect with the archival research on the artefacts. The resulting PAB object biographies will communicate the complexities of forced migration and transnational history. These artworks will form the basis of an exhibition at the Museum and online, with the original objects. Along with other academic and public outputs, the exhibition will engage diverse audiences in critical reflection and affective understanding of the forced migration of people and objects in transnational context, contributing to the decolonisation of ancient history and heritage and encouraging future PAB citizen science history and heritage initiatives.