Artful Sociologies: Exploring Avenues for Interdisciplinarity Between Sociology and the Art World

知识交流：视觉社会学家和动态图像艺术家在我的博士学位中，我发现了动态图像制作社会学方法的一个局限性：过度依赖主流纪录片格式。这种线性的、叙事的、基于语言的社会学故事可视化和实证研究的方式限制了相机作为社会学研究工具的潜力。相比之下，艺术家和相关理论家使用胶片相机创造性地探索和表现社会生活，经常超越基于屏幕的动态图像（如Nira Pereg， Angelica Mesiti）。然而，他们这样做往往没有社会学方法论的好处，严谨和反思性的问题电影人和主体之间的关系。视觉社会学家有可能向运动图像艺术家和理论家学习，并交流他们的社会学方法论见解。在与塔尔博特·赖斯画廊（以及作为顾问的SDI）的对话中，我将组织一次知识交流活动，让动态图像艺术家与社会学家进行对话。我将在这次知识交流中发表学术和面向从业者的文章，并制定出书计划。合作实践：社会学家和文化组织我的博士学位与利物浦当代艺术中心蓝衣学院的合作，使我能够以持续和嵌入的方式进行实证定性研究，与蓝衣学院的员工和公众一起发展我的理论理解，并通过展览和公共节目分享我的研究成果。在新冠疫情后的世界里，人们将重新渴望将关键的社会研究平台化，文化机构将寻找制定有影响力的公共项目的方法。社会学家很好地填补了这一空白，重要的是，与文化组织合作的社会学家的经验被规划出来。我将采访10-15位以这种方式工作过的社会学家或艺术家/艺术专业人士。我将利用这些访谈，对我自己经历的批判性反思，以及参与爱丁堡艺术学院的创意艺术和社会科学网络Atelier，来阐述这种合作的伦理和实践问题，以及产生知识的潜力。我将向《博物馆与社会》（Museum and Society）提交一篇论文，题为《美术馆的社会学家》（The socialist at The Art Gallery），我将以面向艺术专业人士的行业简明扼要地总结这篇论文。职业和学术发展我计划从事与文化产业有联系的社会学学术事业。这个奖学金的每一个环节都是为了给我重要的经验和联系。将这个申请组织到这些方面是为了申请Leverhulme早期职业奖学金，我将把他们都聚集在一起，并提出对各种艺术形式的装置的经验探索。我的导师将在这方面支持我，并指导拟议的Leverhulme项目。我还将利用奖学金参加、出席和联络两个会议，这两个会议都是该学科的重要事件。我将通过向两家期刊提交自己的作品，制定图书提案，并支持导师出版编辑集来获得学术出版经验。导师的专业知识将有助于我的智力发展。虽然我对劳动和材料过程的分析很强（正如我的考官所评论的那样），但围绕“意义”的思考将提高我工作的智力贡献。导师将在这方面支持我，我将撰写一篇论文，题为“使艺术有意义的工作”（文化社会学），这篇论文借鉴了我在蓝衣的一次展览装置和私人观点的博士分析。这将确保我的学术工作超越艺术社会学，进入更广阔的文化社会学和工作社会学领域。

Knowledge exchange: Visual sociologists and moving image artistsIn my PhD I identified a limitation in sociological approaches to moving image making: an over-reliance on the mainstream documentary format. This linear, narrative, and language-based way of visualising sociological stories and conducting empirical research limits the potential of the camera as a tool for sociological research. In contrast, artists and related theoreticians use the film camera to creatively explore and represent social life, often moving beyond screen-based moving-image (e.g. Nira Pereg, Angelica Mesiti). However, they often do so without the benefit of sociological methodologies which rigorously and reflexively question the relationship between filmmaker and subject. There is potential for visual sociologists to learn from moving image artists and theoreticians, and to exchange their sociological methodological insights.In conversation with Talbot Rice Gallery (and SDI in advisory capacity) I will organise a knowledge-exchange event putting moving image artists in conversation with sociologists. I will publish academic and practitioner-facing articles on this knowledge-exchange, and develop a book proposal. Collaborative Practice: Sociologists and cultural organisationsMy PhD collaboration with Bluecoat, Liverpool's centre for the contemporary arts, allowed me to do empirical qualitative research in a sustained and embedded way, to develop my theoretical understanding alongside Bluecoat's staff and public, and to share my research outputs through exhibitions and public programming. In a post-COVID world there will be a renewed appetite for platforming critical social research, and cultural institutions will be looking for ways to develop impactful public programmes. Sociologists are well placed to step into this gap, and it is important that the experiences of sociologists who have worked with cultural organisations are mapped out. I will conduct interviews with 10-15 sociologists or artists/ arts professionals who have worked in this way. I will use these interviews, critical reflection on my own experience, and participation in Atelier, the creative arts and the social sciences network at Edinburgh College of Art, to set out the ethical and practical concerns, as well as the knowledge generating potential, of such collaborations. I will submit a paper, 'The Sociologist at the Art Gallery,' to Museum and Society, which I will summarise in an industry-facing precis for Arts Professional. Career and Academic DevelopmentI plan to pursue an academic career in sociology with ties to the cultural industries. Each strand of this Fellowship is designed to give me vital experience and contacts for this. Organising this application into these strands is with a view to applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in which I will draw them all together and propose an empirical exploration of the installation of various art forms. My mentor will support me in this and mentor the proposed Leverhulme project. I will also use the Fellowship to attend, present, and network at two conferences both of which are important events in the discipline. I will gain academic publishing experience by submitting my own work to two journals, developing a book proposal, and supporting the mentor in the publication of an edited collection. The mentor's expertise will contribute to my intellectual development. While my analysis of labour and material processes is strong (as commented by my examiners) finessing my thinking around 'meaning' will boost the intellectual contribution of my work. The mentor will support me in this and I will develop a paper, 'The Work of Making Art Meaningful' (Cultural Sociology), which draws on my PhD analysis of an exhibition installation and private view at Bluecoat. This will ensure my academic work speaks beyond the sociology of art to the broader fields of cultural sociology and the sociology of work.