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

巧妙的社会学：探索社会学与艺术世界之间的跨学科途径

• 批准号: ES/W007002/1
• 负责人: Laura Harris
• 金额: $ 12.2万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW007002%2F1
• 关键词: Artful; Sociologies; Exploring; Avenues; Interdisciplinarity

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.

知识交流：视觉社会学家和运动图像艺术家在我的博士学位中，我发现了社会学方法对运动图像制作的限制：过度依赖主流纪录片格式。这种线性、叙事和基于语言的社会学故事可视化和实证研究方式限制了相机作为社会学研究工具的潜力。相反，艺术家和相关理论家使用电影摄影机创造性地探索和表现社会生活，通常超越基于屏幕的运动图像（例如Nira Pereg，Angelica Mesiti）。然而，他们这样做往往没有社会学方法的好处，严格和反思的问题之间的关系，电影制片人和主题。视觉社会学家有可能从运动图像艺术家和理论家那里学习，并交流他们的社会学方法论见解。在与塔尔博特赖斯画廊（和SDI顾问）的对话中，我将组织一个知识交流活动，让运动图像艺术家与社会学家对话。我将发表关于这个知识交流的学术和面向专家的文章，并制定一本书的建议。合作实践：社会学家和文化组织我的博士合作与Bluecoat，利物浦的当代艺术中心，让我做实证定性研究在一个持续的和嵌入式的方式，发展我的理论理解与Bluecoat的工作人员和公众，并通过展览和公共节目分享我的研究成果。在后COVID时代，人们将重新渴望将批判性社会研究平台化，文化机构将寻找开发有影响力的公共项目的方法。社会学家很适合填补这一空白，重要的是，社会学家与文化组织合作的经验被绘制出来。我将采访10-15位以这种方式工作的社会学家或艺术家/艺术专业人士。我将利用这些采访，对自己的经验进行批判性反思，并参与爱丁堡艺术学院的创造性艺术和社会科学网络，以阐述这种合作的伦理和实践问题，以及知识生成潜力。我将向博物馆和社会提交一篇论文，“美术馆的社会学家”，我将在面向艺术专业人士的行业摘要中进行总结。职业和学术发展我计划从事与文化产业有关的社会学学术生涯。这个团契的每一个环节都是为了给我重要的经验和联系。将此应用程序组织到这些链中是为了申请Leverhulme早期职业奖学金，我将把它们都集中在一起，并提出对各种艺术形式的安装进行经验探索。我的导师将在这方面支持我，并指导拟议中的Leverhulme项目。我还将利用奖学金参加，目前，并在两个会议，这两个都是在纪律的重要事件网络。我将通过向两个期刊提交我自己的作品，开发一个图书提案，并支持编辑集合的出版导师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。虽然我对劳动和物质过程的分析很强（正如我的考官所评论的那样），但我对“意义”的思考将提高我工作的智力贡献。导师将支持我在这方面，我将制定一份文件，“使艺术有意义的工作”（文化社会学），这借鉴了我的博士学位分析展览装置和私人视图在Bluecoat。这将确保我的学术工作超越艺术社会学，涉及更广泛的文化社会学和工作社会学领域。

项目成果

Private View? The Organisational Performance of 'Privateness' and 'Publicness' at an Art Gallery

• DOI: 10.1177/17499755221147610
• 发表时间: 2023-04-17
• 期刊: CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 1.9
• 作者: Harris，Laura

The opening of an exhibition: a photo essay

展览开幕：一篇摄影文章

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Harris, L

Sociology on Screen and Beyond

银幕及其他领域的社会学

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Harris, L

The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music - New Directions and New Discoveries

艺术和音乐的文化社会学——新方向和新发现

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11420-5_9
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Harris L

Occasioning cultural patronage: A mesosociological approach

偶然的文化赞助：中社会学方法

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Harris, L