If This is a Man: a practice lead enquiry into questions of Authenticity, Jewishness and Masculinity

如果这是一个男人：一种实践引导对真实性、犹太性和男子气概问题的探究

• 批准号: 2244718
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal College of Art
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2244718
• 关键词: Man; practice; lead; enquiry; into

If This Is A Man: A practice led enquiry into questions of Authenticity, Jewishness and Masculinity will offer a contribution to an emerging field of art-writing that positions itself at the intersections of literature, performance, and contemporary art practice. The research is driven by my work as an artist that understands writing as a form of practice and includes performative poetic texts, exhibitions, events, and sculptural objects. The central research questions seek to investigate and develop a poetics of lamentation. The significance of this project comes at a time of heightened conflicting politics. Whilst the last Holocaust survivors are dying, far-right movements and episodes of anti-Semitism and fascism have been increasing. The urgency behind this project is to further the understanding of how artistic research as a mode of production can contribute to combatting such affects. Similarly, there has also been an increase in global male suicide, as such it is vital to ask, what are the narratives, spaces and opportunities that is causing this statistic and what can be done to change it? In achieving this project, I will draw upon my particular personal historical identity as a third-generation member of Jewish diaspora, using the histories of these migrations as the fulcrum around which my research intersects.Levi's text acts a foundational departure point for the pursuit of this project, combining a particular emotional sentiment with the urgency to understand historical events, producing a platform for contemplating our contemporary political and social climate. The term poetics of lamentation proposes radical openness as a methodology, which encompasses the use of fictionalisation, autobiography, poetry, theoretical analysis and psychoanalysis, in conjunction with the uses of intimacy and presence in performance and exhibition making. The aim is to create work that is vulnerable and honest in combination whilst maintaining a high degree of intellectual rigour. The core questions revolve around notions of authenticity, heritage, epigenetic inheritance, trauma, mourning and constructs of masculinity. In particular I intend to investigate the politics and poetics of testimony, exploring ideas of collective memory, tying them to the act of witnessing, mourning and grief. This research starts with Paul Celan and Jacques Derrida's analysis of his works in Sovereignties in Question, moving into the works of Louis Zukofsky, Nelly Sachs, Fred Moten and Maggie Nelson. This pursuit is combined with an on-going study of the writings of Walter Benjamin, bell hooks, and Hannah Arendt. I will also explore the scientific field of epigenetic inheritance, which studies the effects of trauma and historical events upon the make-up of DNA. Most recently this research was conducted on survivors of the Holocaust, suggesting that the effects of their trauma had been passed down through generations in the genetic make-up. This research intersects with W.G Sebald's Austerlitz and The Emigrants as well the work of Christian Boltanski. These explorations are attached to questions of auto-biography, debating whether it is possible to authentically understand one's experiences without understanding the migrations and events that lead to one's position, security and place?

如果这是一个男人：一个以实践为导向的对真实性、犹太性和男性气质问题的探究将为一个新兴的艺术写作领域做出贡献，这个领域将自己定位在文学、表演和当代艺术实践的交叉点上。这项研究是由我作为一名艺术家的工作驱动的，我将写作理解为一种实践形式，包括表演性的诗歌文本，展览，事件和雕塑对象。中心研究问题寻求调查和发展的哀歌诗学。这个项目的重要性来自于政治冲突加剧的时期。虽然最后一批大屠杀幸存者正在死去，但极右运动以及反犹太主义和法西斯主义的事件一直在增加。这个项目背后的紧迫性是进一步了解艺术研究作为一种生产方式如何有助于对抗这种影响。同样，全球男性自杀率也在上升，因此，必须问，造成这一统计数据的叙述、空间和机会是什么，以及可以做些什么来改变它？在完成这个项目时，我将利用我作为第三代犹太侨民的特殊个人历史身份，使用这些移民的历史作为我的研究交叉的支点。Levi的文本作为追求这个项目的基本出发点，将特殊的情感情感与理解历史事件的紧迫性相结合，为思考我们当代的政治和社会气候提供了一个平台。哀歌诗学一词提出了激进的开放性作为一种方法论，它包括使用虚构，自传，诗歌，理论分析和精神分析，以及在表演和展览制作中使用亲密和在场。我们的目标是创造一个脆弱和诚实的组合，同时保持高度的智力严谨的工作。核心问题围绕着真实性、遗产、表观遗传、创伤、哀悼和男性气质的概念。特别是，我打算调查政治和证词的诗学，探索集体记忆的想法，将它们与见证，哀悼和悲伤的行为联系起来。本研究从保罗·策兰和雅克·德里达对《主权问题》的分析开始，进入到路易斯·祖科夫斯基、耐莉·萨克斯、弗雷德·莫滕和玛吉·纳尔逊的作品中。这种追求是结合了沃尔特本雅明，贝尔胡克和汉娜阿伦特的著作正在进行的研究。我还将探索表观遗传的科学领域，研究创伤和历史事件对DNA组成的影响。最近，这项研究是对大屠杀幸存者进行的，表明他们的创伤影响已经通过遗传组成代代相传。本研究与W.G Sebald的奥斯特里茨和移民以及Christian Boltanski的工作交叉。这些探索与自传的问题有关，争论是否有可能在不了解导致一个人地位、安全和地方的移民和事件的情况下真实地理解一个人的经历？