Tricksterism as a mode of resistance: An alternative freedom for the body inside military simulations and desertscapes

研究探讨了特定地点的艺术实践，让身体参与运动和装置制作，可以改变我们对大规模地形及其边界的看法。研究推动身体进行荒谬的旅程，这与诡计主义的适应相一致，质疑支持大规模地形所有权的空间动态。本研究的核心目标是提供一种以实践为导向的方法，使人们能够对权力领域进行不同的阅读。 北美沙漠景观的矛盾愿景，既是自由的象征，又是控制和暴力的地方，将形成发展这些抵抗模式的舞台。研究的重点是火星和军事的沙漠训练场，分为三个主要部分：政治漫步和沙漠自由;空间控制和沙漠军事化;抵抗：多时间，多空间的诡计-共享地形的新方式。研究试图回答以下问题：沙漠中的运动是如何跨越边界的？自发遭遇战对部队结构有什么影响？荒谬如何在沙漠中破坏权力？通过现场内外的多种媒介不断发展的现场活动创造了什么样的开放？美国的沙漠景观是国家的权力和个人的自治要求以超现实和残酷的方式结晶的环境。结合旅行，遭遇和荒谬的艺术方法，研究开发了一种当代形式的诡计，作为质疑沙漠领土化的机制。在一个开放式的旅程框架内，穿越私人和公共的沙漠景观，这种适应性的诡计产生了战略事件，自发行动和不受控制的遭遇，将现实与新的现实融合在一起。大卫·列维·施特劳斯和让·费希尔对诡计主义作为一种抵抗殖民主义或地面入侵的模式的当代评估是一个起点。除了建立一个艺术家的名单，我相信他们有当代的Trickster特质，我探索了特定地点的Tricksterism如何通过持续的旅行，映射和偶然发生，可以在土地上产生自己的倍增现实，永久的自治和未来的替代品。这种进化得到了Burrows和O 'Sullivan关于虚构景观，神话科学和外星人视角的工作的支持，作为创造新未来的一种手段。相关方法包括虚构旅行能力。例如，在惠特曼的《草叶集》中，他的行走使他能够穿越时空，让他能够理解和镜像周围的一切，并得出结论，所有人类和物种都是平等的。 研究以Trickster的镜像形式开发了Tricksterism作为方法：通过多个寄存器/媒介进行变形，这些寄存器/媒介也在场外呈现，以增加行动空间。Smithson的场地/非场地理论对我的研究探索空间干预及其与其他地方的代表性的相互依存关系很重要。进一步的支持文献包括伍德沃德关于军事空间如何构建景观和分类领土的理论;斯科特对土地艺术方法的分析，无论是挑战还是支持军事化技术;以及克莱因关于军事训练“脚本空间”中的权力和控制的工作。

Research explores how a site-specific art practice, engaging the body in movement and installation making, can shift our perceptions of large scale terrain and its borders. Research propels the body on absurd journeys, which align with an adaptation of Tricksterism, to question the spatial dynamics which uphold ownership of large scale terrain. The core objective for this research is to contribute to a practice-led method which enables a different reading of the field of power. The contradictory visions of North-American desertscapes, which are simultaneously a symbol of freedom, and a place of control and violence, will form the stage for developing these modes of resistance. Research focuses on desert training sites for Mars and the military, and is arranged into three main sections: Political rambling & desert freedom; Spatial control & militarisation of desertscapes; and Resistance: Tricksterism in multi-time, multi-space - new ways of sharing terrain. Research seeks to answer the following questions: How does movement cross borders in desertscapes? What is the effect of spontaneous encounter on force structure? How does absurdity disrupt power in desertscapes? What opening is created by evolving site actions through multiple mediums on and offsite? American desertscapes are environments where the nation's power and an individual's claim to autonomy crystalize in surreal and cruel ways. Combining artistic methods of journeying, encounter, and absurdity, research develops a contemporary form of Tricksterism as a mechanism for questioning territorialisation in the desert. Within the framework of an open ended journey, travelling across private and public desertscapes, this adapted Tricksterism produces strategic events, spontaneous action, and uncontrolled encounters, blending reality with new realities. David Levi Strauss and Jean Fisher's contemporary assessment of Tricksterism as a mode of resistance against colonialism, or ground invasion, is a jumping off point. Alongside building a list of artists, who I believe have contemporary Trickster traits, I explore how site-specific Tricksterism, through sustained journeying, mapping and chance occurrences, can generate its own multiplying realities, permanent autonomy and future alternatives on the land. This evolution is supported by Burrows and O'Sullivan's work on fictioning the landscape, myth-science and alien perspectives, as a means to create new futures. Relevant methods include the fictioning capacity of travel. For example, in Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass', his walk enables fictional moves through time and space, allowing him to understand and mirror all around him, and concluding that all humans and species are equal. Research develops Tricksterism-as-method in Trickster's mirror form: shapeshifting through multiple registers/mediums, which are also presented offsite to multiply the space of action. Smithson's theories of site/non-site, are important to my research's exploration of spatial intervention and the interdependent relationship to its representation elsewhere. Further supporting literature includes Woodward's theories on how military spaces frame landscapes and categorise territory; Scott's analysis of land art methods as either challenging or supporting militarised techniques; and Klein's work on power and control in the 'scripted space' of military training.