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

欺骗作为一种抵抗方式：军事模拟和沙漠景观中身体的另一种自由

• 批准号: 2435202
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2435202
• 关键词: Tricksterism; mode; resistance; alternative; freedom

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.

研究探讨了特定地点的艺术实践如何让身体参与运动和装置制作，从而改变我们对大面积地形及其边界的看法。研究推动身体进行荒谬的旅程，这与欺骗主义的改编相一致，质疑维持大范围地形所有权的空间动态。这项研究的核心目标是提出一种以实践为主导的方法，使人们能够对权力领域有不同的解读。 北美沙漠景观的矛盾愿景既是自由的象征，又是控制和暴力的场所，将为发展这些抵抗模式提供舞台。研究重点是火星和军队的沙漠训练场，分为三个主要部分：政治漫步和沙漠自由；沙漠景观的空间控制和军事化；和抵抗：多时间、多空间的欺骗——共享地形的新方式。研究试图回答以下问题：沙漠景观中的运动如何跨越边界？自发遭遇对力量结构有何影响？荒诞如何扰乱沙漠景观中的权力？通过场内和场外多种媒介不断发展的现场行动会创造什么机会？在美国的沙漠景观中，国家的力量和个人的自治主张以超现实和残酷的方式具体化。研究结合了旅行、遭遇和荒诞的艺术方法，发展了一种当代形式的骗术，作为质疑沙漠领土化的机制。在开放式旅程的框架内，穿越私人和公共沙漠景观，这种改编的骗术产生了战略事件、自发行动和不受控制的遭遇，将现实与新现实融为一体。大卫·列维·斯特劳斯和吉恩·费舍尔对欺骗主义作为抵抗殖民主义或地面入侵的一种方式的当代评估是一个起点。除了建立一份我认为具有当代骗子特征的艺术家名单之外，我还探索了特定地点的骗子如何通过持续的旅行、测绘和偶然事件，在这片土地上产生自己的多重现实、永久自治和未来替代方案。这种演变得到了巴罗斯和奥沙利文虚构风景、神话科学和外星人观点的著作的支持，作为创造新未来的手段。相关方法包括虚构旅行能力。例如，在惠特曼的《草叶集》中，他的行走使虚构的时间和空间移动成为可能，使他能够理解和反映周围的一切，并得出所有人类和物种都是平等的结论。 研究以骗子的镜像形式发展了骗术作为方法：通过多个寄存器/媒介进行变形，这些寄存器/媒介也被呈现在场外以倍增行动空间。史密森的场地/非场地理论对于我的研究探索空间干预及其与其在其他地方的表征的相互依存关系非常重要。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对领土进行分类的理论；斯科特对大地艺术方法的分析是挑战或支持军事化技术；克莱因关于军事训练“脚本空间”中的权力和控制的研究。