Unravelling Text: Reading as a Polyphonic Practice

解开文本：阅读作为复调练习

• 批准号: 2480127
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Glasgow School 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-2480127
• 关键词: Unravelling; Text; Reading; Polyphonic; Practice

Within traditional Western scholarship, the practice of reading is generally perceived as a solitaryintellectual pursuit and the practice of critique considered a form of analysis based on judgement,hierarchization and refutation. This supposedly neutral image of the solitary scholar and the stringentregulations of Western scholarship have been formed through the colonial, patriarchal and classist historyof the academy. Inspired by current urgent decolonial and feminist discussions embracing multiple ways ofknowing and in conversation with the work of black feminist scholars such as Jennifer Nash, Amber JamillaMusser and Saidiya Hartman, my research will investigate the complexities of reading and critique asmaterial, social practices.The outcome of my project will be a new practice-as-research methodology for decolonial and feministcritique, grounded in what I call an expanded literacy. If literacy in its most basic sense is the ability to readand write, then an expanded literacy is one that enables the literate to read and write multimodally.Drawing on this expanded literacy, the methodology will be developed through embroidery andprintmaking practices built upon the foundations of my existing citational practice of 'Stitch Theory', whichinvolves reading, extracting, devotionally embroidering and gifting quotations from scholarly texts.Following this thread, I will explore the imbrication of the supposedly domestic and gestural practice ofembroidery and the purportedly public and static practice of printmaking. Through my engagement withthese media I will elucidate how the circulation of scholarly thought is informed by material conditions andthe perception of those materialities. The creation of the methodology will be advanced through a series ofparticipatory workshops and interventions, allowing me to generate research material and challenge thechronically entrenched colonial and patriarchal conception of text as a fixed, linear object.

在传统的西方学术中，阅读的实践通常被认为是一种单独的智力追求，而批评的实践则被认为是一种基于判断、分层和反驳的分析形式。这种孤独学者的中立形象和西方学术的严格规定是通过殖民、父权和阶级主义的学术历史形成的。受当前紧迫的非殖民化和女权主义讨论的启发，包括多种认识方式，并与黑人女权主义学者（如Jennifer Nash， Amber JamillaMusser和Saidiya Hartman）的作品进行对话，我的研究将调查阅读和批评作为材料，社会实践的复杂性。我的项目的成果将是一种新的实践研究方法，用于非殖民化和女权主义批评，基于我所谓的扩大识字。如果读写能力最基本的意义是读写能力，那么扩展后的读写能力就是使有读写能力的人能够以多种方式读写。利用这种扩展的识字能力，方法将通过刺绣和版画实践来发展，这些实践建立在我现有的“针法理论”引用实践的基础上，包括阅读、提取、虔诚地刺绣和赠送学术文本中的引文。沿着这条线索，我将探讨所谓的国内和姿态的刺绣实践与所谓的公共和静态的版画实践的融合。通过我与这些媒介的接触，我将阐明学术思想的流通是如何受到物质条件和对这些物质的感知的影响的。方法的创造将通过一系列参与式研讨会和干预来推进，使我能够产生研究材料，并挑战长期根深蒂固的殖民和父权观念，即文本是固定的、线性的对象。