Cultural Dysphoria: Exploring British Asian Female Identities Through Arts Practices

文化焦虑：通过艺术实践探索英国亚裔女性身份

• 批准号: 2584525
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birmingham City University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2584525
• 关键词: Cultural; Dysphoria; Exploring; British; Asian

Broad generalisations of British Asian women exist in relation to their cultural identity. Often described as subservient (Ahmed, 2020), my study uses arts practice to critically question the associations of cultural perceptions for British Asian women. Avtar Brah's research will be a starting point. She states that the social reality of Asian women's lives in Britain is constituted around a complex articulation of the economic, political, and cultural modalities which mark the interrelationship between 'race', class, ethnicity, and gender (Brah, 1987). As a British Asian woman my research will draw on the growing body of research around the field of autoethnography. Through raising questions about intersectional feminism and belonging (Anitha, 2018), my practice based methodologies will also explore how British Asian artists -including Sutapa Biswas, Zarina Bhimji and Permindar Kaur-use self-reflexivity in their practice toexplore the performance of identities. Cultural Dysphoria can be understood as the dissonance between the social expectations of an individual's cultural performance or identity, and their desired embodiment of that culture, or uncertainty about where they fit into existing cultural categories (Sharma, 2017). My research will examine this firstly as a conceptual model, exploring the nature of being to understand difference through cultural experience; secondly, as a material model, embodying experience of dissonance using the phenomenon of Cultural Dysphoria. I seek to answer two related questions: - How can arts practice and theory articulate the performability (Butler, 2015; Hall, 2017) and complexities of intersectional (Crenshaw, 1989) British Asian female experience?- As a form of dissonance related to identity formation, in what ways can "Cultural Dysphoria" be developed as a conceptual and material model to address discourses on art practice, intersectionality and autoethnography in relation to British Asian women (Ahmed, 2008; Chang H, 2008)?The research will draw upon my own practice as an established artist. I will use sculpture, performance and film building upon my previous research and the autoethnographic approaches used on my Masters (distinction). The MA resulted in a publication and film, The Anthropology of the Self (2020), which won the Inaugural AIS award 2020 and was showcased at the AIS festival in Leicester. My Masters' Final Major Project was a series of artworks that tested and embodied the concept of Cultural Dysphoria and won the Tate Liverpool Award 2020. I will also draw on the networks through my commissions with Coventry Biennial and Ikon Gallery for the benefit of this PhD.

广泛概括的英国亚洲妇女存在的关系，他们的文化身份。通常被描述为屈从（艾哈迈德，2020年），我的研究使用艺术实践来批判性地质疑英国亚洲妇女的文化观念的关联。Avtar Brah的研究将是一个起点。她指出，在英国，亚洲妇女生活的社会现实是围绕着经济、政治和文化模式的复杂表达而构成的，这些模式标志着“种族”、阶级、族裔和性别之间的相互关系（Brah，1987年）。作为一名英国亚裔女性，我的研究将借鉴自我民族志领域不断增长的研究成果。通过提出关于交叉女权主义和归属感的问题（Anitha，2018），我基于实践的方法也将探索英国亚洲艺术家-包括Sutapa Biswas，Zarina Bhimji和Permindar Kaur-如何在他们的实践中使用自我反思来探索身份的表现。文化焦虑症可以理解为社会对个人文化表现或身份的期望与他们对该文化的期望体现之间的不和谐，或者对他们在现有文化类别中的位置的不确定性（Sharma，2017）。我的研究将首先将其作为一个概念模型来考察，通过文化体验来探索存在的本质，以理解差异;其次，作为一个物质模型，利用文化的Dynamoria现象来体现不和谐的体验。我试图回答两个相关的问题：-艺术实践和理论如何表达英国亚洲女性经验的可表演性（Butler，2015; Hall，2017）和交叉性（Crenshaw，1989）的复杂性？作为一种与身份形成相关的不和谐形式，“文化双音症”如何发展成为一种概念和物质模式，以解决与英国亚洲妇女有关的艺术实践，交叉性和自我民族志的话语（Ahmed，2008; Chang H，2008）？这项研究将借鉴我自己作为一个既定的艺术家的实践。我将使用雕塑，表演和电影建筑在我以前的研究和我的硕士（区别）使用的autoethnographic方法。MA导致出版物和电影，自我的人类学（2020年），赢得了2020年的首届AIS奖，并在莱斯特的AIS节上展出。我的硕士最后一个主要项目是一系列艺术品，测试和体现了文化dyphilia的概念，并赢得了泰特利物浦奖2020年。我还将通过我与考文垂双年展和Ikon画廊的委托来利用网络，以使这个博士学位受益。