Medicines of uncertainty: in a more-than-human world, how might polyvocal, practice-based performance methods reimagine spaces of hope following spell

不确定性的药物：在一个超越人类的世界中，基于实践的多声部表演方法如何重新构想咒语后的希望空间

• 批准号: 2586109
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 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-2586109
• 关键词: Medicines; uncertainty; more; than; human

Medicines of uncertainty: in a more-than-human world, how might polyvocal, practice-based performance methods reimagine spaces of hope following spells of illness?A diagnosis of cancer is essentially a diagnosis of uncertainty: it undermines an imagined future. This enquiry responds to the University of Exeter Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (WCCEH) call for engaged medical humanities research, exploring the complexity of health experiences beyond the scope of evidence-based medicine (Williams & Carel, 2018). A strength of my approach lies in the symbiosis of engaged practice-based methodologies, critical academic thinking, polyvocal narratives and lived-experience of cancer. The research is supervised by Dr Bryan Brown, University of Exeter Department of Drama, and Dr Maria Vaccarella, University of Bristol Department of English.In an ever more uncertain world, I propose that this research affords nuanced academic enquiry together with outputs, including artworks, delivered in engaging formats. Leading performance scholars, Heron & Kershaw argue that such open-ended material and embodied research foregrounds perception, awareness and intuition rather than more explicit cognitive processes. This creates space for uncertainty and ambiguity, what they call 'play-space', where novel insights can emerge. In this way, the creative practice as research - which emerges from uncertainty - performs the research question (as artist William Kentridge, explores with such clarity).Drawing on my transdisciplinary background in archaeology and visual art, I am aesthetically inspired by archaic magico medical artefacts, including Renaissance pop-up anatomy books and folding almanacs worn on the body of Medieval doctors. I plan to study collections in the Wellcome Library, the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museum. These agentic, social objects join a collective of human and more-than-human research participants, invited into dialogue. My community partners include Soundart Radio 102.5FM Dartington and Maketank performance space, Exeter. Performative theories, including New Materialism, are concerned with relational flow, blurring boundaries between subject and object in a reconfiguring of agency, causality and becoming. This research seeks to model tacit and multifaceted ways of knowing located in the interference patterns between "the body as experiential landscape" (Reid, 2010), and dialogue with others. It braids together studio and community arts practice, attentive listening, writing and diagramming, and engaging with materialities to enact and query knowing, thus bringing unrecognised or marginal realities into view. This is a productive route to explore unimagined ways of thinking, depicting and talking about transitional health points within the life course, grounded in lived experience. The study seeks to activate a redistribution of performative agency in more-than-human narratives of illness. Ultimately, performance medicine provokes this "not only by embracing dialogue, discomfort, uncertainty and open-endedness, but also by mobilising hope [...] that imagines how things could be different and then tries to effect change" (Bolaki, 2016).

不确定的药物：在一个超越人类的世界里，在疾病发作后，多声、基于实践的表演方法如何重新想象希望的空间？癌症的诊断本质上是对不确定性的诊断：它破坏了想象中的未来。这项调查响应了埃克塞特大学威康健康文化和环境中心（WCCEH）对医学人文研究的呼吁，探索超越循证医学范围的健康经验的复杂性（Williams & Carel, 2018）。我的方法的优势在于基于实践的方法、批判性学术思维、多声音叙述和癌症生活经验的共生关系。这项研究由埃克塞特大学戏剧系的布莱恩·布朗博士和布里斯托尔大学英语系的玛丽亚·瓦卡雷拉博士指导。在一个越来越不确定的世界里，我建议这项研究提供细致入微的学术探究，以及以引人入胜的形式提供的产出，包括艺术品。赫伦和克肖（Heron & Kershaw）认为，这种开放式的材料和具体化的研究强调了感知、意识和直觉，而不是更明确的认知过程。这为不确定性和模糊性创造了空间，他们称之为“游戏空间”，在这里可以产生新的见解。通过这种方式，作为研究的创造性实践——从不确定性中产生——执行研究问题（正如艺术家威廉·肯特里奇（William Kentridge）如此清晰地探索的那样）。凭借我在考古学和视觉艺术方面的跨学科背景，我从古代神奇的医疗文物中获得美学灵感，包括文艺复兴时期的弹出式解剖书和中世纪医生身上佩戴的折叠历书。我计划研究惠康图书馆、阿什莫尔和皮特里弗斯博物馆的藏品。这些真实的社会对象加入了人类和非人类研究参与者的集体，被邀请进行对话。我的社区合作伙伴包括达灵顿的Soundart电台102.5FM和埃克塞特的Maketank表演空间。行为理论，包括新唯物主义，关注关系流动，模糊主体和客体之间的界限，重新配置代理，因果关系和成为。本研究试图模拟位于“作为体验景观的身体”（Reid, 2010）和与他人对话之间的干扰模式中的隐性和多方面的认知方式。它将工作室和社区艺术实践、细心的倾听、写作和绘图结合在一起，并与材料一起制定和查询知识，从而将未被认识或边缘的现实带入视野。这是一种富有成效的途径，可以探索无法想象的思维方式，描绘和谈论生命历程中的过渡健康点，以生活经验为基础。该研究试图激活非人类疾病叙事中表演代理的重新分配。最终，表演医学激发了这种“不仅通过拥抱对话、不适、不确定性和开放性，而且通过调动希望……]想象事情可能会有什么不同，然后试图实现改变”（Bolaki, 2016）。