Phenology out of joint: An investigation into seasonality as a model for arts practice

物候学脱节：对季节性作为艺术实践模型的调查

• 批准号: 2589475
• 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-2589475
• 关键词: Phenology; out; joint; investigation; into

This research will explore how the concept of seasonality can be applied and understood using arts practice in combination with Phenology; the study of natural processes that make up the different seasons, ie. migration, emergence, growth, and decay. Using autoethnographic writing and practice- based methods including performance, object making and video work, I will explore how art can embody the seasons beyond mere representation.This PhD, therefore, seeks to answer the following research questions:How does seasonality work to construct a sense of place and time? How can art practice embody the concept of seasonality and as a method, work with seasonal variability; ultimately reducing contribution to anthropogenic climate change?Now that popular science has embedded the notion of human made climate-change into public consciousness (Latour, 2017; Stengers, 2015) how can arts practice disrupt current understandings of the four-season framework in the UK, creating a new sense of embodying time?Building on the work of Delia Hannah A Year Without a Winter (2018), I will focus on lived time within environmental philosophy, by questioning the existing framework of the four seasons. I will develop an exhibition using the Gregorian calendar model, partially inspired by the exhibition Garden of Six Seasons (2020) which explored Nepali systems of counting time.The research will be composed of eight different seasonal periods over two years of the PhD, following the four seasons in the UK - a temperate maritime climate characterised by cool winters and warm summers - leaving 6 months for planning either side, and 6 months for concluding the written research and finalising artworks and exhibitions. The research will respond to the uncertainty of seasonal variations - for example, a winter exhibition in summer. This will include researching how rhythms of animal and plant life have the capacity to be thrown out of sequence (Bastian 2017) representing a phenology out of joint, and investigating how these phenomena further affect human relationships to timekeeping.

本研究将探讨如何利用艺术实践与物候学相结合来应用和理解季节性的概念；对构成不同季节的自然过程的研究，即。迁移、出现、生长和衰退。使用民族志写作和基于实践的方法，包括表演、物体制作和视频作品，我将探索艺术如何超越单纯的表现来体现季节。因此，本博士旨在回答以下研究问题：季节性如何构建地点和时间感？艺术实践如何体现季节性的概念，并作为一种方法，与季节的变化一起工作？最终减少对人为气候变化的影响？既然大众科学已将人为气候变化的概念纳入公众意识（Latour，2017；Stengers，2015），艺术实践如何颠覆英国当前对四个季节框架的理解，创造一种新的体现时间的感觉？以 Delia Hannah 的《无冬之年》（2018）的作品为基础，我将重点关注环境中的生活时间 哲学，通过质疑现有的四个季节的框架。我将使用公历模型开发一个展览，部分灵感来自“六季花园”展览（2020），该展览探讨了尼泊尔的计时系统。该研究将在博士两年的时间里由八个不同的季节周期组成，遵循英国的四个季节——以冬季凉爽和夏季温暖为特征的温带海洋性气候——留出 6 个月的时间进行规划，以及 6 个月的时间来完成书面研究和定稿 艺术品和展览。该研究将对季节变化的不确定性做出反应——例如，夏季举办冬季展览。这将包括研究动物和植物生命的节律如何有能力被打乱（Bastian 2017），代表物候失调，并调查这些现象如何进一步影响人类与计时的关系。