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

这项研究将探索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;研究构成不同季节的自然过程，即。迁移、出现、增长和衰退。我将运用自我民族志写作和实践方法，包括表演、实物制作和录像作品，探索艺术如何超越单纯的再现来体现季节。因此，我的博士学位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，与季节性变化一起工作，最终减少对人为气候变化的贡献？既然大众科学已经将人为气候变化的概念嵌入到公众意识中（Latour，2017; Stengers，2015），艺术实践如何打破目前对英国四季框架的理解，创造一种体现时间的新感觉？基于迪利亚汉娜的作品《没有冬天的一年》（2018），我将通过质疑现有的四季框架，关注环境哲学中的生活时间。我将使用格里历模型开发一个展览，部分灵感来自于六季花园（2020），该展览探索了尼泊尔的计时系统。该研究将由八个不同的季节组成，为期两年的博士学位，遵循英国的四季-温和的海洋性气候，以凉爽的冬天和温暖的夏天为特征-留下6个月的时间来规划任何一方，6个月完成书面研究和完成艺术品和展览。该研究将对季节变化的不确定性做出反应-例如，夏季的冬季展览。这将包括研究动物和植物生命的节奏如何有能力被抛出序列（巴斯蒂安2017），代表了一个关节的物候，并调查这些现象如何进一步影响人类与计时的关系。

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.