City Recorder: Alasdair Gray's Practice & The 'Disappearing City' of Glasgow

城市记录者：阿拉斯代尔·格雷的实践

• 批准号: 2738360
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2738360
• 关键词: City; Recorder; Alasdair; Gray; Practice

Central subject of Alasdair Gray's life's work: the city of Glasgow. This project will research how his practice can be understood as a lifelong attempt to record the people and places of his 'disappearing city'. Through collaboration with The Alasdair Gray Archive (AGA), this project will interrogate the ways Gray's practice centres marginalised people and places. AGA's physical assets represent a rich resource; the planned oral history interviews with Gray's elderly contemporaries ensure this time-sensitive project adds to, as well as draws from, this essential cultural asset. Questions:- In what ways can Gray's practice be understood as an attempt to portray Glasgow as a 'disappearing city' and how can we 'root' this using objects/material/interviews?- How can conducting Oral History interviews with Gray's contemporaries, friends and collaborators contribute to an understanding of Gray's 'disappearing Glasgow' in terms of both people and places?- How can conducting research in collaboration with AGA contribute to new understandings and fresh perspectives on Gray's oeuvre in relation to equality, under representation, life experiences within the framework of multi-artform learning?- How might research into particular Gray works of that record the people and places of Glasgow contribute to a broader understanding of the city's past.Problems: Gray is primarily seen as an influential literary writer of postmodern fictions which show how Glasgow might become a place of imaginative potential. Gray's work certainly had a significant cultural impact, with his novel Lanark (1981) focusing on Glasgow changing the cultural landscape. But Gray's decades of expansive practice in the visual and literary arts shows this view to be too reductive. This PhD will conduct research addressing Gray as a polymath whose primary interest was 'recording the disappearing city'. This meant centring the lives of ordinary Glaswegians in visual and literary art that. AGA contains much detail of Gray's process, approach, belief systems and correspondence. The contents of AGA have the potential to influence views of Gray's oeuvre. The project will interrogate the resources at the archive and add to them with primary research in the form of oral history interviews with those whose voices can contribute to a fuller understanding of Gray's process and Glasgow's broader history. City Recorder:Gray's period as City Recorder for The People's Palace Museum, Glasgow, in 1977-79, he portraited the unemployed of the city in juxtaposition with its Provost and politicians and depicted buildings since knocked down. In his auto pictography, A Life in Pictures, Gray wrote that a key part of this commission was to depict 'streets about to be changed or demolished', 'private members of the general public' and 'interiors of workplaces with the workers'. Gray stated 'The People's Palace museum had been built on Glasgow Green in 1898 as a cultural centre in the city's east end to balance Kelvingrove Museum in the west, yet it had very few exhibits and no paintings of Glasgow streets or people later than the early 20th Century'. He was appointed Artist Recorder because of his consistent approach to depicting Glasgow. The work he produced is a perfect example of that approach at work and deserves fuller attention.Recording GlasgowGray's approach was to resist presentations of Glasgow that sought to erase marginalized voices. In his nonfiction collected works Of Me & Others (in which he portraited unknown Glaswegians), Gray consistently resisted definitions of his city that avoided presenting it in all its diversity. In his Hillhead Subway mural (2011), Gray presented bin men and street cleaners alongside politicians. The very fact that his work was placed in the landscape, in free-to-access places such as subway stations was in itself a statement of intent, the artist seeking to remake Glasgow with ordinary Glaswegians at its heart.

阿拉斯代尔·格雷一生作品的中心主题：格拉斯哥城。这个项目将研究他的实践如何被理解为一个终身的尝试，记录他的“消失的城市”的人和地方。通过与阿拉斯代尔格雷档案馆（阿加）的合作，该项目将询问格雷的实践中心边缘化的人和地方的方式。阿加的实物资产代表了丰富的资源;计划中的口述历史采访格雷的老年同时代人确保这个时间敏感的项目增加，以及借鉴，这一重要的文化资产。问题：格雷的做法在哪些方面可以被理解为试图将格拉斯哥描绘成一个“消失的城市”，我们如何使用物体/材料/采访来“根除”这一点？如何进行口述历史采访格雷的同时代人，朋友和合作者有助于了解格雷的“消失的格拉斯哥”的人和地方？如何与阿加合作进行研究，有助于对格雷的作品在平等，在代表性，生活经验的框架内的多艺术形式学习的新的理解和新的观点？如何可能对特定的格雷作品的研究，记录的人和地方的格拉斯哥有助于更广泛地了解城市的过去。问题：格雷主要被视为一个有影响力的文学作家的后现代小说，显示如何格拉斯哥可能成为一个地方的想象力的潜力。格雷的作品无疑产生了重大的文化影响，他的小说《拉纳克》（1981）聚焦于改变文化景观的格拉斯哥。但格雷几十年来在视觉和文学艺术方面的广泛实践表明，这种观点过于简化。这位博士将进行研究，将格雷视为一位博学者，其主要兴趣是“记录消失的城市”。这意味着将普通马拉维人的生活集中在视觉和文学艺术中。阿加包含了格雷的过程，方法，信仰体系和通信的许多细节。《阿加》的内容有可能影响人们对格雷全部作品的看法。该项目将询问档案馆的资源，并以口述历史采访的形式进行初步研究，这些人的声音有助于更全面地了解格雷的过程和格拉斯哥更广泛的历史。城市记录员：格雷在1977-79年担任格拉斯哥人民故宫博物馆的城市记录员期间，他描绘了城市的失业者与其教务长和政治家并置，并描绘了被推倒的建筑物。格雷在他的自动象形文字作品《图画中的生活》（A Life in Pictures）中写道，这项任务的一个关键部分是描绘“即将被改变或拆除的街道”、“普通公众的私人成员”和“工人工作场所的内部”。格雷说：“人民宫殿博物馆于1898年在格拉斯哥绿色上建成，作为城市伦敦东区的文化中心，以平衡西部的凯文格罗夫博物馆，但它的展品很少，而且在20世纪初之后没有格拉斯哥街道或人物的绘画。他被任命为艺术家记录，因为他一贯的方法来描绘格拉斯哥。他制作的作品是这种方法在工作中的一个完美的例子，值得更充分的关注。记录格雷的方法是抵制格拉斯哥的介绍，试图消除边缘化的声音。在他的非小说作品集《我和其他人》（他在其中描绘了不知名的马拉维人）中，格雷一直抵制对他的城市的定义，避免以其多样性来呈现它。在他的希尔黑德地铁壁画（2011年），格雷提出垃圾箱男子和街道清洁工与政治家。事实上，他的作品被放置在风景中，在地铁站等自由进入的地方，这本身就是一个意图的声明，艺术家试图重塑格拉斯哥与普通的马拉维人在其心脏。