Yeren: A Counter Figure

野人：反派人物

• 批准号: 2859140
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 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-2859140
• 关键词: Yeren; Counter; Figure

This practice-based research looks at the notion of "mutated species" as an exiled figure to challenge repressed political, environmental and ethnic issues in both Mao-era and contemporary China. Predicated on contemporary art practices, this project will examine the figure of Yeren in Hubei province, drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that embraces scientific and mythological accounts. Crucially, the project seeks to establish a nuanced exploration of decolonial methods outside of the existing Western decolonial framework.Although specific to the context of Hubei/China, Yeren is an emotional and intersectional response to unspoken colonial violence. Yeren is an apeman species reported to live in the Shengnonjia Forestry Region in Hubei. The sightings ofYeren date back to ancient China. It became a modern legend which was subsequently repressed during Mao's Cultural Revolution period. Its contemporary resurgence aligns with recent deforestation in the area. Over time, Yeren has become intertwined with scientific debates over human origin, as well as racist representation of local ethnic tribes. Yeren thus may function as a prism to simultaneously address entangled questions around cultural and ethnic identity, ecologies and ideologies.With a focus on moving-image, sound and multimedia storytelling, this practice-based research aims to re-imagine Yeren's ecological presence, social organisation, interaction with local ethnic tribes, and ways of dismantling political/psychological repressions from within. Drawing on decolonial art practices such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Patty Chang, the project will consult a variety of archives - both physical and online, in the UK and abroad - as well as embrace folklore, anecdotes and oral histories as means to articulated divergent knowledge. As such, my research will be conducted across media, drawing on the specific characteristics of moving image, sound and experimental modes of scoring to recalibrate the charged historical and contemporary narratives around Yeren.

这项基于实践的研究着眼于“变异物种”的概念，将其视为一个流亡人物，以挑战毛泽东时代和当代中国被压抑的政治，环境和种族问题。这个项目以当代艺术实践为基础，以科学和神话的跨学科方法来审视湖北省的野人形象。最重要的是，该项目试图在现有的西方非殖民主义框架之外，对非殖民主义方法进行细致入微的探索。尽管是针对湖北/中国的背景，但野人是对不言而喻的殖民暴力的情感和交叉反应。野人是湖北神农架林区的一种猿人。关于野人的传说可以追溯到中国古代。它成为一个现代的传说，随后在毛泽东的文化大革命期间被镇压。它的当代复兴与该地区最近的森林砍伐相一致。随着时间的推移，Yeren已经与关于人类起源的科学辩论以及当地民族部落的种族主义代表交织在一起。因此，野人可以作为一个棱镜，同时解决围绕文化和种族身份，生态和意识形态的纠缠问题。这项基于实践的研究专注于移动图像，声音和多媒体故事讲述，旨在重新想象野人的生态存在，社会组织，与当地民族部落的互动，以及从内部拆除政治/心理压抑的方法。该项目借鉴了Apichatpong Weerasethakul和Patty Chang等非殖民地艺术实践，将查阅英国和国外的各种实物和在线档案，并将民间传说、轶事和口述历史作为表达不同知识的手段。因此，我的研究将跨媒体进行，利用移动图像，声音和实验评分模式的具体特点，重新校准围绕Yeren的历史和当代叙事。