'A Little Duck's Nest...of Bad Words': The Sound Art and Visual Culture of the Russian Anti-Book Experiment, 1881-1932

“小鸭子的巢……脏话”：俄罗斯反图书实验的声音艺术和视觉文化，1881-1932

• 批准号: 2859157
• 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-2859157
• 关键词: Little; Duck; Nest...of; Bad; Words

This project examines the innovative multi-sensory books, or 'anti-books', produced through the experimental collaborations of the early twentieth-century Russian futurist artists and writers. It is the first in-depth study to focus on the performative aspects of these 'anti-books', comprising a dynamic interplay of sound, text, image, and mixed materials in the context of the turbulent political, cultural, and artistic developments in Russia. Using case studies focusing on the collaborations of the poets Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) and Aleksei Kruchenykh (1886-1969), and the painter Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964), along with some notable secondary collaborators, the project explores their engagement in the book experiment and how their results aligned with or departed from those of their European counterparts. The research is based on examination of extensive archival material (including letters, photographs, memoirs, reviews of Russian futurist public debates, theatrical performances and impromptu street events); analysis of the British Library Collection of anti-books (a rarely examined resource that also provides the basis for comparisons with variant anti-book copies held in other collections) and a comparative review of institutional cataloguing systems in order to identify further antibooks, frequently unrecognised.Working at the intersection of visual culture, literature, sound, performance and museum collections, the research brings together and extends the critical methods of Nancy Perloff whose 2016 study 'Explodity' focused on the anti-books' sonic dimension, the visual theorist Johanna Drucker's 'zone of activity' framework to investigate the multiple material and conceptual dimensions of the anti-books, and Richard Schechner's performance theories to re-contextualise them.As the first interdisciplinary study to focus on performative aspects of these 'anti-books', the thesis will provide a new theory-based typology that locates their subversive role within the shifting cultural politics of Russia, extends and deepens our understanding of the artist's book genre, and aids identification and cataloguing of such works in public/private collections.

该项目考察了创新的多感官书籍，或“反书籍”，通过20世纪早期俄罗斯未来主义艺术家和作家的实验性合作而产生。这是第一次深入研究这些“反书”的表现方面，包括声音、文本、图像和混合材料在俄罗斯动荡的政治、文化和艺术发展背景下的动态相互作用。通过对诗人韦利米尔·赫列布尼科夫（1885-1922）、阿列克谢·克鲁申尼科夫（1886-1969）、画家米哈伊尔·拉里尼奥夫（1881-1964）以及一些著名的次要合作者的合作进行案例研究，该项目探讨了他们在图书实验中的参与情况，以及他们的结果与欧洲同行的结果是如何一致或偏离的。这项研究是基于对大量档案材料的审查（包括信件、照片、回忆录、对俄罗斯未来主义公开辩论的评论、戏剧表演和即兴街头活动）；对大英图书馆馆藏的反书进行分析（一种很少被检查的资源，也为与其他馆藏中持有的各种反书副本进行比较提供了基础），并对机构编目系统进行比较审查，以确定更多的反书，通常未被识别。在视觉文化、文学、声音、表演和博物馆收藏的交叉点上，该研究汇集并扩展了Nancy Perloff的批判方法，Nancy Perloff的2016年研究“Explodity”专注于反书籍的声音维度，视觉理论家Johanna Drucker的“活动区域”框架研究反书籍的多个材料和概念维度，Richard Schechner的表演理论重新语境化它们。作为第一个专注于这些“反书”的表现方面的跨学科研究，本文将提供一个新的基于理论的类型学，定位他们在俄罗斯不断变化的文化政治中的颠覆作用，扩展和深化我们对艺术家书籍类型的理解，并帮助识别和编目这些作品在公共/私人收藏中。