Curating by Community Consent? An investigation of the civic art gallery's strategies to make collections and displays more "representative"

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• 批准号: 2885470
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Teesside University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885470
• 关键词: Curating; Community; Consent; investigation; civic

Black Lives Matter protesters' de-pedestalling of colonial-era statues in 2020 starkly reinforced the need for the arts and heritage sector to develop more equitable modes of exhibition and "improve on accessibility and inclusivity" (Museums Association 2020) for historically under-represented communities. Since the late-1960s, Bradford's Cartwright Hall Art Gallery has sought to diversify displays, expand collections, and initiate community partnerships in ways that better reflect its multicultural, particularly South Asian, demographic. Working closely with its archives and curatorial team, the researcher will produce a critical, historical, and practically-informed investigation of the diversification strategies deployed by this major civic art space.This project will use a combination of methods to explore the overarching question of how civic art institutions like Cartwright have worked historically - and can today work - better to represent diverse constituencies. The student will begin with archival research into relevant material documenting such efforts, and observation of current practice. They will then use critical insights from postcolonial, South Asian, museums, and cultural studies; curatorial policy and practice; and community consultation, to create a new cross-disciplinary framework for contextualising and analysing strategies for inclusion in relation to the research questions.

Black Lives Matter抗议者在2020年对殖民时代雕像的拆除，明显加强了艺术和遗产部门为历史上代表性不足的社区开发更公平的展览模式和“改善无障碍性和包容性”（博物馆协会2020）的必要性。自20世纪60年代末以来，布拉德福德的卡特赖特大厅艺术画廊一直在寻求多样化的展示，扩大收藏，并以更好地反映其多元文化，特别是南亚人口的方式发起社区合作伙伴关系。研究人员将与其档案和策展团队密切合作，对这一主要的城市艺术空间所采用的多元化战略进行批判性的、历史性的和实践性的调查。该项目将使用多种方法来探索卡特赖特这样的城市艺术机构在历史上如何运作-以及今天如何运作-更好地代表不同的选区。学生将开始与档案研究到相关材料记录这些努力，并观察目前的做法。然后，他们将使用来自后殖民，南亚，博物馆和文化研究的批判性见解;策展政策和实践;和社区咨询，以创建一个新的跨学科框架，用于情境化和分析与研究问题相关的包容性策略。