Episodic self-display and shifting modes of address: Performing identity in artists' moving image in a neoliberal era of post-truth

我的研究旨在调查身份的表演性构建及其在运动图像艺术作品中的潜在不稳定性。这项研究的背景是新自由主义--不仅被理解为一种政治和经济学说，支持私有财产和自由市场（哈维，2005），但也作为一个政权的主观化（福柯，2010年），优先考虑个人主义，自我管理和弹性（卢斯&波特，2017）.与参与者一起工作-他们将被选中，因为他们代表了新自由主义身份的各个方面的“成功”制定-我打算制作合适的移动图像艺术品，重新配置并试图破坏新自由主义的语言，手势和位置。以最近的英国政治史为案例研究-特别是新工党政策和围绕工作和福利的修辞-我的作品将探索引用，分离蒙太奇和重复的构图策略是否可以有效地突出假设（指理性的、自由的占有欲的个体）和变态（否认社会依赖）的新自由主义政策。（不）认同的理论，关注和影响将与社会学和心理学研究一起咨询到新自由主义的自我，以阐明为什么被剥夺公民权的公民在情感上投资于新自由主义身份。新自由主义治理（Mirowski描述为“双重真理”）和我们当前的后真理时代（被视为优先考虑个人化，情感意义而不是事实）之间存在关系。这就提出了关于艺术家动态图像中不同策略的当代功效的关键问题（例如，信息与情感的寻址模式）-这将在实践中得到检验。该项目具有教学目的，使用动态图像来提高对新自由主义问题的批判意识。与此同时，它旨在提出通过运动图像制定替代性集体主体性的可能性。身体姿态和多声音的演讲将被开发，以揭示新自由主义理想中被压抑的身份的社会和具体方面的目标。

My research seeks to investigate the performative construction of identity and its potential destabilisation in moving image artworks. The context for the study is neoliberalism - understood not only as a political and economic doctrine, championing private property and free markets (Harvey, 2005), but also as a regime of subjectification (Foucault, 2010) that prioritises individualism, self-management and resilience (Louth & Potter, 2017).Working with participants - who will be chosen because they represent a 'successful' enactment of aspects of neoliberal identity - I intend to make moving image artworks that appropriate, reconfigure and attempt to undermine languages, gestures and locations of neoliberalism. Taking recent British political history as a case study - in particular New Labour policy and rhetoric surrounding work and welfare - my artworks will explore whether compositional strategies of quotation, disjunctive montage and repetition can effectively highlight the presumptions (of a rational, free possessive individual) and perversions (denial of social dependency) of neoliberal policy.Theories of (dis)identification, attention and affect will be consulted alongside sociological and psychological studies into neoliberal selfhood to elucidate why disenfranchised citizens emotionally invest in neoliberal identities. A relationship is posited between neoliberal governance (described by Mirowski as 'double truth') and our current post-truth era (seen as prioritising individualised, emotional meanings over fact). This raises crucial questions about the contemporary efficacy of different strategies within artists' moving image (e.g. informational vs. emotive modes of address) - which will be tested in practice.The project has pedagogic intent, using the moving image to raise critical consciousness of the problems of neoliberalism. At the same time it aims to propose the possibility of enacting alternative, collective subjectivities via the moving image. Bodily gesture and multi-voiced speeches will be developed with the goal of revealing social and embodied aspects of identity repressed within the neoliberal ideal.