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

我的研究旨在调查运动图像艺术作品中身份的表演性构建及其潜在的不稳定。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原则，拥护私有财产和自由市场(哈维，2005)，而且被理解为一种主观化制度(福柯，2010)，优先考虑个人主义、自我管理和韧性(劳斯和波特，2017)。与参与者合作--他们将被选中，因为他们代表了新自由主义身份的某些方面--我打算制作适合、重新配置并试图破坏新自由主义语言、手势和位置的移动图像艺术品。我的作品将以英国近代政治史为个案研究--尤其是新工党政策以及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组合策略是否能够有效地突出新自由主义政策的假设(理性、自由占有的个人)和扭曲(否认社会依赖)。(不)认同、关注和影响的理论将与对新自由主义自我的社会学和心理学研究一起参考，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认同。新自由主义统治(米洛夫斯基将其描述为“双重真理”)与我们当前的后真相时代(被视为优先考虑个人化的情感意义而非事实)之间存在着一种关系。这就提出了关于艺术家活动图像中不同策略(例如，信息性与情绪性称呼方式)在当代的有效性的关键问题--这将在实践中得到检验。该项目具有教学意图，使用活动图像来提高对新自由主义问题的批判性意识。同时，它的目的是提出通过运动图像来制定另类的集体主体性的可能性。将发展身体手势和多声音演讲，目的是揭示在新自由主义理想中被压抑的身份的社会和具体化方面。

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.