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结构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（Harvey, 2005），而且被理解为一种主体化的制度（Foucault, 2010），优先考虑个人主义、自我管理和弹性（Louth & Potter, 2017）。我打算与参与者合作——他们将被选中，因为他们代表了新自由主义身份的“成功”方面的制定——制作适合、重新配置并试图破坏新自由主义语言、姿态和地点的动态图像艺术作品。以近期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——我的艺术作品将探索引用、分离蒙太奇和重复的构成策略是否能有效地突出新自由主义政策的假设（理性的、自由占有的个人）和歪曲（否认社会依赖）。（非）认同、注意力和情感理论将与新自由主义自我的社会学和心理学研究一起被参考，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。新自由主义治理（米罗斯基将其描述为“双重真理”）与我们当前的后真理时代（被视为将个性化、情感意义置于事实之上）之间存在关系。这就提出了一个至关重要的问题，即在艺术家的运动图像中不同策略的当代有效性（例如，信息与情感的称呼模式）——这将在实践中得到检验。该项目具有教学意图，使用动态图像来提高对新自由主义问题的批判性意识。同时，它旨在通过运动图像提出制定替代的，集体的主体性的可能性。肢体动作和多声演讲将被发展，以揭示新自由主义理想中被压抑的社会和具体身份方面的目标。

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.