Nature's Great Experiment\n(A Visual Documentary Investigation into The Study of Twins and Behavioural Genetics)

大自然的伟大实验 （双胞胎和行为遗传学研究的视觉纪录片调查）

• 批准号: AH/E000010/1
• 负责人: Jordan Baseman
• 金额: $ 1.01万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE000010%2F1
• 关键词: Nature; Great; Experiment; Visual; Documentary

The title of this project, 'Nature's Great Experiment', refers to the phrase that scientists and behavioural geneticists use to describe their research with identical twins. Behavioural genetics seeks to understand both the genetic and environmental contributions to individual variations in human behavior. I will interview and record Professor Terrie Moffitt and her research team at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Professor Moffitt is Professor of Social Behaviour and Development in the Department of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. Professor Moffitt and her team are directly involved with the area of scientific enquiry that is behavioural genetics - and specifically the study of twins and human behaviour. From these recorded interviews/conversations I will make a 15 minute, narrative, portrait based, documentary - style film. The film will also use drawings that have been made by the twins and the researchers, produced in the course of their research. The work will be based on case studies, academic/scientific research and anecdotal experience. This research will manifest itself as a short poetic film, and a series of exhibitions with a companion hardcopy publication.The resulting works will ultimately deal with ideas of the human body, nature, evolution, the location of the human soul and the ability to change people's lives, (if not the world), through science, ideas and belief.Over the past five years my films have become increasingly influenced by the narrative structures found in the works of artists/filmmakers such as: Andy Warhol, Ondi Timoner, Chris Smith and Sarah Price, Sarah Tripp and Penelope Spheris. All of these artist/filmmakers have made work through the use of single camera and single microphone recording techniques. These works also all deal in some form of documentary and/or portraiture and that is where the core of their inspiration lies for me. I have been studying the recording styles of these artists while developing my own distinct style through the exploration of digital video editing, animation and software manipulation techniques. My recent exhibition, 'don't stop 'til you get enough', at Matt's Gallery London, April / June 2005, consisted of five, single-screen, portrait based video works. All of these works manifest the idea that narrative and structured storytelling can become the primary source for content within contemporary art videos. These works all contest the conventional idea that contemporary art based videos are ambient in nature, and seemingly without the recognized structure of a beginning, middle and end. The works included in, 'don't stop 'til you get enough', all required the audience to focus their attention for a concentrated period of time. Although they were exhibited together as a group, each work had its own distinct and strong identity. This was achieved not only through the different qualities and subject matter within each work, but also through the different ways in which the works were installed. I intend to continue this model of exhibiting a selection of works together but in different manners of actual installation. The films exist autonomously and completely, but within this context they also work as an accumulative effect towards an exhibition experience. I will continue to explore the exhibition of single screen works in the manner of 'Nature's Great Experiment'. Universally, the works are documentary-based portraits, constructed from both found and originally generated materials.

这个项目的标题是“大自然的伟大实验”，指的是科学家和行为遗传学家用来描述他们对同卵双胞胎的研究的短语。行为遗传学旨在了解遗传和环境对人类行为个体差异的贡献。我将采访并记录伦敦国王学院精神病学研究所的Terrie Moffitt教授和她的研究团队。莫菲特教授是精神病学研究所社会、遗传和发展精神病学系的社会行为和发展教授。莫菲特教授和她的团队直接参与了行为遗传学的科学研究领域，特别是对双胞胎和人类行为的研究。从这些记录的采访/对话中，我将制作一部15分钟的、叙事的、基于肖像的、纪录片风格的电影。这部电影还将使用双胞胎和研究人员在研究过程中制作的图纸。这项工作将以个案研究、学术/科学研究和轶事经验为基础。这项研究将表现为一个简短的诗歌电影，和一系列的展览与配套的硬拷贝出版物。由此产生的作品将最终处理人体，自然，进化，人类灵魂的位置和改变人们生活的能力的想法，（如果不是世界），通过科学，在过去的五年里，我的电影越来越多地受到艺术家/电影制作人作品中的叙事结构的影响，例如：安迪·沃霍尔，昂迪·蒂莫纳，克里斯·史密斯和莎拉·普莱斯，莎拉·特里普和佩内洛普·斯菲利斯。所有这些艺术家/电影制作人都通过使用单摄像机和单麦克风录音技术来制作作品。这些作品也都涉及某种形式的纪录片和/或肖像画，这就是我灵感的核心所在。我一直在研究这些艺术家的录制风格，同时通过探索数字视频编辑、动画和软件开发自己独特的风格操纵技术。我最近的展览，“不要停止”，直到你得到足够的“，在马特的画廊伦敦，2005年4月/6月，包括五个，单屏幕，肖像为基础的视频作品。所有这些作品都表明，叙事和结构化的故事讲述可以成为当代艺术视频内容的主要来源。这些作品都挑战了传统的观念，即当代艺术的视频在本质上是环境的，似乎没有公认的开始，中间和结束的结构。《欲罢不能》中的作品，都是需要观众集中注意力的。虽然他们作为一个群体一起展出，但每件作品都有自己独特而强烈的身份。这不仅是通过每件作品的不同品质和主题来实现的，而且还通过作品安装的不同方式来实现。我打算继续这种模式，展示一个选择的作品在一起，但在不同的方式实际安装。这些电影独立而完整地存在着，但在这种背景下，它们也作为一种累积效应，走向一种展览体验。我将继续以“大自然的伟大实验”的方式探索单屏作品的展览。一般来说，这些作品都是基于纪录片的肖像，由发现和最初生成的材料构成。