Re-enchantment and Reclamation: New Perceptions of Morecambe Bay through Dance, Film and Sound

概述重塑和开垦是一个为期两年的研究项目，旨在开发舞蹈、电影和声学艺术的方法，以改变不同社区对他们所属地方的看法。具体地说，通过四个讲习班(每个讲习班至少为期一周)和至少八个与国际知名艺术家和哲学家的公开讲座，该项目旨在发现、发展和探索莫克姆贝湾和卢恩河口景观的艺术再魅力和开垦的可能性，并为该地区不同社区和利益集团改变看法和理解做出积极贡献。将特别关注水生、陆地和空中现象的美学和文化意义：海洋、潮汐、河流、海岸线、河口、海湾、天气和光线。这些问题超出了具体举措(新建发电厂、工业、住房、道路等)所带来的问题。以常规和有说服力的方式思考和感知环境特征，即作为一个需要处理的问题或一种可开发的资源。这往往会导致粗心大意、麻木不仁、甚至具有破坏性的关系和发展，具有讽刺意味的是，这些关系和发展忽视了可能对文化和经济复兴至关重要的特征。亲密的感知、幻想、记忆和对地方的热爱，通过这些可以以想象力和同情的方式重新施展和改造一个地区，属于居民和游客的日常体验。然而，它们可以通过质疑幻灭的必然性和工具性的艺术手工艺品和事件来重申、加强和加强。更广泛的意义和好处该项目将展示艺术的实际能力，以独特和重要的方式对关于人类与自然世界关系的更广泛辩论做出贡献。它将提高当地、国家和国际对该地区独特的历史、文化和环境特征及其具体身份的认识，从而制衡其邻国湖区的突出地位。在第二阶段，该项目将集中精力开发公共艺术作品，并将第一阶段开展的实践和理论研究成果带给与该地区未来方向直接相关的社区、利益集团和利益攸关方。在这个阶段，将有机会为规划、旅游和文化发展方面的政策制定提供信息和影响。[注：AHRC将注意到，Nigel Stewart是本申请和连锁项目的指定首席调查员，他已于2005年11月根据研究补助金计划向AHRC提出申请。虽然这两个项目会有几个月的重叠，但需要注意的是：虽然Nigel Stewart是链接项目的唯一调查员，但他是由四人组成的团队中的一员，他们负责重新施魔法和回收，以及他将主要负责的研讨会(见支持案例)，直到链接项目完成后才会开始。出于这个原因，也因为重施魔法和复垦有不同的目的，而且规模较小，LICA很高兴为这个申请的目的认可Nigel Stewart作为这个项目的PI。

OverviewRe-enchantment and Reclamation is a two-year research project which aims to develop methods in dance, film, and the sonic arts for transforming the perceptions that different communities have of the place to which they belong. Specifically, through four workshops (each at least a week long) and at least eight public lectures with artists and philosophers of international distinction, the project aims to discover, develop and explore possibilities for the artistic re-enchantment and reclamation of the landscape of Morecambe Bay and the Lune Estuary, and to contribute positively to the changing perceptions and understandings of the area's different communities and interest groups. Particular attention will be given to the aesthetic and cultural significance of aquatic, terrestrial and aeriel phenomena: sea, tides, rivers, shoreline, estuary, bay, weather and light.ContextThere is widespread concern about our current relationship with the natural environment. The problems go beyond those posed by specific initiatives (new power plants, industries, housing, roads etc.) to the routine and persuasive ways in which environmental features are thought about and perceived, that is, as a problem to be dealt with or an exploitable resource. All too often this leads to careless, insensitive, even damaging relationships and developments, which ironically neglect the very features that may be vital to cultural and economic regeneration. Intimate perception, reverie, memory, and love of place, through which an area might be imaginatively and sympathetically re-enchanted and reclaimed, belong to the everyday experiences of residents and visitors alike. However, they can be reaffirmed, strengthened and enhanced by artistic artefacts and events that question the inevitability of dienchantment and instrumentally.Wider significance and benefitsThe project will demonstrate the practical capacity of art to contribute in ways that are distinctive and significant to wider debates about the relationship between human beings and the natural world. It will raise local, national and international awareness of the unique historical, cultural and environmental features of the area, and of its specific identity, thus acting as a counterbalance to the prominence of its neighbour the Lake District. In its second phase, the project will concentrate on developing public art works, and in taking the results of the practical and theoratical research undertaken in its first phase to communities, interest groups and stakeholders who are all directly concerned with the area's future direction. There will at this stage be an opportunity to inform and influence policy formation in planning, tourism, and cultural development.[N.B. The AHRC will notice that Nigel Stewart is the nominated Principal Investigator of both this application and The Chaining Project, for which he has applied to the AHRC under the Research Grant Scheme in November 2005. Although both projects would overlap by a few months, the following should be noted: whilst Nigel Stewart is the sole investigator of The Chaining Project, he is one of a team of four co-investigators for Re-enchantment and Reclamation, and 'Water Log', the workshop for which he will have prime responsibility (see Case for Support) will not commence until The Chaining Project is complete. For this reason, and because Re-enchantment and Reclamation has a different purpose and is on a smaller scale, LICA is happy to endorse Nigel Stewart as the PI of this project for the purpose of this application.