Tate Encounters: Black and Asian Identities, Britishness and Visual Culture

泰特美术馆邂逅：黑人和亚洲人的身份、英国性和视觉文化

• 批准号: AH/E508774/1
• 负责人: Andrew Dewdeny
• 金额: $ 63.1万
• 依托单位: London South Bank University
• 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%2FE508774%2F1
• 关键词: Tate; Encounters; Black; Asian; Identities

The proposal is for interdisciplinary research collaboration between Tate Britain (which holds the National Collection of British Art), London South Bank University (the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute and within it the Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group, with a reputation in the area of family studies, diasporas and migration) and Wimbledon School of Art/University of the Arts, (which brings together fine art practice and visual cultural studies). The project will produce in-depth case studies of how fifty London migrant families, primarily from the African/Caribbean and Asian diasporas, encounter Tate Britain and the National Collection of British Art over a three year period. The project will recruit family participation through first year undergraduate students at LSBU, who are the first generation of their family to attend higher education in the UK. LSBU has one of the highest intakes of ethnically diverse students in the UK. The research programme will investigate whether generation and gender are significant factors in the Tate encounter. The resulting body of material developed by the families and the researchers will form the basis for three inter-related evaluations and analysis of; visual culture and narratives of British-ness; Cultural diversity policy and museums; and models of participant museum education practice. Research Context The research problematic draws on the growing recognition that advocacy for greater cultural diversity within the life of museums has been policy led with the consequence that museums have responded with strategies and programmes which lack the benefit of an evidential knowledge base of how people of migrant and diasporic backgrounds value and interact with national museums and collections. Policy led initiatives based upon how 'social capital' functions to exclude sections of society from participation in culture have led to museum educational practice centred on outreach projects aimed at establishing links with traditionally excluded groups. Critical curatorial practice has simultaneously engaged with theoretical perspectives drawn from post-colonial and visual cultural theory which foreground diasporic cultural histories and experience. Neither approach has led to any significant increase in audience engagement for diverse audiences. In such a situation the absence of evidence based study from which to test policy and practice approaches needs to be addressed. Aims and Objectives The project aims to provide an in-depth account of the reciprocal meanings of a sustained encounter between a diasporic group and an important national cultural site. The project will develop new knowledge and understandings of how narratives of British-ness are contained, constructed and reproduced within the curatorial practices and collection of Tate and of how such notions are received and valued by different migrant and diasporic family members within the context of the active material/visual cultural practices of everyday life. From this encounter the project will develop new curatorial and educational perspectives relevant to wider and more culturally diverse audiences and will contribute towards cultural change within the Museum and Galleries sector. Potential applications and benefits The project will be of direct benefit to curators, museum educators and staff and students of museum studies in providing an analysis of a diasporic and migrant audience's engagement with permanent collections and temporary displays. In providing an evaluation of a practice-led participatory museum education approach it will be of use to museum educators. The final evaluation report will be of direct use to policy makers, opinion formers and stakeholders in the sector when considering future cultural diversity policy and funding initiatives.

该提案旨在泰特英国美术馆（拥有英国国家艺术收藏）、伦敦南岸大学（社会政策和城市再生研究所及其内部的家庭和社会资本 ESRC 研究小组，在家庭研究、侨民和移民领域享有盛誉）和温布尔登艺术学院/艺术大学（汇集了美术实践和视觉文化研究）之间进行跨学科研究合作。该项目将对 50 个伦敦移民家庭（主要来自非洲/加勒比海和亚洲侨民）如何在三年内接触泰特英国美术馆和英国国家艺术收藏馆进行深入的案例研究。该项目将通过LSBU一年级本科生招募家庭参与，他们是家庭中第一代在英国接受高等教育的人。 LSBU 是英国招收多种族学生最多的大学之一。该研究计划将调查世代和性别是否是泰特美术馆遭遇的重要因素。由家庭和研究人员开发的最终材料将构成三个相互关联的评估和分析的基础：视觉文化和英国性叙事；文化多样性政策和博物馆；以及参与者博物馆教育实践的模式。研究背景 研究问题基于人们日益认识到，在博物馆生活中倡导更大的文化多样性是由政策主导的，其结果是博物馆的应对策略和计划缺乏移民和散居背景的人们如何评价国家博物馆和藏品以及如何与国家博物馆和藏品互动的证据知识库的好处。基于“社会资本”如何排除社会阶层参与文化的政策主导举措，导致博物馆教育实践以旨在与传统上被排斥的群体建立联系的外展项目为中心。批判性的策展实践同时涉及从后殖民和视觉文化理论中汲取的理论观点，这些理论观点突出了离散的文化历史和经验。这两种方法都没有显着提高不同受众的受众参与度。在这种情况下，需要解决缺乏基于证据的研究来测试政策和实践方法的问题。目的和目标 该项目旨在深入探讨侨民群体与重要国家文化遗址之间持续相遇的相互意义。该项目将开发新的知识和理解，了解英国性的叙事如何在泰特美术馆的策展实践和收藏中包含、构建和再现，以及不同的移民和散居家庭成员在日常生活中活跃的物质/视觉文化实践的背景下如何接受和重视这些概念。通过这次接触，该项目将开发与更广泛、更多元化的文化受众相关的新策展和教育视角，并将为博物馆和画廊领域的文化变革做出贡献。潜在的应用和好处 该项目将直接惠及策展人、博物馆教育工作者以及博物馆研究的工作人员和学生，因为它可以分析散居国外和移民的观众对永久藏品和临时展览的参与情况。在对以实践为主导的参与式博物馆教育方法进行评估时，它将对博物馆教育者有用。最终评估报告将直接供该部门的政策制定者、舆论形成者和利益相关者在考虑未来的文化多样性政策和资助举措时使用。