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Ruins of the Twentieth Century

二十世纪的废墟

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F015992/1
负责人：
Brian Dillon
金额：
$ 27.13万
依托单位：
University of Kent
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF015992%2F1
关键词：
Ruins Twentieth Century

项目摘要

Ruins of the Twentieth Century is an investigation and appreciation of places built and abandoned in the last hundred years / most of them in the UK and Ireland, but also further afield. They include derelict factories, outmoded military installations, defunct holiday resorts and neglected Modernist buildings: the kinds of structures that we all know and habitually ignore. These are not romantic ruins, such as are prized by heritage organizations and visited by thousands of people each year. But these unloved sites tell us more, sometimes, than we care to acknowledge about the taste, culture and history of our own recent past. In their decayed state, they remind us of the fragile nature of progress and recall futuristic dreams that are now consigned to the past.My approach to such buildings and places is first of all that of a creative writer, and second that of a cultural historian. Many poets and novelists (from William Wordsworth and John Ruskin to Samuel Beckett and J. G. Ballard) have written about ruins, both ancient and modern. The ruin has been a rich source of metaphors for personal grief, the passing away of civilizations and the melancholy fact of universal decay. I am interested particularly in what happens to writing / to my own writing / when it comes face to face with the remnants of the recent past, which are not so easily consigned to the realm of the picturesque. This project aims to discover a new way of writing about landscape and architecture that will do justice to the strangeness of the ruins of the last century.The writing itself is to a large degree the basis of my research. I will produce a book and essays that mix history and memoir, poetic description and architectural appreciation. My focus throughout will be on how my own skills as a writer can develop in response to the physical reality of the ruins in question. Behind this productive and reflective level, however, two other fields of inquiry will open up. First, I will make extensive field visits to the ruins themselves, and follow those up with archival research and investigations in the surrounding communities. Second, I will need to study the history of ruin appreciation itself, as it has developed in literature, architectural history and the visual arts.This last category is crucial, because for some decades now the ruins of the twentieth century have been an abiding theme for artists: Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Susan Hiller and Tacita Dean have all made works that circle around this subject. To some extent, my project is a way of discovering how the ideas and methods used by these artists, when confronting such places, might inform the work of a creative writer. I intend to widen the scope of my writing and research beyond the literary world to engage with contemporary art and to collaborate, in my own presentation of my chosen ruins, with artists and photographers. The research, in other words, will constantly cross disciplines and question my own expertise, asking what it means to try to describe something as enigmatic and multifaceted as a ruin.The main result of this project will be a book entitled Ruins of the Twentieth Century / a work of 'creative non-fiction' that conjures up the atmosphere of these places, accounts for their dereliction and tries to imagine what future use they might have. I will also write a shorter volume, aimed at a more academic audience, that addresses the philosophical aspects of the subject of ruination. Other offshoots of my research will appear in the form of essays and articles in literary journals, art magazines and newspapers, as well as in the form of talks at museums and galleries. I hope that such publications and events will encourage a wider public debate about what is to be done with the ruins of the twentieth century.

二十世纪世纪的废墟是对过去一百年建造和遗弃的地方的调查和欣赏/其中大部分在英国和爱尔兰，但也有更远的地方。它们包括废弃的工厂，过时的军事设施，废弃的度假胜地和被忽视的现代主义建筑：我们都知道但习惯性忽视的那种结构。这些都不是浪漫的废墟，例如被遗产组织珍视，每年有成千上万的人参观。但这些不受欢迎的网站告诉我们更多，有时，比我们关心承认我们自己最近的过去的味道，文化和历史。在它们腐朽的状态下，它们提醒我们进步的脆弱性，并让我们回想起现在已被交付给过去的未来主义梦想。我对这些建筑和地方的态度首先是一个创造性作家的态度，其次是一个文化历史学家的态度。许多诗人和小说家（从威廉华兹华斯和约翰罗斯金到塞缪尔贝克特和J。巴拉德）写了关于废墟，无论是古代还是现代。这片废墟是个人悲伤、文明消亡和普遍衰败的悲惨事实的丰富隐喻来源。我特别感兴趣的是，当写作/我自己的写作/与最近的过去的残余面对面时会发生什么，这些残余不那么容易被归入风景如画的领域。这个项目的目的是发现一种新的写作方式，来描述上个世纪废墟的奇异之处。写作本身在很大程度上是我研究的基础。我将写一本书和一些文章，其中融合了历史和回忆录、诗意的描述和建筑欣赏。我的重点将贯穿于我自己作为一个作家的技能如何发展，以回应所讨论的废墟的物理现实。然而，在这种富有成效和反思的水平背后，将开辟另外两个研究领域。首先，我将对废墟本身进行广泛的实地考察，并在周边社区进行档案研究和调查。第二，我需要研究废墟鉴赏本身的历史，正如它在文学、建筑史和视觉艺术中的发展一样。最后一个类别至关重要，因为几十年来，20世纪的废墟一直是艺术家们永恒的主题：罗伯特·史密森（Robert Smithson）、戈登·马塔-克拉克（Gordon Matta-Clark）、苏珊·希勒（Susan Hiller）和塔西塔·迪恩（Tacita Dean）都围绕这个主题创作了作品。在某种程度上，我的项目是一种发现这些艺术家在面对这些地方时所使用的想法和方法如何影响创造性作家的作品的方式。我打算扩大我的写作和研究范围，超越文学世界，参与当代艺术，并在我自己的废墟展示中与艺术家和摄影师合作。换句话说，这项研究将不断地跨学科，并质疑我自己的专业知识，问试图描述像废墟这样神秘和多面的东西意味着什么。这个项目的主要成果将是一本名为《二十世纪世纪的废墟》的书/一部“创造性非小说”作品，它会让人想起这些地方的气氛，解释了他们的失职，并试图想象他们未来的用途。我还将写一本较短的书，针对更学术的读者，讨论毁灭这个主题的哲学方面。我的研究的其他分支将以散文和文章的形式出现在文学期刊，艺术杂志和报纸上，以及在博物馆和画廊的讲座形式。我希望这些出版物和活动将鼓励就如何处理二十世纪的废墟进行更广泛的公开辩论。