Weather Station: a research laboratory exploring links between ecology,place and performance on the shoreline of Morecambe Bay.

气象站：一个研究实验室，探索莫克姆湾海岸线上的生态、地点和性能之间的联系。

• 批准号: AH/F016263/1
• 负责人: John Fox
• 金额: $ 27.86万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 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%2FF016263%2F1
• 关键词: Weather; Station; research; laboratory; exploring

Weather Station is a practice-led research experiment in ecological performance. By building a site-specific garden installation, Weather Station, I aim to stimulate an alternative form of ecological consciousness grounded in an aesthetic response to place and landscape. The key idea here is to explore and measure what it means 'to let something be' and to investigate art's role in resisting the increasing exploitation and commodification of the natural environment. Over three years as Weather Station grows and changes, the public, including local residents, will be welcome to pause and consider the site and enjoy its stillness. At Weather Station, diverse forms of site-based performance - storytelling, seasonal processions, gift exchanges and ritual activities - will be designed to stimulate awareness of the unique ecology of the place. The objective here is to use the ecology of the site to produce a human ecology of stories, insights and memories that will hopefully result in what I call a heightened sense of 'place-bound care'.Weather Station sets out to ask three research questions:Does the site heighten the visitor's appreciation of the area's natural environment, or intrude into it? Is it a place of inspiration and pilgrimage, or an aberration? Can aesthetic experience give rise to a new sense of care for the place, or not?In each case, Weather Station aims to challenge perceptions and conventions. Only time and observation will reveal if it is integrative or disruptive, or if it has the capacity to produce enchantment and surprise - key components in the ecological/aesthetic experience it seeks to provoke.In order to monitor how Weather Station affects our experience of being in that landscape it is essential to design methods of measuring responses to the work that fit varied audiences (random and invited) and varied interventions (static and time-based). For example, how will local villagers respond to a gathering for bread baking in a sculptural clay oven? What reaction will young people have when invited to construct a 'field' of temporary miniature weather vanes? Through a process of regular activity followed by feedback and reflection, I hope to use Weather Station to investigate the capacity of site-based art to reveal something that science alone is perhaps unable to do. As a result of this research, it is hoped that Weather Station will become a receptive and significant focus, a nexus where the very notion and practice of ecology is questioned and reassessed through an aesthetic lens.

气象站是一个以实践为主导的生态性能研究实验。通过建造一个特定地点的花园装置，气象站，我的目标是激发一种基于对地点和景观的审美反应的生态意识的替代形式。这里的关键思想是探索和衡量它意味着什么“让东西”，并调查艺术在抵制自然环境的日益剥削和商品化中的作用。在三年多的时间里，随着气象站的发展和变化，公众，包括当地居民，将受到欢迎，停下来考虑这个网站，享受它的宁静。在气象站，将设计多种形式的现场表演--讲故事、季节性游行、礼物交换和仪式活动--以激发人们对该地方独特生态的认识。这里的目标是利用该网站的生态，产生一个故事，见解和记忆，希望能导致我所说的“地方约束照顾”的高度意识的人类生态。气象站着手提出三个研究问题：该网站是否提高了游客对该地区的自然环境的欣赏，或侵入它？它是一个灵感和朝圣的地方，还是一个失常的地方？审美体验能不能产生一种新的对这个地方的关怀？在每一种情况下，气象站的目标是挑战观念和惯例。只有时间和观察才能揭示它是整合性的还是破坏性的，为了监测气象站如何影响我们在该景观中的体验，设计适合不同观众的测量反应的方法至关重要（随机和应邀）和各种干预措施（静态和基于时间）。例如，当地村民会如何回应一个在雕塑般的粘土烤箱里烤面包的聚会？当年轻人被邀请建造一个临时的微型风向标“场”时，他们会有什么反应？通过一个定期活动的过程，然后是反馈和反思，我希望利用气象站来调查基于站点的艺术的能力，以揭示一些科学本身可能无法做到的事情。作为这项研究的结果，人们希望气象站将成为一个接受和重要的焦点，一个关系，生态的概念和实践是质疑和重新评估通过美学透镜。

项目成果

The Oyster Catcher's Tale

牡蛎捕手的故事

• 发表时间: 2010
• 期刊: Journal of Visual Arts Practice
• 作者: Fox J

Weather Station. Critters 2010

气象站。

• 发表时间: 2010
• 作者: Gill S.

Garden in the Sky. Illustrated children's book

空中花园。

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Gill S/Fox J

The Rock in the Sea. Children's story with original woodcuts

海中的岩石。

• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Gill S/Fox J

Rag Tree

布树

• 发表时间: 2010
• 作者: Gill S.