Normative Divisions and New Exclusions: Aesthetic Territorialism in Contemporary Art

规范划分与新的排除：当代艺术中的审美领域主义

• 批准号: AH/F01743X/1
• 负责人: Amanda Beech
• 金额: $ 2.07万
• 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: 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%2FF01743X%2F1
• 关键词: Normative; Divisions; New; Exclusions; Aesthetic

This project seeks to produce a new single channel video artwork that explores how the ordering and regulation of communal space in contemporary western democracy is connected to a liberalist poltics of individuation. Through examining the historical conditions of philosophical theory, cultural literature and the architecture of social space that have priveleged 'a culture of critique', or 'a culture of difference', as a means to resist or comment on the problems of institutional power, the work aims to raise questions regarding if and how this politics of culture aids and abets structures of authority, or if it makes them less stable now. The artwork will be filmed on location in Los Angeles, completed on my return to London and exhibited in association with MOT International Gallery, London at the culmination of the project.The research takes as its primary context, Los Angeles, USA. The social and cultural geography of Los Angeles is the example, par excellence of how the liberalist principle of individuality orders social systems, evidenced in the boundary demarcation of social space and gated communities. Conducting research in Los Angeles I aim to examine the architecture and theory of a historic 'exile modernism', a term attributed to the post-war German community of writers and philosophers including Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno who settled in Los Angeles in the 1940's. I seek to test to what extent their philosophy of resistance and withdrawal from the culture of Los Angeles is coterminous with a politics of security and protection seen in Los Angeles planning, architecture and social housing today. The research will involve a 10 day exploratory visit to Los Angeles to conduct theoretical research and practical preparatory work including:a) Researching, visiting and documenting the architecture from and associated with 'exile modernism' / the houses of Brecht, Thomas Mann and Theodor Adornob) Confirm times and venues for future filmingc) Work on location and to arrange preparatory shots, lighting of interior/exteriors and day/night work and the developments of the style of the video.d) Study historical documentation and aesthetic representations of Los Angeles architecture by working with the Julius Shulman archive at the Getty Institute, Los Angelese) Confirm technical equipment available in Los Angeles for the shoote) Meet with researchers and gallerists to discuss the projectAfter this visit I will spend time developing the work in the UK and prepare for a return trip to Los Angeles to film the piece, following which the work will be edited, scored and completed.Central to this research is a questioning of how art participates in reconfiguring what is understood to be our 'commonality', how this squares with our conception of a critical art practice and how (and if) art is capable of producing new agreements that transform and dissent from those that are considered to be established and institutional. This project seeks to examine the possibilities for these claims, whilst recognising that they hold within them a problematic idealization of arts' political power. In order to do this, my research makes connections between the culture of difference as a norm through the work of exile modernists, how it is present now, within the artworld, and how it is also evidenced in this culture of boundaried communal space. Together they share the problem of creating private pseudo-democracies that limit their potential to reconfiguring what politics is and means to us. This research project seeks to explore how these private territories produce ideological narratives and how these mythologies are literally manifest in literature, social space and art objects within the public domain. In producing new work on this theme I ask if, and how, images of community seen in art, philosophy and social space are capable of establishing new territories in the political field.

这个项目试图制作一个新的单频道视频艺术作品，探索当代西方民主国家公共空间的秩序和监管如何与自由主义的个人化政治联系在一起。通过考察哲学理论、文化文学和社会空间结构的历史条件，这些历史条件曾被尊为“批判文化”或“差异文化”，作为抵抗或评论制度权力问题的手段，这部作品的目的是提出这样的问题：这种文化政治是否以及如何帮助和教唆权威结构，或者它是否会使权力结构现在变得不那么稳定。这些艺术品将在洛杉矶拍摄，在我回到伦敦后完成，并在项目达到顶峰时与伦敦MOT国际画廊联合展出。研究以美国洛杉矶为主要背景。洛杉矶的社会和文化地理是个人主义原则如何安排社会制度的典范，在社会空间和封闭式社区的边界划分中得到了证明。在洛杉矶进行研究时，我的目标是考察具有历史意义的“流亡现代主义”的建筑和理论，这个术语源于战后德国作家和哲学家团体，包括托马斯·曼、贝尔托尔特·布莱希特和西奥多·阿多诺，他们于1940年的“S”时期定居洛杉矶。我试图测试他们抵抗和退出洛杉矶文化的哲学在多大程度上与如今洛杉矶规划、建筑和社会住房中所看到的安全和保护政治是一致的。这项研究将包括对洛杉矶进行为期10天的探索性访问，以进行理论研究和实际准备工作，包括：a)研究、参观和记录来自流亡现代主义/布莱希特、托马斯·曼和西奥多·阿多尔诺布的建筑及其相关建筑)确定未来拍摄的时间和地点)地点工作，并安排准备拍摄、室内/室外照明、白天/夜间工作和视频风格的发展。d)通过与盖蒂研究所的朱利叶斯·舒尔曼档案合作，研究洛杉矶建筑的历史记录和美学表现，洛杉矶人)确认洛杉矶可用于拍摄的技术设备)与研究人员和画廊老板会面，讨论该项目这次访问后，我将花时间在英国开发这件作品，并准备返回洛杉矶拍摄这件作品，随后将对作品进行编辑、评分和完成。这项研究的核心是质疑艺术如何参与重新配置被理解为我们的“共性”，这与我们对批判性艺术实践的概念如何相符，以及艺术如何(以及是否)能够产生新的协议，这些协议改变和不同于那些被认为是既定和制度化的协议。这个项目试图考察这些主张的可能性，同时认识到它们包含着对艺术政治权力的有问题的理想化。为了做到这一点，我的研究通过流亡的现代主义者的工作，将差异文化作为一种规范，它是如何呈现在艺术世界中的，以及它如何在这种有边界的公共空间文化中得到证明之间的联系。他们共同面临着创造私人伪民主的问题，这限制了他们重新配置政治对我们的意义和意义的潜力。这个研究项目试图探索这些私人领域如何产生意识形态叙事，以及这些神话如何在公共领域内的文学、社会空间和艺术对象中真实地表现出来。在创作关于这一主题的新作品时，我问道，在艺术、哲学和社会空间中看到的社区形象是否能够以及如何在政治领域建立新的领域。