Feature - an alternative Western set in the Cambridgeshire countryside

特色——剑桥郡乡村的另类西部场景

• 批准号: AH/G000050/1
• 负责人: Shezad Dawood
• 金额: $ 2.09万
• 依托单位: University of Westminster
• 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%2FG000050%2F1
• 关键词: Feature; alternative; Western; set; Cambridgeshire

Feature is an interdisciplinary undertaking operating between the practices of live event and cinema. The live event involved staging performances towards an alternative Western in the Cambridgeshire countryside which in turn involved well known artists and musicians alongside local performers and residents taking a range of roles within the film.The performance mixed historical and fictional tropes, drawing on the legacy of avant-garde theatre: Beckett, Brecht and Thomas Bernhard in particular. By employing artists and non-professional actors the aim was to further my research of notions of acting and improvisation, already explored in a number of performance works realised to date, into the realm of cinematic representation: exploring the translation of these live events to film.The editing process is what underpins the live event as it becomes pivotal to the fictionalisation or actuality of the live event and is what focuses the film in terms of how it finally looks/is viewed and contextualised. The editing process will explore the gap between live performance and cinematic representation and provide me with the means to question and explore how one might articulate this gap. The simple but overriding logic of the title of the project Feature explores the idea of duration that is pivotal to both live art and film and I am interested in how the operation of time between these two very different spheres might allow them to be aware of one another. The film editing process will allow me to address research questions that will be further carried through the editing of the book, the touring exhibition and the public events, and will reveal the ethical problems of the suppression of truth / how much the live event is able to manifest through the film or not. What choices will I make in the process of editing that will negate my intentions to reveal live event? The edit is the process of addressing the research questions based on the choices made. The ethical answers to the questions posed will be explored in the space that allows for the manipulation of truth, therefore the grounds for the edit become fundamental, revealing through the process some of the questions posed.Feature will result in a stand-alone film, a book and a touring exhibition with accompanying public events. By setting out parameters for the performance as a document to be filmed at a professional standard I intend the film to exist as a stand-alone work in its own right. For example, Cambridge Film Festival has requested screening the film. The touring exhibition, which will include various artefacts and documentation from the project so as to look at the idea of artistic process as continuous text, has three confirmed partners: Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; East Side Projects, Birmingham and Leeds Met Gallery (as part of Leeds Metropolitan University). I will also edit a publication which will continue the life of the project, providing an opportunity to further expand upon the editing process as a means for unpicking the process of translating the live event to film. In the spirit of continuous text, I will be working with author Sebastian Roach and three artists who played roles within the film and will give different perspectives and readings. In this way I hope to present a rigorous and critical inquiry through every aspect of the performance and filmmaking process, which builds on my research and use of various media for my ongoing examination of cultural media and translation, evidenced by a series of high-profile projects and outcomes. The book will be published by Bookworks who will oversee and fund production of the book, and designed by Abake, who I have worked with previously.A series of public events will accompany the tour continuing the editing of the project out into the public realm and further unpicking the editing process and research questions that sit at the heart of the project.

特辑是一项跨学科的事业，在现场活动和电影之间运作。现场活动包括在剑桥郡的乡村为另一种西部片进行表演，著名艺术家和音乐家与当地表演者和居民一起在电影中扮演一系列角色。演出混合了历史和虚构的比喻，借鉴了前卫戏剧的遗产，特别是贝克特、布莱希特和托马斯·伯恩哈德。通过聘请艺术家和非专业演员，我的目的是进一步研究表演和即兴创作的概念，这些概念已经在一些迄今为止已经实现的表演作品中得到了探索，进入电影表现领域：探索这些现场事件到电影的翻译。剪辑过程是现场事件的基础，因为它对现场事件的虚构或现实性至关重要，并且是电影最终看起来/被观看和背景化的重点。编辑过程将探索现场表演和电影表现之间的差距，并为我提供质疑和探索如何阐明这种差距的手段。这个项目的标题简单但重要的逻辑是探索对现场艺术和电影都至关重要的持续时间的概念，我对这两个截然不同的领域之间的时间运作如何让它们相互意识到对方很感兴趣。电影剪辑过程将使我能够解决研究问题，这些问题将通过书籍的编辑，巡回展览和公共活动进一步进行，并将揭示压制真相的伦理问题/现场事件能够通过电影体现多少。在编辑过程中，我将做出哪些选择，从而否定我展示现场事件的意图？编辑是在选择的基础上解决研究问题的过程。对所提出的问题的道德答案将在允许操纵真相的空间中进行探索，因此编辑的理由成为根本，通过过程揭示所提出的一些问题。这一特点将导致一部独立的电影、一本书和一个巡回展览，并伴随公众活动。通过将表演的参数设定为以专业标准拍摄的文件，我打算将这部电影作为独立的作品存在。例如，剑桥电影节要求放映这部电影。这次巡回展览将包括该项目的各种文物和文献，以观察艺术过程作为连续文本的想法，有三个确定的合作伙伴：曼彻斯特的卡斯尔菲尔德画廊；东区项目，伯明翰和利兹大都会画廊（作为利兹城市大学的一部分）。我还将编辑一份出版物，它将延续这个项目的生命，为进一步扩展编辑过程提供机会，作为一种将现场事件翻译成电影的过程分解的手段。本着连续文本的精神，我将与作家塞巴斯蒂安·罗奇和三位在电影中扮演角色的艺术家合作，并将提供不同的视角和解读。通过这种方式，我希望通过表演和电影制作过程的各个方面进行严谨和批判性的探究，这建立在我对各种媒体的研究和使用之上，以进行我对文化媒体和翻译的持续研究，并通过一系列备受瞩目的项目和成果来证明。这本书将由Bookworks出版，它将监督和资助这本书的制作，并由我以前合作过的Abake设计。一系列的公共活动将伴随这次旅行，继续项目的编辑进入公共领域，并进一步分解编辑过程和研究问题，这些问题是项目的核心。