Working with social haunting: past- and present-making in two "communities of value"

我们的项目探讨了现在是如何“困扰”的过去在两个“社区的价值”与长期的，有时动荡的历史：曼彻斯特的合作学院和相关的罗奇代尔先锋博物馆，以及南约克郡社区分支的工会联合，经营出全国矿工工会（NUM）在巴恩斯利。这些社区有着相似的相互关系和集体主义价值观，并对其历史身份有着敏锐的认识。然而，他们的方法有很大的不同：一个是面向公众的遗址，而另一个是一个明显政治化的活动家社区。根据社会学家艾弗里·戈登（Avery Gordon）的说法，社会困扰是对过去社会暴力的提醒和遗产。它是一种感觉、一种感觉、一种思维方式、一种弥漫在社区内部的氛围，以无数种可能未被注意到的方式影响着社区的未来。我们的研究将从艺术和人文的角度探索这一概念，揭示建筑，文物，景观，声音，诗歌和图形叙事在回顾“几乎不可见”的历史经验和探索社区价值观的变化性质的作用。在这个项目中，我们将与我们的两个案例研究社区合作，建立两个“[Ghost] Co-Lab”。这些项目长期合作制作空间将汇集项目团队成员，我们的艺术合作者和社区合作伙伴成员，共同设计一个分阶段发展的活动计划。这些将涉及一个调查阶段，参与者在遗产研究专家的带领下进行多方面的历史研究，以及一个创造性阶段，他们利用从这些探索中获得的见解来创造基于艺术的输出。这些产出将包括三个集体制作的以艺术为基础的社区成果：一个以“拼贴纪录片”和广播艺术形式混合编排的一小时社区广播节目;一个小型讲习班诗歌档案;一个小型连环漫画视觉档案。通过这一过程，我们的目标是协调到过去经常有争议的，有时几乎看不到的过程-现在正在形成的方式，其中社区生活正在生活，因为我们的合作伙伴组织和社区在面对新的社会挑战时重塑和更新自己。

Our project examines how the present is 'haunted' by the past in two 'communities of value' with long and sometimes tumultuous histories: the Manchester-based Co-operative College and associated Rochdale Pioneers Museum, and the South Yorkshire community branch of the trade union Unite which operates out of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in Barnsley. The communities share similar values of mutuality and collectivism and have a keen awareness of their historical identities. However their approaches vary markedly: one is a public-facing heritage site, while the other is a much more obviously politicised activist community.According to the sociologist Avery Gordon, a social haunting is a reminder and legacy of past social violence. It is a sense, a feeling, a way of thinking, an atmosphere that pervades within a community, influencing its future in myriad, perhaps unnoticed, ways. Our research will explore this concept from an Arts and Humanities perspective, shedding light on the role of architecture, artefacts, landscapes, sounds, poetry and graphic narrative in recalling 'barely visible' historical experiences and exploring the changing nature of community values. In this project we will, in partnership with our two case study communities, establish two '[Ghost] Co-Labs'. These project-long co-production spaces will bring together members of the project team, our arts collaborators, and community partner members to codesign a programme of activities that develop through phases. These will involve an investigative phase in which participants engage in multi faceted historical research led by an expert in heritage studies and a creative phase in which they use insights gained from these explorations to create arts-based outputs. These outputs will include three collectively-produced arts-based community outcomes: a one hour community radio broadcast formatted in mixed 'collage documentary' and radio art form; a small archive of workshop poetry; a small visual archive of comic strips. Through this process, we aim to attune to the often contested and sometimes barely visible processes of past- and present making that is forming ways in which communal lives are being lived as both our partner organisations and communities reshape and renew themselves in the face of new social challenges.