Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience: Creation, Consumption and Exchange

“映射当代艺术的遗产经验：创造，消费和交换”是一个跨学科的研究项目，将批判性地研究的作用和实践的临时视觉艺术委托内的遗产财产在英国今天，映射当前的景观，并探索这一活动对生产者和观众的影响。它从多个角度探讨这一主题，汇集了学者，艺术家，遗产专业人员，志愿者和游客的知识和经验。艺术委托一直与英国伟大的历史遗产联系在一起。近几十年来，许多遗产组织积极地重新参与当代艺术，投资于此，为公众参与遗产及其历史创造新的机会。包括英格兰艺术理事会在内的艺术组织从战略上支持这项工作，将其作为履行其促进卓越和公共利益的使命的重要手段。对于许多艺术家来说，遗产委托作品在他们的实践中越来越重要。然而，尽管得到了包括国家信托和ACE在内的主要组织的大力支持，但这些项目对制作人和观众的实际影响却知之甚少。同样，对于当代艺术在遗产领域的广泛特征及其委托实践，也缺乏集体的专业理解。作为一种创造性的实践-该项目与英国两个主要遗产合作伙伴合作，为围绕视觉艺术这一重要但研究不足的领域产生新知识做出了强大而独特的贡献。通过案例研究研究，该项目将详细探索当代艺术家如何参与遗产叙事以及这些艺术品如何被接受被游客消费。在进行案例研究的同时，还将制作一个新的在线资源，开发、扩大对此类项目的现有审计并将其数字化，使其作为进一步专业交流的平台向公众开放。在这样做的研究将产生更好地了解英国当代艺术的遗产实践和未来的发展需求。为了实现该项目，来自纽卡斯尔和利兹大学的专家学者和艺术家将与来自领先的艺术遗产组织艺术与遗产的专业策展人一起与ACE，国家信托基金，教堂保护信托基金和当代视觉艺术网络合作。该项目产生的新的理解和见解将在当代艺术和遗产领域传播。这将通过使用为不同目标受众设计的补充渠道来实现：在遗产地公开展出委托制作的艺术品;为在线观众提供项目记录的网站和博客;为艺术和从业者观众举办项目展览，介绍委托制作过程;向我们的项目合作伙伴、战略艺术和遗产组织以及相关政策制定者分发研究报告;面向行业专家和学术界人士的国际会议;会议论文和在学术和专业期刊上发表的文章。作为面向公众的研究，该项目将对从业者，组织和遗产参观者以及在当代艺术和遗产领域工作的其他学者产生特定的好处，包括以创新实践为主导的研究人员。它有能力和潜力在英国和国际遗产实践中激发公众对当代艺术的新兴趣，并为该部门提供急需的新知识，包括其资助者和政策制定者。

'Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience: Creation, Consumption and Exchange' is an interdisciplinary research project that will critically examine the role and practice of temporary visual art commissioning within heritage properties in Britain today, mapping the current landscape and exploring the impact of this activity on its producers and audiences. It approaches this subject from multiple perspectives, bringing together the knowledge and experience of scholars, artists, heritage professionals, volunteers and visitors. Art commissioning has always been linked with Britain's great historic properties. Recent decades have seen many heritage organisations vigorously re-engaging with contemporary art, investing in this as a way of developing new opportunities for public engagement with heritage properties and their histories. Arts organisations including Arts Council England (ACE) strategically support this work, promoting it as a significant means of fulfilling their mission to promote excellence and public benefit. For many artists commissioned work for heritage properties is an increasingly important strand within their practice.However, and despite strong support from major organisations including the National Trust and ACE, the actual impact of such projects on their producers and audiences is poorly understood. Similarly there is little collective professional understanding of the broader character of the contemporary arts in heritage field and its commissioning practices. As a creative practice-led collaboration with two major UK heritage partners this project makes a strong and unique contribution to the production of new knowledge around this significant but under researched area of the visual arts.Through case study research centring on the development of new art commissions at four heritage properties the project will explore in detail how contemporary artists engage with heritage narratives and how these artworks are received and consumed by visitors. The case studies will be accompanied by the production of a new online resource that develops, expands and digitises an existing audit of such projects making this publicly available as a platform for further professional exchange. In doing so the research will generate a better understanding of UK contemporary arts in heritage practice and its future development needs. To deliver the project, specialist scholars and artists from Newcastle and Leeds Universities will be joined by a professional curator from the leading art in heritage organisation Art & Heritage to work in partnership with ACE, The National Trust, Churches Conservation Trust and the Contemporary Visual Art Network. The new understandings and insights generated by the project will be disseminated across the contemporary arts and heritage sectors. This will be achieved through the use of complementary channels designed for different target audiences: the public exhibition of the commissioned artworks at the heritage properties; a website and blog that will document the project for an online audience; a project exhibition profiling the commissioning process for the benefit of an arts and practitioner audience; a research report for circulation to our project partners, strategic arts and heritage organisations and relevant policy makers; an international conference aimed at sector specialists and academic audiences; conference papers and published articles in academic and professional journals.As public facing research this project will have specific benefit for practitioners, organisations and heritage visitors as well as for other academics working in the contemporary arts and heritage field, including creative-practice led researchers. It has the capacity and potential to stimulate new public interest in contemporary arts in heritage practice in the UK and internationally as well as providing much needed new knowledge for the sector, including for its funders and policy makers.