Expanded Interiors: Bringing contemporary site-specific fine-art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii.

扩展室内设计是一个跨学科的研究项目，它将特定地点的当代美术实践与联合国教科文组织世界遗产赫库兰尼姆和庞贝的古罗马壁画和建筑遗迹进行了独特的对话。它首次将视觉艺术家卡特琳·胡贝尔（Catrin Huber）的实践主导研究与考古学家、艺术史学家和数字技术专家的学科观点和专业知识结合在一起。该项目与庞贝Soprintendenza和赫库兰尼姆保护项目合作交付。每年仅庞贝就有250万游客，这次合作提供了一个绝佳的机会，将特定地点的美术实践和跨学科考古研究带给广大的国际公众。扩展室内研究插入自己在一套特定的考古探索围绕罗马建筑和室内设计。通过关注壁画，它提出了关于罗马房屋的地点、目的和设计的问题：特别是这些绘画如何协调公共和私人空间，以及它们如何与家中的物体联系起来。虽然这些问题已经被一些学者探讨过，但这是第一次将这些问题与当代特定地点的美术实践结合起来，或者是为了探索新的数字方法来展示露天遗产遗址的考古文物。通过考古和基于美术的调查以及3D数字扫描和打印，Expanded Interiors将在两座罗马房屋（Herculaneum的Casa del Bel Cortile和庞贝的Casa dei Criptoportico）内生成并呈现特定地点的装置。在这样做的过程中，它将在罗马墙壁画家的古代方法和技能与当代美术实践中使用的方法和技能之间建立一座桥梁，为这两个不同的创作世界提供新的见解和理解。我们希望通过扩展室内设计产生的研究成果和产出将引起国际学术界和实践者的兴趣，他们将跨越考古学、当代美术实践、艺术史、博物馆和遗产的界限。我们将通过各种产出和渠道与这些受众接触。在展览期间，将在赫库兰尼姆举行为期两天的大型国际研讨会，向艺术家、环保人士、历史学家、艺术史学家、古典主义者和考古学家等观众开放我们的研究问题和发现。此外，还将出版一份专题印刷出版物，其中包括装置和研究过程的文件，以及一系列新委托撰写的论文。这本书由北方艺术出版社出版，面向国际当代艺术读者。扩展室内设计的研究也将通过项目网站、会议论文以及在当代艺术、考古学、遗产和博物馆研究领域的学术和专业期刊上发表的文章公开传播。这是一个面向公众的研究项目，其益处将远远超出学术界。通过现场装置，它将直接影响到赫库兰尼姆和庞贝的游客，为这两个地点的游客体验提供了一个新的机会。通过尝试新的和创新的方式在现场展示古代建筑和物品，该项目提出了潜在的考古展示新方法，可以在其他遗产遗址和博物馆环境中采用和发展。特别是，它提供了对特定地点艺术作为公众参与考古学平台的可能性的新理解，以及对在露天博物馆展示中创造性地使用3d技术的可行性的新见解。

Expanded Interiors is an interdisciplinary research project that draws site-specific contemporary fine art practice into a unique dialogue with ancient Roman wall paintings and architectural remains at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii. For the first time it brings together the practice-led research of visual artist, Catrin Huber, with the disciplinary perspectives and expertise of archaeologists, art historians, and digital technologists. The project is delivered in partnership with the Soprintendenza Pompei and the Herculaneum Conservation Project. With 2.5 million annual visitors to Pompeii alone, this collaboration offers an amazing opportunity to bring site-specific fine art practice and interdisciplinary archaeological research to a large and international public audience.The Expanded Interiors research inserts itself within a particular set of archaeological explorations around Roman architecture and interiors. By focusing on wall paintings it asks questions about the place, purpose and design of Roman houses: in particular how these paintings negotiated public and private space and how they related to objects within the home. While these questions have been explored by some academics this is the first time such issues have been brought together with contemporary site-specific fine art practice or with the aim of exploring new digital approaches to the display of archaeological artefacts at open air heritage sites. Through archaeological and fine-art based investigation and 3D digital scanning and printing Expanded Interiors will generate and present site-specific installations within two Roman houses, the Casa del Bel Cortile at Herculaneum and the Casa dei Criptoportico at Pompeii. In doing so it will establish a bridge between the ancient methods and skills of the Roman wall painter and those used within contemporary fine art practice, providing new insights and understandings of these two different creative worlds.We expect that the research findings and outputs generated through Expanded Interiors will be of interest to an international academic and practitioner audience that crosses the boundaries of archaeology, contemporary fine art practice, art history, museums and heritage. We will engage with these audiences through a variety of outputs and channels. A major two-day international symposium will be held at Herculaneum, during the exhibition period, which will open up our research questions and findings to an audience of artists, conservationists, historians, art historians, classicists, and archaeologists. A monograph print publication, comprising documentation of the installations and the research process and a series of newly commissioned essays, will also be produced. Published by Art Editions North this book is aimed at an international contemporary arts readership. The Expanded Interiors research will also be publicly disseminated through a project website, and through conference papers and published articles in academic and professional journals within the fields of contemporary art, archaeology, heritage and museums studies.This is a public-facing research project that will have benefit far beyond academia. Through the on-site installations it will impact directly on the visitor audience at Herculaneum and Pompeii providing a novel opportunity to enhance and enliven the visitor experience at these two sites. By experimenting with new and innovative ways of presenting ancient buildings and objects on-site the project suggests potential new approaches to archaeological display that could be taken up and developed at other heritage sites and museum contexts. In particular it offers new understandings of the possibilities of site-specific art as a platform for public engagement with archaeology and new insights into the feasibility of the creative use of 3-D technologies within open-air museum display.