Rethinking Research in the Art Museum

该奖学金主要针对泰特美术馆和其他艺术博物馆的两个优先事项：发展以研究为主导的实践和与观众进行更多的合作。我将研究如何从业者主导的共同生产的研究实践可以嵌入到艺术博物馆。人们越来越有兴趣将艺术博物馆塑造成一个由策展人和教育工作者与观众和其他人合作开展以研究为主导的活动的空间，这促使了它的出现。这种兴趣本身是由对艺术博物馆作为文化排他性场所的批评以及博物馆专业人员对如何将其正在进行的活动理解为研究的沮丧所激发的。我的项目通过(1)检查和建立一套不同的现有跨学科文献，这些文献通常不会在画廊环境中使用，来质疑对艺术博物馆研究的公认思维。(2)探究以探索性研究为主导的共建美术馆实践的五个比较案例。它将为实践者研究开发一个特定背景的框架，强调创造力和创新，挑战占主导地位的正统观念和知识等级。该框架将支持博物馆专业人员和研究人员改变艺术博物馆的研究实践。主要产出将是一本关于博物馆内正在采用的新兴研究模式的书。这些模式为设计项目、策划展览、促进观众参与和学习的实践性研究人员提供了代理，他们通过这些活动从事创造新知识和理论的工作。为了实现这一目标，本书将借鉴广泛的多学科文献综述和来自英国、欧洲和美国的五个案例研究，以阐明如何将不同的博物馆实践有效地理解为研究。在为艺术博物馆内的实践者研究建立框架的过程中，本书将探索研究、艺术实践、策展和学习之间的联系，并借鉴与实践相关的理论作为研究和实践者学者。本文将梳理出这些想法与艺术博物馆部门的相关性，反映了采用它们所固有的挑战，但也强调了实施这些理论所告知的方法对个人和机构的好处。该框架将由一组跨学科专家进行测试，并通过研讨会、研究博客、期刊文章和书籍传播给更广泛的博物馆专业人员和研究人员。因此，本书将为博物馆专业人员和研究人员在其机构环境中进行研究提供创新的见解和有用的指导。总的来说，该奖学金将发展我的知识、技能和经验，使我成为画廊从业者研究领域的领导者。

This fellowship addresses two priorities for Tate and art museums generally: developing research-led practice and greater co-production with audiences. I will examine how practitioner-led co-produced research practices can be embedded in art museums. It has been prompted by a growing interest in framing the art museum as a space for research-led activity that is undertaken by curators and educators working collaboratively with audiences and others. This interest has itself been prompted by criticisms of art museums as sites of cultural exclusivity alongside museum professionals' frustration regarding how their ongoing activities can be understood as research. My project interrogates accepted thinking on research in the art museum by (1) examining and building on a diverse set of existing interdisciplinary literatures not normally used in gallery contexts. And (2) interrogating five comparative case studies of exploratory research-led co-constructed art museum practice. It will develop a context specific framework for practitioner research that foregrounds creativity and innovation and challenges dominant orthodoxies and hierarchies of knowledge. The framework will support museum professionals and researchers to bring about change in art museum research practices. The main output will be a book about emerging models of research being adopted within museums. These models give agency to practitioner researchers who devise programmes, curate exhibitions and facilitate audience engagement and learning and who are, through this, engaged in generating new knowledge and theories. To achieve this, the book will draw on an extensive multidisciplinary literature review and five case studies from the UK, Europe and America to illuminate how different museum practices can be productively understood as research. In building a framework for practitioner research within the art museum, the book will explore connections between research, art practice, curation and learning and draw on theories associated with practice as research and the practitioner scholar. The text will tease out the relevance of these ideas for the art museum sector, reflecting on the challenges inherent in adopting them, but also highlighting the benefits to individuals and institutions of implementing approaches informed by these theories. The framework will be tested with a group of interdisciplinary experts and disseminated to a wider group of museum professionals and researchers via seminars, a research blog, journal articles and the book. The book will thus provide innovative insights and useful guidance for museum professionals and researchers carrying out research in their institutional settings. Overall the fellowship will develop my knowledge, skills and experience enabling me to become a leader in the field of practitioner research in galleries.