Staging Justice: Documenting Histories and Investigating Interdisciplinarity in the work of Rideout

Rideout （Creative Arts for Rehabilitation）成立于1999年，是英国在刑事司法系统中提供艺术干预的领先组织。他们独特的跨学科方法，不断发展的实践模式，以及持续参与公众对司法系统的理解，对Rideout实践的批判性审查在表演研究和犯罪学方面受到限制。它们在英国监狱艺术景观中的重要性为一系列创造性的公众参与活动和创新的研究方法提供了空间。该奖学金将在公司成立25周年前后的24个月内进行，并批判性地参与Rideout的工作，特别关注他们的跨学科创作实践，围绕正义的公众对话的挑衅，以及在更广泛的艺术和刑事司法从业者网络中的历史意义。除了与公司的具体接触之外，这项研究将重新调整研究和实践议程，将重点放在跨学科的政治和美学价值上，这是Rideout工作的一个独特方面，认为这是一种富有成效且未充分利用的策略，可以批判性地和艺术地探索监狱场所和监禁经历的复杂性。专注于跨学科，这个以戏剧为基础的项目将促进与音乐、舞蹈和神经科学领域的学者和实践者的合作，探索这些不同的工作模式和批判性观点（当与表演一起进行时）如何在监狱戏剧领域内外开辟对监禁的新理解。最后，这项研究将调查监狱剧院组织工作的复杂性，并提出具体的方法，目前人们对英国老牌艺术和刑事司法公司的历史越来越感兴趣。该项目将提出以下问题：1)在过去的25年里，Rideout创意改造艺术如何促进和塑造监狱艺术实践、公众对司法的理解和英国的政策改革？2)利用跨学科的方法，让监狱里的人参与艺术项目，可以产生哪些关于监狱场所和监禁的新知识？3)档案实践可以提供哪些策略来捕捉监狱戏剧实践的短暂本质？如何支持当代艺术和刑事司法从业者参与这一领域的新兴历史？该项目将部署几种方法学方法，并交付各种协作活动。对Rideout团队、董事会成员、曾与该公司合作过的艺术家和参与者，以及其他从事艺术和刑事司法工作的从业者的采访，将创造出Rideout的口述历史。与布里斯托尔剧院收藏的合作将创建一个可公开访问的公司工作档案，该档案将用于本研究。与Rideout合作，将在合作监狱协调三个跨学科的创意驻留项目，以探索跨学科方法如何在他们的工作中发挥作用。这些驻地将被记录在民族志上，以便批判性地质疑这种创造性实践模式。最后，将采取实践即研究的方法，与Rideout合作，为有监狱经历的人开展一系列研究信息戏剧研讨会，探索和戏剧化米歇尔·福柯关于正义和监禁的基础文本，《纪律与惩罚》。Rideout广泛的工作和相对较长的历史为Bartley提供了重要的机会，以提高她在特定研究实践（口述历史和档案，实践作为研究，民族志）方面的能力，这些研究实践在艺术和刑事司法环境中越来越受到关注。

Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) established in 1999, is a leading organisation delivering arts interventions in the criminal justice system in the UK. Unique in their interdisciplinary approaches, continually evolving models of practice, and sustained engagement with public understandings of the justice system, critical examinations of Rideout's practice are limited in performance studies and criminology. Their significance within the UK prison arts landscape offers scope for a series of creative public engagement activities and innovative research methodologies. This fellowship will take place over 24 months around the company's 25th year and critically engage with Rideout's body of work, paying specific attention to their interdisciplinary creative practice, provocation of public conversations around justice, and historical significance within the wider network of arts and criminal justice practitioners. Beyond a specific engagement with the company, this research will reorient research and practice agendas to focus on the political and aesthetic value of interdisciplinarity, a distinctive aspect of Rideout's work, arguing that this is a productive and under-utilised strategy to both critically and artistically explore the complexities of prison sites and experiences of incarceration. In focusing on interdisciplinarity, this theatre based project will foster collaborations with scholars and practitioners in music, dance, and neuroscience to explore how these different modes of work and critical perspectives (when held alongside performance) might open up new understandings of incarceration both within and beyond the field of prison theatre. Finally, the research will investigate the complexities of, and propose specific approaches to, archiving the work of prison theatre organisations at a time when there is a growing interest in the histories of established arts and criminal justice companies in the UK.This project will ask 1) How has the work of Rideout Creative Arts for Rehabilitation contributed to and shaped prison arts practices, public understandings of justice, and policy reform in the UK over the past 25 years?; 2) What new knowledges of carceral sites and understandings of incarceration can be produced from utilising an interdisciplinary approach in arts projects that engage people in prison?; 3) What strategies can archival practice offer to capture the acutely ephemeral nature of prison theatre practices and how might contemporary arts and criminal justice practitioners be supported to engage with the emergent histories of this field?The project will deploy several methodological approaches and deliver various collaborative activities. Interviews with the Rideout team, board members, artists and participants who have worked with the company, and other practitioners working in arts and criminal justice will create an oral history of Rideout. Collaboration with Bristol Theatre Collection will create a publicly accessible archive of the company's work which will be drawn on for this research. Three interdisciplinary Creative Residencies will be coordinated in collaboration with Rideout at partner prisons to explore how interdisciplinary approaches operate in their work. These residencies will be documented ethnographically in order to critically interrogate this model of creative practice. Finally, a practice-as-research approach will be taken to conduct a series of research-informed theatre workshops, delivered in collaboration with Rideout, for people with experience of prison to explore and dramatise Michel Foucault's foundational text on justice and imprisonment, Discipline and Punish.Rideout's extensive body of work and relatively long history provide significant opportunities for Bartley to enhance her capabilities in specific research practices (oral history and archival, Practice-as-Research, ethnography) that are gaining traction within arts and criminal justice settings.