Art and Policy in the Global Contemporary: Examining the Role of the Arts in the Production of Public Policy

POLART将通过双重重点来研究艺术与政策之间的关系：调查艺术如何产生“可能相反”的政策知识（Law 2017），以及相反，政策问题如何改变当代艺术的经典和参与形式。我们的出发点是，到目前为止，研究几乎完全集中在科学和测量在政策制定中的作用，而忽略了对艺术如何使现状成问题、质疑常规道路、提供处理社会问题的替代和富有想象力的方法的研究。尽管艺术与政策制定之间的关系尚未得到充分探讨，但艺术一直是政策制定者如何理解、解释和治理社会的重要因素。POLART的大胆承诺是发展跨学科分析，首次系统地研究艺术与政策之间的动态相互关系。通过创新的方法，并在公共政策，科学技术研究和艺术社会学的十字路口，POLART将建立新的“艺术与公共政策”领域的知识基础。研究的一个主要任务-以及该领域-将是解码材料和表演的“混合知识空间”（Law 2017），因为它们出现在艺术和政策世界的交叉点。这些目标如何转化为经验主义？POLART将首先考察主要的国际艺术展览，以探索1989年后艺术与政策问题化之间的关系。其次，我们将研究艺术如何、为什么以及产生什么影响，可以在全球和地方层面动员政策变革。最后，我们将探讨艺术如何塑造国家/地方政策制定者的政治价值观，以实现公平和参与性的治理，以适应21世纪的挑战。

POLART will examine the relationship between art and policy through a double focus: an investigation of how art may produce policy knowledge 'that might be otherwise' (Law 2017) and how, conversely, policy issues have altered the contemporary artistic canon and forms of engagement. Our point of de-parture is that research has so far focused almost exclusively on the role of science and measurement in the production of policy, at the expense of an examination of how art can problematize the status-quo, question well-trodden paths, and offer alternative and imaginative ways of dealing with social problems. Although the relationship between art and policy-making is vastly under-explored, the arts have always been an essential element of how policy makers make sense of, interpret and hence gov-ern societies.POLART's daring promise is to develop interdisciplinary analysis that for the first time investigates the dynamic interrelationship of art and policy systematically. Through innovative methods, and at the crossroads of public policy, science and technology studies and the sociology of art, POLART will set the intellectual foundations of the novel 'Art and Public Policy' field. A major task of the study -and the field - will be the decoding of the material and performative 'hybrid knowing spaces' (Law 2017), as they emerge at the intersections of the art and the policy worlds.How do these aims translate in empirical terms? POLART will initially examine major international art exhibitions, in order to explore the relationship between art and policy problematization post-1989. Second, we will examine how, why and with what effects, the arts can mobilise policy change both at the global and local levels. Finally, we will explore how the arts may shape national/local policy mak-ers' political values towards the production of equitable and participatory governance, fit for the chal-lenges of the 21st century.