Grid, Net, Snare, Screen: Translating Multispecies Worlds through Artist Moving Image

沉浸在人类/动物视角的星座中，这项研究将利用我在农村社区长大的经历，结合多年的实践艺术家工作。它将为多物种世界创造新的视听表现形式，在一个日益不确定的世界中解决人类与其他生命形式关系的紧迫问题。我的跨学科艺术实践结合了理论、想象和实证研究，使用绘画、电影制作、装置和表演等工具。它审视并重新配置人类与动物的互动，调动各种知识体系——从狩猎实践到动物辅助治疗和研究。通过三件主要的艺术作品和一篇论文，我将专注于物种间翻译的伦理困境，并询问这些交流如何在艺术作品中得到调解。我将在屏幕的几何范围内翻译多物种的感官世界，设计独特的拍摄和呈现模式。这项研究将在展览、放映和专题讨论会中分发，旨在为观众提供新的视角。2012年，我在斯莱德艺术学院读硕士期间开始探索人与动物之间的交流。在过去的8年里，作为一名专业艺术家，我在国际上举办过展览、驻留和委托，通过这些活动，我的实践越来越多地基于研究，涉及到不同的社区和背景。获得艺术委员会资助，与蒙古牧民合作，参加“蒙古大地艺术双年展”（2015）。在《Residency 108》（美国）中，我制作了《Lure》（2017），记录了美国选举日的一次猎鹿活动。2018年，Groundworks委托我拍摄电影《吞噬天空》（Eating Up the Sky），为此我与牛津大学的科学家和一位专业训鹰人合作。它探索了环境如何塑造身体，通过鹰、猎鹰和无人机之间的互动来诠释米尔顿凯恩斯的建筑。博士研究将发展我的实践，扩大其影响，建立跨学科网络，拥抱新技术，促进与电影主题和景观的深入、长期合作。它将通过创新定制的拍摄方法和特定物种的相机工具，通过选定的视野和色彩，将拍摄行为的概念扩展到捕食和视觉捕捉。它将挑战以人类为中心的表现，在屏幕的几何范围内翻译多物种世界。这个项目将建立在我提议的监督团队对想象的生态未来，相机作为研究工具，以及超越人类的地理学的研究基础上，通过关注物种话语，电影伦理和生态学。它将对其他物种的感知世界产生新的审美视角，进一步提高我们作为人类-动物的知识和社会文化意识。

Immersed within a constellation of human/animal perspectives, this research will harness my experiences growing up in rural communities, combined with years working as a practicing artist. It will create new audio-visual representations of multispecies worlds, tackling pressing issues about our relationship with other lifeforms in an increasingly uncertain world.My interdisciplinary art practice incorporates theoretical, imaginative and empirical research, using tools of drawing, filmmaking, installation and performance. It examines and reconfigures human-animal interactions, mobilizing diverse knowledge systems-from hunting practices, to animal-assisted therapy and research.Through three main artworks and a thesis, I will focus on ethical dilemmas bound in interspecies translation, asking how these exchanges are mediated in artworks. I will translate multispecies sensorial worlds within geometric confines of the screen, devising unique modes of filming and presentation. The research will be distributed in exhibitions, screenings and symposia intended to produce new perspectives for audiences.I began to explore human-animal communication in my Master's studies at the Slade School of Art (2012). In the past 8 years working as a professional artist, I have had exhibitions, residencies and commissions internationally, through which my practice has become increasingly based in research, involving engagement with diverse communities and contexts. I received an Arts Council Grant to collaborate with Mongolian Herdsmen, exhibiting in 'Land Art Mongolia Biennial' (2015). In 'Residency 108', USA, I made 'Lure' (2017) involving the documentation of a deer hunt on US Election Day. In 2018, Groundworks commissioned my film 'Eating Up the Sky', for which I collaborated with scientists at Oxford University and a professional falconer. It explores how environments shape bodies, translating Milton Keynes' architecture through interactions between hawk, falconer and drone.Doctoral research will develop my practice and widen its impact, building interdisciplinary networks, embracing new technologies and facilitating in-depth, longer-term engagements with film-subjects and landscapes. It will expand the notion of the act of filming to an act of preying and visual capture by innovating custom filming methods and species-specific camera tools with a selected field of view and colouration. It will challenge anthropocentric representations, translating multispecies worlds within the geometric confines of the screen.This project will build on my proposed supervisory team's research in imagined eco-futures, camera as research tool, and more-than-human geographies, by focussing on species discourse, film ethics and ecology. It will produce new aesthetic perspectives on other-species perceptual worlds, furthering knowledge and social-cultural awareness of ourselves as human-animals.