Liminality: Reconfiguring identity and place through transitional rites in contemporary art practices

这项研究将建立在我的博士实践基础上——“阈限、风险和重复：当代艺术实践中的女性化”。“阈限”一词源于拉丁语“limen”，意思是阈值，自20世纪初以来一直在人类学语境中使用，自20世纪60年代以来在更广泛的文化语境中使用。阈限领域是“意识”（如清醒和睡眠）或“存在”（如人类和动物）两种不同状态之间的通道。人类学家维克多·特纳（Victor Turner）将阈限领域描述为“一个不是地方的地方，一个不是时间的时间”。在阈限空间中，我们对时间的正常理解被暂停，我们对自己和环境的理解可能会发生改变。这些中间国家的不确定性导致人们对它们充满怀疑和焦虑。此外，在文化上，阈限体验与女性气质有着消极的联系。我的研究旨在从更积极的角度重新思考阈限体验，利用这个“空间”提供的巨大潜力，在当代艺术实践的背景下发展我们对地点和身份的理解。我也会质疑和重新审视女性气质和阈限之间的关系。通过我的艺术实践，我的目标是创造物理和/或心理空间，在这些空间中，观众/参与者可以体验到阈限的可能性。虽然我已经在这一领域进行了大量的研究，但我认为这一研究的发展潜力巨大。我希望通过一件艺术作品建立产生阈限现象的最佳条件，并探索这可能产生的文化影响。为了做到这一点，我将研究我们如何通过艺术作品通过仪式改变我们对时间的体验，从而进入阈限领域。公共艺术项目、特定场地装置和基于镜头的作品将成为实现这一目标的主要媒介。作为我研究的一部分，我将寻求发展和建立一个由在同一领域工作的艺术家和研究人员组成的网络，目的是组织一系列公共艺术项目，旨在探索通过艺术实践可以采用的不同策略，以创造阈限体验，以及这对观众和参与者的影响。这些项目和随附的出版物旨在促进和促进关于阈限及其文化含义的进一步对话和研究。

The research will build on my practice led DPhil - 'Liminality, Risk and Repetition: towards a feminine becoming in contemporary art practices'. The term liminal derives from the latin 'limen' meaning threshold and has been used in anthropoligical contexts since 1900s and in a broader cultural context since 1960s. The liminal realm is a passageway between two distinct states of 'consciousness' (eg awake and asleep), or 'being' (eg human and animal). Anthropologist Victor Turner has described the liminal realm as 'a place that is not a place and a time that is not a time'. In liminal space, our normal understanding of time which gives sense and order to experience is suspended and we may experience an altered understanding of ourselves and our environment. The uncertainty of these in-between states has led them to be regarded with suspicion and anxiety. In addition, liminal experience has been associated culturally in a negative way with femininity. My research aims to rethink liminal experience in amore positive light, drawing on the enormous potential that this 'space' offers in terms of developing our understandings of place and identity in the context of contemporary art practice. I will also be questioning and re-examining the relationship between femininity and liminality. Through my art practice, I aim to create physical and/or psychological spaces in which the possibility of an experience of liminality can occur for the viewer/participant. While I have already carried out a significant body of research in this field, I believe that huge potential exists for the development of this research. I wish to establish the optimum conditions to genrate liminal phenomena through an artwork, and explore the cultural effects that this could have. In order to do this I will be examining how we can access the liminal realm through artworks by altering our experience of time through ritual. Public art projects, site-specific installations and lens-based work will be the predominant mediums employed to achieve this. As part of my research, I will be seeking to develop and establish a network of artists and researchers working in the same field with the aim of organising a series of public art projects designed to explore the different strategies which can be employed through art practice to create liminal experience and the effects this can have for audiences and participants. These projects and an accompanying publication will aim to contribute to and promote further dialogue and research into liminality and its cultural implications.