Nature's Great Experiment\n(A Visual Documentary Investigation into The Study of Twins and Behavioural Genetics)

这个项目的标题是“自然的伟大实验”，指的是科学家和行为遗传学家用同卵双胞胎来描述他们的研究。行为遗传学试图理解遗传和环境对人类行为个体差异的贡献。我将采访和记录伦敦国王学院精神病学研究所的特里·莫菲特教授和她的研究团队。莫菲特教授是精神病学研究所社会、遗传和发展精神病学系的社会行为和发展教授。莫菲特教授和她的团队直接参与了行为遗传学这一科学研究领域，特别是双胞胎和人类行为的研究。根据这些录制的采访/对话，我将制作一部15分钟的叙事、基于肖像的纪录片风格的电影。这部电影还将使用这对双胞胎和研究人员在研究过程中绘制的图画。这项工作将以案例研究、学术/科学研究和轶事经验为基础。所有这些艺术家/电影制作人都是通过使用单摄像机和单麦克风录制技术来完成工作的。这些作品也都涉及某种形式的纪录片和/或肖像，这就是他们灵感的核心所在。我一直在研究这些艺术家的录制风格，同时通过探索数字视频编辑、动画和软件操作技术来形成自己独特的风格。2005年4月/6月，我在伦敦马特画廊举办了一场名为《别停下来》的展览，展出了五幅基于肖像的单屏幕视频作品。所有这些作品都表明，叙事和结构化的故事讲述可以成为当代艺术视频内容的主要来源。这些作品都挑战了传统的观点，即基于当代艺术的视频本质上是有氛围的，似乎没有公认的开头、中间和结尾的结构。《不停》、《等你够了》中的作品都要求观众集中注意力一段时间。虽然他们作为一个整体一起展出，但每件作品都有自己鲜明而强烈的身份。这不仅是通过每件作品的不同质量和主题实现的，也是通过作品安装的不同方式实现的。我打算继续这种模式，一起展示一系列精选的作品，但以不同的实际安装方式。电影是独立而完整地存在的，但在这种背景下，它们也是一种累积的效果，通向一种展览体验。我将继续以《大自然的伟大实验》的方式探索单屏作品的展览。总的来说，这些作品都是以纪录片为基础的肖像画，由发现的和最初产生的材料构建而成。

The title of this project, 'Nature's Great Experiment', refers to the phrase that scientists and behavioural geneticists use to describe their research with identical twins. Behavioural genetics seeks to understand both the genetic and environmental contributions to individual variations in human behavior. I will interview and record Professor Terrie Moffitt and her research team at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Professor Moffitt is Professor of Social Behaviour and Development in the Department of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. Professor Moffitt and her team are directly involved with the area of scientific enquiry that is behavioural genetics - and specifically the study of twins and human behaviour. From these recorded interviews/conversations I will make a 15 minute, narrative, portrait based, documentary - style film. The film will also use drawings that have been made by the twins and the researchers, produced in the course of their research. The work will be based on case studies, academic/scientific research and anecdotal experience. This research will manifest itself as a short poetic film, and a series of exhibitions with a companion hardcopy publication.The resulting works will ultimately deal with ideas of the human body, nature, evolution, the location of the human soul and the ability to change people's lives, (if not the world), through science, ideas and belief.Over the past five years my films have become increasingly influenced by the narrative structures found in the works of artists/filmmakers such as: Andy Warhol, Ondi Timoner, Chris Smith and Sarah Price, Sarah Tripp and Penelope Spheris. All of these artist/filmmakers have made work through the use of single camera and single microphone recording techniques. These works also all deal in some form of documentary and/or portraiture and that is where the core of their inspiration lies for me. I have been studying the recording styles of these artists while developing my own distinct style through the exploration of digital video editing, animation and software manipulation techniques. My recent exhibition, 'don't stop 'til you get enough', at Matt's Gallery London, April / June 2005, consisted of five, single-screen, portrait based video works. All of these works manifest the idea that narrative and structured storytelling can become the primary source for content within contemporary art videos. These works all contest the conventional idea that contemporary art based videos are ambient in nature, and seemingly without the recognized structure of a beginning, middle and end. The works included in, 'don't stop 'til you get enough', all required the audience to focus their attention for a concentrated period of time. Although they were exhibited together as a group, each work had its own distinct and strong identity. This was achieved not only through the different qualities and subject matter within each work, but also through the different ways in which the works were installed. I intend to continue this model of exhibiting a selection of works together but in different manners of actual installation. The films exist autonomously and completely, but within this context they also work as an accumulative effect towards an exhibition experience. I will continue to explore the exhibition of single screen works in the manner of 'Nature's Great Experiment'. Universally, the works are documentary-based portraits, constructed from both found and originally generated materials.