IN BETWEEN US: MAKING ARTWORK TO EXPLORE NEW RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CONTINGENCY, REFLEXIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY.

我的主要研究课题是：通过艺术实践，如何通过合作即兴创作的诗意纪录片发展成为一个反思性的相遇空间，就像视频装置为观众创造了对新的社会互动空间的想象。本课题通过制作两件艺术作品，并为艺术作品与公众相遇的场景，探讨以下问题：日常现实中的偶然性和偶然性是如何被带入艺术实践的？艺术实践如何利用机会和偶然创造特定的空间舞台，让观众-参与者-艺术家互动？艺术创作和展览的合作过程如何被理解为戏剧，作为一种新的狂欢形式？艺术实践中的反身性，在艺术家、主体、艺术品和观众之间的目光循环的意识中，如何打开一个既公共又私人的相遇空间？这种反射性的眼神交换如何能使新的识别过程和对其他现实的想象成为可能？我的主要目标是发展三个项目；两件艺术作品（录像装置《回声》和《拾取者》），第三，这些艺术作品的传播方法。通过这三个项目，我将通过创造涉及实际和流离失所的地点和距离经验的场景来探索研究问题。对于艺术家、参与者和观众来说，这些地方的体验——归属感或局外人的感觉——创造了现实与幻想、同理心和认同的相互作用。这三个项目将寻求通过反身性，引发对另一个（参与者、观众和艺术家）可能在寻找什么的猜测。实践将通过揭示图像制作过程来探讨这些问题；这是一个通过游戏结构进化的过程，并通过镜像、交流和相互指导的关系来构建。这项研究将主要以肯特大学戏剧、电影和视觉艺术学院的电影系为基础，尽管我也会与学院其他部门的研究人员联系，以及其他部门（例如：人类学系）。实践将由电影部门管理，但场景将设在其他地方：部分在肯特郡，正如Echo和The Pickers所要求的那样，部分在“其他地方”。在这个过程开始之前，它仍然没有决定其他地点的确切位置。我将通过制作两个视频装置来进行研究：Echo：将探索由两个“相机”的方向所催化的对话和想象，以及它们由两组彼此分开的人组织时所记录的观点。这个过程将探讨一个地方的实际体验与通过图像的远程体验之间的差异和动态。采摘者：大量年轻的东欧人前往英国肯特郡的大型农场工作，他们被这些农场提供的工作和休闲相结合的承诺所吸引。我将与这些移民工人中的一小部分人合作一个项目，开始制作一个互惠的“宣传片”，以未来为背景，为英国年轻人提供想象中的机会，让他们通过移民到这些工人离开的地方找到机会。我将通过使用批判性分析和文本分析的方法来开发这些艺术品。我还将通过探索最终作品的展示和传播可能的结构来进行研究。这种最终形式的决定只能通过参与发生的事件来发展。

My principal subject of research is: Through art practice, how might collaboratively improvised poetic documentary developed into a reflexive space of encounter as video installation create, for a viewer, the imagining of new spaces of social interaction.This subject is investigated by exploring the following questions through making two art works, and developing a scenario for the artworks encounter with a public:How is chance and the contingency of everyday reality brought into art practice? In what ways might art practice engage chance and the contingent in creating specific stagings of spaces for viewer-participant-artist interaction?How might collaborative processes of art-making and exhibiting be understood as theatrical, and as a new form of carnival?How can reflexivity in art practice, in the consciousness of the circuit of looks between artist, subject, artwork and viewer, open up a space of encounter that is both public and private?How can this reflexive exchange of looks enable_new processes of identification, and the imagining of other realities? My key aims are to develop three projects; two art works (the video installations Echo and The Pickers) and, thirdly, a methodology for the dissemination of these artworks. Through these three projects I will explore the research questions by creating scenarios involving the actual and the displaced experiences of place and distance. For the artist, participant and viewer, these experiences of place - of belonging or of feeling an outsider - create an interplay of realities and fantasies, empathy and identification. The three projects will seek, through reflexivity, to provoke speculation as to what another (participant, viewer and artist) might be looking for.The practice will explore these issues through revealing the image-making process; A process evolved through structures of play, and framed through relationships of mirroring, exchange and mutual guidance.This research would be primarily based in the Film department in the School of Drama, Film and Visual Arts at the University of Kent, although I would also be in contact with researchers in other departments within the School, and beyond it (eg: the Anthropology department). The practice would be managed from the Film department but the scenarios would be situated elsewhere: partly within Kent and as both Echo and The Pickers require, partly 'elsewhere'. Until the process begins it remains undecided as to exactly where these other locations will be.I would undertake the research through the making of two video installations:Echo:will explore the dialogue and imagination catalysed by the orientation of two 'cameras' and the views they record when organised by two groups of people apart from each other. The process will investigate the disparity and dynamic between the actual experience of a place, and its remote experience through images.The Pickers:Large numbers of young Eastern Europeans travel to the UK to work in large farms in Kent, lured by the promise of a combination of work and leisure they provide. I will work on a project with a small group of these migrant workers to begin the development of a reciprocal 'promotional video,' set in the future, offering British youth the imagined opportunities to be found through migrating to the place where these workers had left.I will develop these artworks through using methodologies of critical analysis and textual analysis. I will also undertake the research through exploring the possible structures for exhibiting and disseminating the final works. This decision of a final form can only be developed through engaging with the events that occur.