Re-enchantment and Reclamation: New Perceptions of Morecambe Bay through Dance, Film and Sound

概述复魅与开垦是一个为期两年的研究项目，旨在开发舞蹈，电影和声音艺术的方法，以改变不同社区对他们所属地方的看法。具体而言，通过四个讲习班，该项目将举办至少八场公开讲座（每场至少一周），邀请国际知名艺术家和哲学家参加，旨在发现、发展和探索对莫雷坎贝湾和卢恩河口景观进行艺术再赋魅和改造的可能性，并积极促进该地区不同社区和利益集团不断变化的看法和理解。特别关注的是水，陆地和aeriel现象的美学和文化意义：海洋，潮汐，河流，海岸线，河口，海湾，天气和光。这些问题超出了具体倡议（新的发电厂、工业、住房、道路等）所造成的问题。环境特征被认为和感知的常规和有说服力的方式，也就是说，作为一个需要处理的问题或可利用的资源。这往往导致粗心、麻木不仁，甚至破坏性的关系和发展，具有讽刺意味的是，这些关系和发展忽视了对文化和经济复兴至关重要的特征。亲密的感知、遐想、记忆和对地方的热爱，通过这些，一个地区可能会被重新赋予魔力和同情，属于居民和游客的日常经验。然而，他们可以重申，加强和增强的艺术文物和事件，质疑不可避免的幻灭和工具。更广泛的意义和效益该项目将展示艺术的实际能力，以独特和重要的方式促进更广泛的辩论，人类与自然世界之间的关系。它将提高地方、国家和国际对该地区独特的历史、文化和环境特征及其具体特征的认识，从而与其邻国湖区的突出地位相抗衡。在第二阶段，该项目将专注于发展公共艺术作品，并将第一阶段进行的实践和理论研究成果带给社区，利益集团和利益相关者，他们都直接关心该地区的未来方向。在这一阶段，将有机会为规划、旅游和文化发展方面的政策制定提供信息并施加影响。[注：澳大利亚人权委员会将注意到，奈杰尔斯图尔特是提名的主要研究员这两个应用程序和链项目，为此，他已申请澳大利亚人权委员会根据研究资助计划在2005年11月。虽然这两个项目将重叠几个月，但应注意以下几点：虽然奈杰尔斯图尔特是唯一的调查员的链接项目，他是一个团队的四个共同调查员的再赋能和回收，和“水日志”，研讨会，他将有主要责任（见案例支持）将不会开始，直到链接项目完成。由于这个原因，并且因为再赋能和回收具有不同的目的，并且规模较小，LICA很高兴支持奈杰尔斯图尔特作为该项目的PI，以实现本申请的目的。

OverviewRe-enchantment and Reclamation is a two-year research project which aims to develop methods in dance, film, and the sonic arts for transforming the perceptions that different communities have of the place to which they belong. Specifically, through four workshops (each at least a week long) and at least eight public lectures with artists and philosophers of international distinction, the project aims to discover, develop and explore possibilities for the artistic re-enchantment and reclamation of the landscape of Morecambe Bay and the Lune Estuary, and to contribute positively to the changing perceptions and understandings of the area's different communities and interest groups. Particular attention will be given to the aesthetic and cultural significance of aquatic, terrestrial and aeriel phenomena: sea, tides, rivers, shoreline, estuary, bay, weather and light.ContextThere is widespread concern about our current relationship with the natural environment. The problems go beyond those posed by specific initiatives (new power plants, industries, housing, roads etc.) to the routine and persuasive ways in which environmental features are thought about and perceived, that is, as a problem to be dealt with or an exploitable resource. All too often this leads to careless, insensitive, even damaging relationships and developments, which ironically neglect the very features that may be vital to cultural and economic regeneration. Intimate perception, reverie, memory, and love of place, through which an area might be imaginatively and sympathetically re-enchanted and reclaimed, belong to the everyday experiences of residents and visitors alike. However, they can be reaffirmed, strengthened and enhanced by artistic artefacts and events that question the inevitability of dienchantment and instrumentally.Wider significance and benefitsThe project will demonstrate the practical capacity of art to contribute in ways that are distinctive and significant to wider debates about the relationship between human beings and the natural world. It will raise local, national and international awareness of the unique historical, cultural and environmental features of the area, and of its specific identity, thus acting as a counterbalance to the prominence of its neighbour the Lake District. In its second phase, the project will concentrate on developing public art works, and in taking the results of the practical and theoratical research undertaken in its first phase to communities, interest groups and stakeholders who are all directly concerned with the area's future direction. There will at this stage be an opportunity to inform and influence policy formation in planning, tourism, and cultural development.[N.B. The AHRC will notice that Nigel Stewart is the nominated Principal Investigator of both this application and The Chaining Project, for which he has applied to the AHRC under the Research Grant Scheme in November 2005. Although both projects would overlap by a few months, the following should be noted: whilst Nigel Stewart is the sole investigator of The Chaining Project, he is one of a team of four co-investigators for Re-enchantment and Reclamation, and 'Water Log', the workshop for which he will have prime responsibility (see Case for Support) will not commence until The Chaining Project is complete. For this reason, and because Re-enchantment and Reclamation has a different purpose and is on a smaller scale, LICA is happy to endorse Nigel Stewart as the PI of this project for the purpose of this application.