Tate Encounters: Black and Asian Identities, Britishness and Visual Culture

该提案是泰特英国美术馆（拥有英国艺术国家收藏），伦敦南岸大学（社会政策和城市再生研究所及其家庭和社会资本ESRC研究小组，在家庭研究，散居和移民领域享有盛誉）和温布尔登艺术学院/艺术大学之间的跨学科研究合作（汇集了美术实践和视觉文化研究）。该项目将深入研究50个伦敦移民家庭，主要来自非洲/加勒比和亚洲移民，如何在三年的时间里与泰特英国美术馆和英国国家艺术收藏馆相遇。该项目将通过LSBU的一年级本科生招募家庭参与，他们是家庭中第一代在英国接受高等教育的学生。LSBU是英国招收不同种族学生人数最多的大学之一。该研究计划将调查世代和性别是否是泰特遭遇的重要因素。这些家庭和研究人员编制的材料将构成以下三个相互关联的评价和分析的基础：视觉文化与英国性叙事；文化多样性政策与博物馆；以及参与式博物馆教育实践模式。研究的问题在于，人们越来越认识到，在博物馆的生活中倡导更大的文化多样性是由政策主导的，其结果是，博物馆所采取的战略和方案缺乏证据基础的好处，即移民和散居背景的人如何重视国家博物馆和藏品并与之互动。基于“社会资本”如何将社会阶层排除在文化参与之外的政策主导倡议，导致博物馆教育实践以旨在与传统上被排斥的群体建立联系的外展项目为中心。批判性策展实践同时涉及从后殖民和视觉文化理论中提取的理论观点，这些理论前景是流散的文化历史和经验。这两种方法都没有显著提高不同受众的参与度。在这种情况下，需要解决缺乏基于证据的研究来检验政策和实践方法的问题。该项目旨在深入探讨散居群体与重要的国家文化遗址之间持续相遇的相互意义。该项目将开发新的知识和理解，了解如何在泰特的策展实践和收藏中包含、构建和复制英国性的叙事，以及在日常生活中活跃的物质/视觉文化实践的背景下，不同的移民和散居家庭成员如何接受和重视这些概念。从这次接触中，该项目将开发新的策展和教育视角，与更广泛和更多元文化的观众相关，并将为博物馆和画廊部门的文化变革做出贡献。该项目将为策展人、博物馆教育工作者、工作人员和博物馆研究的学生提供对散居和移民观众对永久藏品和临时展览的参与的分析，从而直接受益。在提供以实践为主导的参与式博物馆教育方法的评估时，它将对博物馆教育工作者有用。在考虑未来的文化多样性政策和资助举措时，最终评估报告将直接用于政策制定者、意见领袖和部门利益相关者。

The proposal is for interdisciplinary research collaboration between Tate Britain (which holds the National Collection of British Art), London South Bank University (the Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute and within it the Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group, with a reputation in the area of family studies, diasporas and migration) and Wimbledon School of Art/University of the Arts, (which brings together fine art practice and visual cultural studies). The project will produce in-depth case studies of how fifty London migrant families, primarily from the African/Caribbean and Asian diasporas, encounter Tate Britain and the National Collection of British Art over a three year period. The project will recruit family participation through first year undergraduate students at LSBU, who are the first generation of their family to attend higher education in the UK. LSBU has one of the highest intakes of ethnically diverse students in the UK. The research programme will investigate whether generation and gender are significant factors in the Tate encounter. The resulting body of material developed by the families and the researchers will form the basis for three inter-related evaluations and analysis of; visual culture and narratives of British-ness; Cultural diversity policy and museums; and models of participant museum education practice. Research Context The research problematic draws on the growing recognition that advocacy for greater cultural diversity within the life of museums has been policy led with the consequence that museums have responded with strategies and programmes which lack the benefit of an evidential knowledge base of how people of migrant and diasporic backgrounds value and interact with national museums and collections. Policy led initiatives based upon how 'social capital' functions to exclude sections of society from participation in culture have led to museum educational practice centred on outreach projects aimed at establishing links with traditionally excluded groups. Critical curatorial practice has simultaneously engaged with theoretical perspectives drawn from post-colonial and visual cultural theory which foreground diasporic cultural histories and experience. Neither approach has led to any significant increase in audience engagement for diverse audiences. In such a situation the absence of evidence based study from which to test policy and practice approaches needs to be addressed. Aims and Objectives The project aims to provide an in-depth account of the reciprocal meanings of a sustained encounter between a diasporic group and an important national cultural site. The project will develop new knowledge and understandings of how narratives of British-ness are contained, constructed and reproduced within the curatorial practices and collection of Tate and of how such notions are received and valued by different migrant and diasporic family members within the context of the active material/visual cultural practices of everyday life. From this encounter the project will develop new curatorial and educational perspectives relevant to wider and more culturally diverse audiences and will contribute towards cultural change within the Museum and Galleries sector. Potential applications and benefits The project will be of direct benefit to curators, museum educators and staff and students of museum studies in providing an analysis of a diasporic and migrant audience's engagement with permanent collections and temporary displays. In providing an evaluation of a practice-led participatory museum education approach it will be of use to museum educators. The final evaluation report will be of direct use to policy makers, opinion formers and stakeholders in the sector when considering future cultural diversity policy and funding initiatives.