Curating Video

为了从我们之前的合作研究项目Episde[AH/D000831/1]中发展出一条线索，策展视频探索了策划集体视频展览的新可能性，通过关注视频媒体的意识形态力量，当它被理解为具有实质性的物质形式时。通过这个项目，我们的目标是测试和建立当代艺术中对视频策划的新形式和新态度。目前，建筑、社会学、媒体研究、文化理论和政治哲学等领域的话语探讨了政治和文化如何相互构建虚构，将我们共享的经历作为社区和社会性的时刻来阐述。其中包括雅克·兰齐埃的《理智的分布》(《政治与美学》，2004年)，安东尼·维德勒的《建筑的扩展领域》(国际艺术论坛，2004年4月)，以及乔恩·杰德的经验性安置。这些转变导致了策展艺术作品的新态度和对策展形式的新解释。特别是，它们导致了对策展作为一种批判性做法的强调，在这种做法中，策展被认为是当代生产的一部分/作为试验性的和扩大的。这已经反映在目前英国和国外研究生和研究层面的策展研究的多样性和广泛的艺术家运行空间。通过这项研究公共空间的策展和其中文化的影响，我们的目标是通过重新思考视频作品和它们所占据的建筑空间之间的关系，为群展形式的视频作品的策展提出新的批判性实践。在这里，我们的研究问：视频在多大程度上可以被体验为建筑的一个方面，即稳定的、物质的和基于对象的？接下来，它如何将自己确立为我们生活的现实的一部分？它在多大程度上分享了建筑形式的意识形态力量？画廊环境的这种概念和转变如何质疑人们对社会空间作为一个真实、真实和真实的场所的公认理解？这些方法上的明显变化，对美学和政治的新批评，以及目前视频艺术品的激增，证明有必要测试视频策展的新过程和解释。我们建议的研究成果如下：展览：为了开展这项研究，我们将在德国汉堡的KX画廊策划一场展览。这将包括艺术家阿曼达·比奇、皮埃尔·毕穆斯、贾斯帕·约瑟夫-莱斯特和罗曼·瓦瑟的四部单屏视频作品。我们策划的关键是创造一个特定的建筑环境，在这个环境中观看作品。这将对每一件艺术品和画廊建筑做出回应。研讨会：我们将邀请知名艺术家、策展人、作家和学者发表论文，探讨艺术实践中的研究方法，分享广泛领域的研究成果，并就研究项目的主题展开进一步的辩论。文件/传播：该项目将被记录下来，包括专题讨论会的文字记录，并将为今后的出版做好准备。我们将在UAL、谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学和埃塞克斯大学的专门大学网页上发布正在进行的整理文件。我们预计这个项目的应用和好处将是：1.为管理视频制定新的战略。与英国和国外的大学和画廊建立牢固的联系。向更广泛的专家和公众传播新的教育学研究4。今后的研究将发展成一系列的国际展览、座谈会和出版物5。通过以实践为基础的研究和出版的写作，发展和分享关于策展与公共和社会空间政治之间的关系的新批评。

In order to develop one strand from our previous collaborative research project Episode [AH/D000831/1], Curating Video explores new possibilities for the curation of group video exhibitions by focussing on the ideological force of video media when it is understood as having substantial material form.Through this project we aim to test and establish new forms and attitudes to the curation of video in contemporary art. Current discourse across the fields of architecture, sociology, media studies, cultural theory and political philosophy have explored how both politics and culture mutually construct fictions that articulate our shared experiences as moments of community and sociality. These include Jacques Ranciere on 'the distribution of the sensible' (Politics and Aesthetics, 2004), Anthony Vidler's 'Architecture's Expanded Field' (Artforum International, April, 2004), and Jon Jerde's Experiential Placemaking.These shifts have led to new attitudes in curating artworks and new interpretations of curatorial form. In particular they have led to an emphasis on curating as a critical practice, where curating is considered to be part of contemporary production / as experimental and expanded. This has been reflected in the current diversity of curatorial study at postgraduate and research level and a broad range of artist run spaces in the UK and abroad.Taking this research to the curation of public spaces and the affect of culture within them, we aim to propose new critical practices for the curation of video work in group exhibition formats by re-thinking the relationship between video works and the architectural space that they occupy. Here our research asks; to what extent can video be experienced as a facet of architecture, that is, stable, material and object-based? Following on from this, how does it establish itself as part of our lived reality? To what extent does it share the ideological power of architectural form? And; how does this conception and transformation of the gallery environment question the received understanding of social space as a site of authenticity, reality and truth? These visible changes in methodology, new critiques on aesthetics and politics, and the current proliferation of video artworks, evidences a need to test new processes and interpretations of video curation.Our proposed research outputs are as follows: Exhibition:In order to carry out this research we will curate an exhibition at KX Gallery Hamburg, Germany. This will feature four single screen video works from artists Amanda Beech, Pierre Bismuth, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, and Roman Vasseur. Key to our curation is the production of a specific architectural environment within which to view the works. This will respond both to each individual artwork and to the gallery architecture. Symposium:We will invite papers from leading artists, curators, writers, and academics to explore research methodology in art practice, to share research across a range of fields, and to generate further debate on the themes of the research project. Documentation/Dissemination:The project will be documented, including transcriptions from the symposium, and will be prepared for future publication. We will publish ongoing collated documentation on dedicated University WebPages across UAL, Sheffield Hallam University, and Essex University.We anticipate that the applications and benefits of this project will be: 1. The development of new strategies for curating video2. The establishment of strong links with universities and galleries in the UK and abroad3. The dissemination of new research in pedagogy to wider specialist and public audiences4. The future development of this research into a series of international exhibitions, symposia and publication5. The development and sharing of new critiques on the relationship between curating and the politics of public and social space through practice-based research and published writing.