Confessions of a Showwoman: Reinventing and Documenting 'Extraordinary' Live Entertainments For New Audiences.

作为一名现代女表演者，玛丽莎·卡内斯基十多年来一直站在创新戏剧实践和新马戏团的前沿。卡内斯基是一位获得奥利维尔奖的艺术家，他的作品可以被视为当代表演中西方文化趋势的一部分，这一趋势借鉴了19世纪流行娱乐的丰富多彩。卡内斯基作为谢菲尔大学国家游乐场档案馆(NFA)的研究员，试图创建一套独特的基于实践的研究和文献，将历史档案材料与她自己实践中的里程碑式发展融合在一起。表演者的忏悔将经历一系列历史和时间阶段。它将使研究过程得以记录，方法是将卡内斯基的《幽灵列车》改编为布莱克普尔的永久展览，并记录其在社区中的接受情况。所产生的材料将启动一份艺术家日记的形成，该日记借鉴了这种做法，以及对利用现场表演的游乐场游乐设施的历史档案研究。关于NFA表演者角色的历史研究以及这如何影响卡内斯基的实践，然后将导致第二本艺术家杂志。所有这些材料结合在一起将构成一本艺术家书的基础，这本书将在奖学金的最后一年出版。档案发现和通过研究过程创造的新材料都将被策划成巡回表演讲座和巡回展览，卡内斯基的神奇卡比内茨。这些Kabinets包含了来自NFA的档案材料和创造性的研究星历，并将伴随着相关的实际表演研讨会。这次考察将传播研究金的研究成果，并将研究置于既定的学术和文化背景下，特别是在戏剧和表演研究以及文化史领域。通过卡内斯基与Vanessa Toulmin博士联合举办的为期一天的研讨会，将进一步促进研究过程的传播以及历史学家、戏剧学者和表演从业者之间的对话。这将在布莱克浦的冬季花园举行，这是英国现存的与流行娱乐有关的最重要的历史场所之一。该项目将加强、记录和传播卡内斯基作为现代表演者与表演相关的研究。此外，研究结果将有助于理解当代大型艺术项目，这些项目借鉴了集市、马戏团、魔术和滑稽表演的传统，延续了壮观和非凡娱乐活动的基本未成文的历史。

A modern day showwoman, Marisa Carnesky has been at the forefront of innovative theatre practice and new circus for over a decade. Carnesky is an Olivier Award-winning artist whose work can be viewed as part of the current western cultural trend in contemporary performance, which draws reference to the cornucopia of nineteenth-century popular entertainments. Carnesky seeks to create a unique body of practice-based research and documentation that fuses historical archival material with milestone developments in her own practice, by being based as a research fellow in the National Fairground Archive (NFA) at the University of Sheffield.Confessions of a Showwoman will develop in a series of historical and chronological phases. It would enable the recording of the research process by following the reworking of Carnesky's Ghost Train as a permanent show in Blackpool and documenting its reception within the community. The material generated would initiate the formation of an artist's journal that draws on this practice alongside historical archival research into fairground rides that utilize live performance. The historical research on the role of showwomen at the NFA and how this informs Carnesky's practice, would then lead to a second artists journal. All the material combined would form the basis of an artist's book to be published in the final year of the fellowship.Both the archival findings and the new material created through the research process, would be curated into a touring performance-lecture and traveling exhibit, Carnesky's Wunder Kabinets. Containing archival materials from the NFA and creative research ephemera, these Kabinets would be accompanied by related practical performance workshops. This tour would disseminate the findings of the fellowship and would situate the research within established academic and cultural contexts, specifically in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, and Cultural History. Dissemination of the research process, and dialogue between historians, theatre academics and performance practitioners would be further enabled through a one-day symposium, curated by Carnesky in association with Dr Vanessa Toulmin. This would take place at Blackpool's Winter Gardens, one of the most important historical venues relating to popular entertainment in the United Kingdom still remaining.This project would enhance, document and disseminate Carnesky's performance-related research, as a modern day showwoman. Moreover, the research findings will contribute to an understanding of contemporary large-scale arts projects that draw on fairground, circus, magic and burlesque traditions, continuing the largely unwritten histories of spectacular and 'extraordinary' entertainments.