Things of the least: lively exhibition-making through the material encounters of under-3s

最不重要的事情：通过 3 岁以下儿童的物质接触进行生动的展览

• 批准号: AH/Y005597/1
• 负责人: Rachel Holmes
• 金额: $ 30.16万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY005597%2F1
• 关键词: Things; least; lively; exhibition; making

Based in Manchester, this project will develop new and experimental exhibitionary practices through the spatial, material and embodied knowledges of children who are under 3. Overturning conventional assumptions about very young children by framing them as active contributors to the public space of the museum, the project emerges from a longstandingpartnership between Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Art Gallery (MAG) and a Sure Start centre. It is underpinned by two key strands of our research: young children's more-than-verbal capacities to animate collections and gallery architecture; and artistic processes that call on different kinds of attunement to embodied sensations and affectiveencounters, both deeply related by their commitment to interdisciplinarity and co-produced inquiry.Recognising the potential of young children's expressions of vitality in their encounters with collections, this work redresses the paucity of knowledge, understanding and practice around co-produced engagement with, and exhibitions for under 3s. It contributes to moves in UK museums and galleries towards more inventive and experimental exhibition cultures bydeveloping curatorial practices and participatory exhibition-making with young families across a three-year period. Working with three teams of artists, the project will examine how young children's ways of knowing can contribute and have a positive impact on museum collections.Combining museum studies, early years education and art as vital components in the creation of new forms of decolonising museological praxis, the project will open up a stored collection of over 4,000 objects of domestic life and childhood from the early 1800s-1900s for creative use by audiences who do not usually connect with the GLAM sector - objects that might seem insignificant and humble, yet anchor us deeply in a sense of belonging (The Mary Greg Collection). At the same time, it will facilitate deeper engagement with families and early years communities already engaged with MAG. Artists will translate key sensory and narrative qualities of selected objects from the collection into 10-15 prototypes (Mary Greg Play Kit) - sound or movement-based pieces, physical objects or digital artefacts specifically designed to engage children under 3 and their families. Prototypes will function as artefacts, play things and research objects giving insight into under 3s' play. With families as co-researchers, we will create a vocabulary of gestures, sounds and movements as the children engage with the prototypes to incorporate their forms of encounters into reworked objects and installation ideas. In the process of interrupting normative practices by democratising knowledge production, the project interweaves a range of public engagement activities with exhibition-making processes. These entangled events will occur across a number of sites, including a supported housing complex for young mothers; a temporary shelter for asylum seeking & refugee families; a nursery school & Sure Start children's centre; and Platt Hall (a closed former costume museum with an uncertain future, in the process of becoming a dynamic cultural space for local communities).The project will produce a range of shorter- and longer-term outcomes and impacts for Platt Hall and the Mary Greg collection as relevant and revitalised cultural assets.

该项目以曼彻斯特为基地，将通过 3 岁以下儿童的空间、材料和具体知识来开发新的实验性展览实践。通过将幼儿视为博物馆公共空间的积极贡献者，推翻了关于幼儿的传统假设，该项目源自曼彻斯特城市大学、曼彻斯特美术馆 (MAG) 和 Sure Start 中心之间的长期合作伙伴关系。它以我们研究的两个关键部分为基础：幼儿的超越语言的能力，使藏品和画廊建筑充满活力；和艺术过程，需要对具体的感觉和情感的遭遇进行不同的协调，这两者都与他们对跨学科性和共同探究的承诺密切相关。认识到幼儿在接触藏品时表达活力的潜力，这项工作纠正了这种缺乏围绕与 3 岁以下儿童共同制作的参与和展览的知识、理解和实践。通过在三年内与年轻家庭一起发展策展实践和参与式展览制作，它有助于英国博物馆和画廊走向更具创造性和实验性的展览文化。该项目将与三个艺术家团队合作，研究幼儿的认知方式如何对博物馆藏品做出贡献和产生积极影响。将博物馆研究、早期教育和艺术结合起来，作为创造新形式的非殖民化博物馆学实践的重要组成部分，该项目将开放 4,000 多件 1800 年代至 1900 年代早期家庭生活和童年物品的收藏，供那些通常不接触 GLAM 领域的观众进行创造性的使用- 看似微不足道、不起眼的物品，但却深深地扎根于我们的归属感（玛丽·格雷格收藏）。与此同时，它将促进与已经与 MAG 合作的家庭和早年社区进行更深入的接触。艺术家将从馆藏中选定的物品的关键感官和叙事品质转化为 10-15 个原型（Mary Greg Play Kit）——专门为吸引 3 岁以下儿童及其家人而设计的基于声音或动作的作品、实物或数字工艺品。原型将充当文物、玩具和研究对象，让您深入了解 3 岁以下儿童的游戏。在家庭作为共同研究人员的帮助下，当孩子们与原型互动时，我们将创建手势、声音和动作的词汇，将他们的遭遇形式融入到重新设计的物体和安装理念中。在通过知识生产民主化来打破规范实践的过程中，该项目将一系列公众参与活动与展览制作过程交织在一起。这些错综复杂的事件将在许多地点发生，包括为年轻母亲提供支持的住宅区；为寻求庇护者和难民家庭提供的临时庇护所；幼儿园和 Sure Start 儿童中心；和普拉特大厅（一个封闭的前服装博物馆，未来不确定，正在成为当地社区充满活力的文化空间）。该项目将为普拉特大厅和玛丽产生一系列短期和长期成果和影响格雷格收藏作为相关和振兴的文化资产。