Helen Chadwick: Thinking Between Art and Architecture

海伦·查德威克：艺术与建筑之间的思考

• 批准号: AH/F002386/1
• 负责人: Stephen Walker
• 金额: $ 3.42万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF002386%2F1
• 关键词: Helen; Chadwick; Thinking; Between; Art

The British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced an apparently diverse range of work using a wide range of media. This project sets out to ask: in what ways, and to what extent, can Chadwick's oeuvre inform and invigorate current architectural thinking?Mark Sladen has recently suggested that the wealth of ideas in Chadwick's oeuvre met an unreceptive audience in the 'sensationalist and anti-intellectual' atmosphere of the art world in the years immediately after her death (Sladen 2004). However, recent work demonstrates an increasing openness to inter-disciplinary working, such that the kind of cross fertilisation of ideas that was central to Chadwick's approach is now being taken seriously, both in academia, architectural and artistic practice. Chadwick's thoughts on architecture were developed as part of a broader raft of ideas at one remove from her artistic projects; their role was to raise questions rather than provide answers. Her thoughts were not constrained to a narrow disciplinary conception of 'architecture,' but instead enjoyed a wide-ranging and inherently inter-disciplinary approach that included both timely and timeless issues. Her research demonstrates a wide knowledge, appreciation and understanding of architectural issues, historical periods, cultures, and theories, and this brings a remarkable maturity and breadth of understanding to an already receptive situation.The intention of this project is not to recuperate Helen Chadwick's work as 'architecture,' nor to contest existing art-historical reception: instead, it sets out to articulate and explore the ways in which her work can be brought to bear on contemporary debate within architecture, and between art and architecture. The importance and relevance of the project's questions emerge because the architectural issues she addressed remain current (indeed, some are now in more urgent need of attention), and because her work can continue to raise questions that sustain thinking here. It will ask:-What was her conception of the creative process, and how might this affect the role of the artist or architect?-What factors did she believe affected the experience of architecture, and what role might these play in identity formation?-How did she conceive the complex relationships between artifice and nature, myth, history and both classical and modern science? Where and how might such relationships bear on current architectural thinking?-What questions does her work raise concerning the relationship between theory and practice?These research questions develop around Chadwick's thirteen notebooks and associated papers, kept from March 1972 up to her death in 1996, plus preparatory lecture notes, and marginal notes in her library, all of which are contained in the Henry Moore Institute (HMI) archive in Leeds. I have already spent a month working in the archive, funded by the HMI. These notebooks evidence a complex and tangled web of research, ideas and speculation about wide-ranging issues. Within this tangle, individual strands of research are legible, articulate, meticulous and triangulated: the first stage of work is to extract the various strands that contribute to her architectural thinking and lay these bare.The subsequent, more important, methodological move echoes Chadwick's own method of 'juggling' or 'bisociation' (a technique she borrows from Arthur Koestler). Here, these strands of her work will be creatively combined with other critical and architectural theories, in order to demonstrate the range of architectural implications already contained within her research (explicit or latent), and to develop the investigation of these in new directions that bear more tangibly on current architectural thinking.This project will broaden the understanding of Chadwick's work, demonstrate its ongoing relevance and the incentive for studying it at the present time, and widen the range of disciplinary interest in her oeuvre.

英国艺术家海伦·查德威克（Helen Chadwick，1953-1996）使用多种媒介创作了一系列明显多样化的作品。该项目旨在提出这样的问题：查德威克的作品能够以何种方式、在何种程度上为当前的建筑思想提供信息和活力？马克·斯拉登最近表示，查德威克作品中的丰富思想在“煽情主义和反建筑”中遇到了不接受的观众。她去世后几年艺术界的知识分子氛围（Sladen 2004）。然而，最近的工作表明，跨学科工作的开放性日益增强，查德威克方法的核心思想交叉融合现在在学术界、建筑界和艺术实践中都得到了认真对待。查德威克的建筑思想是作为一系列更广泛的想法的一部分而发展起来的，这些想法与她的艺术项目无关。他们的作用是提出问题而不是提供答案。她的思想并不局限于狭隘的“建筑”学科概念，而是采用了广泛的、本质上跨学科的方法，其中包括及时和永恒的问题。她的研究展示了对建筑问题、历史时期、文化和理论的广泛知识、欣赏和理解，这为已经接受的情况带来了非凡的成熟和理解的广度。这个项目的目的不是恢复海伦·查德威克的工作作为“建筑”，也不是为了质疑现有的艺术史接受：相反，它着手阐明和探索如何将她的作品带入当代建筑内部以及艺术与建筑之间的辩论。该项目问题的重要性和相关性之所以显现，是因为她所解决的架构问题仍然是当前的（事实上，有些问题现在更迫切需要关注），并且因为她的工作可以继续提出维持此处思考的问题。它将问：-她对创作过程的概念是什么，这会如何影响艺术家或建筑师的角色？-她认为哪些因素影响了建筑体验，以及这些因素在身份形成中可能发挥什么作用？-她如何构想技巧与自然、神话、历史以及古典与现代科学之间的复杂关系？这些关系在哪里以及如何影响当前的建筑思维？-她的工作提出了关于理论与实践之间关系的哪些问题？这些研究问题围绕查德威克的十三本笔记本和相关论文展开，这些笔记本和相关论文从 1972 年 3 月一直保存到她 1996 年去世，加上她图书馆的准备讲义和边注，所有这些都包含在利兹亨利摩尔研究所 (HMI) 档案中。在人机界面的资助下，我已经在档案馆工作了一个月。这些笔记本证明了关于广泛问题的复杂而错综复杂的研究、想法和猜测。在这种混乱中，各个研究线索是清晰的、清晰的、细致的和三角化的：工作的第一阶段是提取有助于她的建筑思维的各个线索并将其暴露出来。随后的、更重要的方法论举措与查德威克自己的方法相呼应“杂耍”或“双联”的方法（她从阿瑟·科斯特勒那里借来的技巧）。在这里，她的这些作品将创造性地与其他批判和建筑理论相结合，以展示她的研究中已经包含的建筑含义的范围（显性的或潜在的），并在新的方向上开展对这些影响的研究更切实地体现当前的建筑思想。该项目将拓宽对查德威克作品的理解，展示其持续的相关性和目前研究它的动力，并扩大对她作品的学科兴趣范围。