The film archive as boundary object

TY - GEN

T1 - The film archive as boundary object

AU - Dunlop, Gair

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - Moving image practice is uniquely suited to extended dialogue with scientific practitioners. Reflecting on my own experiences linking scientists, workers and residents of nuclear towns, I explore the use of film archive material and the ‘grain of its voice’ to explore links between hyper-specific lived experience and ways in which nationhood and the nuclear are tightly bound together in UK self-image. I introduce the concept of the ‘boundary object’ (Guthrie, 2022) which relates to things, processes or ways of interacting which allow artists and scientists to explore each other’s ways of making, experiencing and thinking without the requirement to abandon their uniqueness. It avoids the scenarios of artists illustrating scientists work, or scientists being dragged into artificial ‘participation’ exercises.

AB - Moving image practice is uniquely suited to extended dialogue with scientific practitioners. Reflecting on my own experiences linking scientists, workers and residents of nuclear towns, I explore the use of film archive material and the ‘grain of its voice’ to explore links between hyper-specific lived experience and ways in which nationhood and the nuclear are tightly bound together in UK self-image. I introduce the concept of the ‘boundary object’ (Guthrie, 2022) which relates to things, processes or ways of interacting which allow artists and scientists to explore each other’s ways of making, experiencing and thinking without the requirement to abandon their uniqueness. It avoids the scenarios of artists illustrating scientists work, or scientists being dragged into artificial ‘participation’ exercises.

KW - art

KW - dialogue

KW - documentary

KW - video

KW - collaboration

KW - film archive

KW - interdisciplinarity

UR - https://ssahistory.wordpress.com/current-journal/

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M3 - Conference contribution

BT - Scottish Society for Art History Journal

PB - Scottish Society for Art History

T2 - Art &amp; Science: Connections<br/>&amp; Interactions 2023<br/>

Y2 - 24 February 2023 through 25 February 2023

ER -