

Bill Aitchison on Becoming a Performance ArtistHi 朋友们,我是托雅。本期对话我请到了我的老师,也是一位老朋友,英国行为艺术家比尔·艾奇森(Bill Aitchson)。Bill曾在中国多所大学的语言文学系和艺术学系任教。本科时我曾经修读过他开设的戏剧表演和创意写作课,受到了很多启发,希望把他的故事分享给大家。另外,借这期播客,我也打算拓展一个新的对话系列,关注不同领域实践者、从业者的真实经历和人生故事。欢迎感兴趣的朋友邮件投稿自己的故事,语言不限:mentaltravelers99@gmail.com 我们聊了些什么: 01:49 行为艺术是什么? 03:41 Bill是如何成为一位行为艺术家的?(求学经历、职业发展) 08:24 对艺术行业幻灭之后如何继续创作? 14:04 如何在大学里教授艺术?(Bill的教学观) 23:17 Bill的作品:《舶来地》(Borrowed Land)、《中国快修》(China Quick-fix) 32:36 Bill如何看待观众对自己艺术作品的评价? 35:47 Bill的印度之旅 49:30 Bill 在中国的生活 55:29 Bill给新手艺术家的tips 1:04:27人工智能与原创艺术的未来 比尔・艾奇森(Bill Aitchison) Bill 是一位常驻中国的英国行为艺术家。他的作品在欧洲、北美、中东、澳大利亚及中国的多家重要博物馆、画廊、剧院与艺术节中展出,被私人藏家与博物馆共同收藏。他于伦敦金史密斯学院(Goldsmiths College)取得行为艺术与动作训练领域的实践型博士学位。他的创作横跨伦敦现场艺术、纽约实验戏剧、德国后戏剧剧场、欧洲观念舞蹈、巴尔干半岛在地艺术和中国行为艺术领域。他曾在中国多所高校担任本科及研究生阶段的教学与授课工作,在全球多地的学术会议上分享研究成果。另外,他还联合创办了行为艺术平台Last Minute Live Art。目前,他担任北京师范大学-香港浸会大学珠海校区(BNBU Zhuhai)文化与创意学院副教授。 更多关于Bill的故事: 漫游湾区的异域观察者|对话Bill Aitchison H SPACE 现场|比尔•艾奇森:中国快修 G Museum回顾|不稳定性:比尔艾奇森冬季表演工作坊 工作坊回顾|透过快修,来理解日常生活 【TEDxUIC】Bill Aitchison:人工智能时代下的艺术表达主体性 主持人:乌兰托雅 剪辑:乌兰托雅 音乐:忻然 Listen on Spotify and YouTube.
François Mouillot on Researching the Musical UndergroundHow to study underground music scenes around the world? In this episode of Mental Travelers, Dr. François Mouillot shares his journey as a researcher of underground music, reflecting on disciplinary methodologies and personal experiences across France, Canada, and China. We discussed: * 1. François’s path to becoming a researcher of underground music * 2. The transition of François’s approach from ethnomusicology to cultural studies * 3. The meaning of studying a “marginalized” topic * 4. François’s writing and editorial process * 5. François’s future research plan * 6. Living with disability About the host: Tuoya Wulan (乌兰托雅) is a translator and illustrator from Inner Mongolia, China. About the Guest: Dr. François Mouillot is an assistant professor from the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. He is a cultural and media theorist whose research interests include cultural scenes, cultural infrastructures, popular and experimental music, do-it-yourself and improvisation studies, health humanities, digitization/AI in artistic practices, and identity construction in industrialized minority contexts (with extensive ethnographic experience in Hong Kong S.A.R., the province of Québec in Canada, and the Basque region). He is currently leading the Hong Kong Live Music Study, the first survey of the cultural and social value of the live music sector and of its infrastructures (venues, concert organizations, and promotional agencies) across all music genres in Hong Kong. Related Readings Fractured Scenes – Underground Music-Making in Hong Kong and East Asia. Palgrave MacMillan. "Avant-garde and Popular Forms Between Music and Visual Media – Transhistorical and Intermedial Investigations". Cinéma & Cie – International Film Studies Journal, vol. xix no. 33. "The social and cultural dimension of ‘platforming’ live music: the case of the Hong Kong independent music scene during the Covid-19 pandemic". Popular Communication. "Hearing the Inaudible: The Hong Kong Experimental Music Scene in the Covid-19 Pandemic". Perfect Beat, 21(2), 123–134. "Avant into Pop, Pop into Avant. Interplays between Music and Visual Media". Cinéma & Cie – International Film Studies Journal, vol. xix no. 33, pp. 7-19. "Getting Out of the Black Box: Analogizing the Use of Computers in Electronic Music and Sound Art". Organised Sound, vol. 20 no. 2, pp. 191-199. "Resisting Poems: Expressions of Dissent and Hegemony in Modern Basque Bertzolaritza", Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation, vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 1-12. 🎧 Listen on Spotify & YouTube 🎼 Special thanks to Xin Ran (忻然) and Wu Wanni (吴宛妮) for composing the original music for this episode.
W. J. T. Mitchell on Mental Traveler, Madness, and More👋 Hi,大家好,我是乌兰托雅 (Tuoya Wulan),朋友们都叫我托雅。我是一名英文系的学生,也是一名译者和插画师。2025年春,W. J. T. 米切尔(W. J. T. Mitchell)教授来北大做一系列题为 “艺术与无限” 的讲座,我请他在未名湖边分享了一下自己的人生经历。在这期即兴发挥的英文播客中,我们两人主要讨论了米爷爷的回忆录 Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia(The University of Chicago Press, 2020)。目前我正在翻译这本书,预计2026年左右由新行思推出。Mental Traveler 讲述了米爷爷的儿子加布里埃尔 · 米切尔(Gabriel Mitchell)经历精神分裂症(schizophrenia)并用艺术创作的方式理解自身的故事。加布离世后,米爷爷撰写了这本书,希望通过写作理解儿子的生命和自己的经历。在书籍内容外,我们还讨论了米爷爷在美国学习、研究、教授英语文学和艺术史的感悟。 由于精力有限,在这期播客推出时,我还没有来得及翻译一份中文文稿供更多听众和读者参考,只能暂时以全英文的方式呈现,未来有机会的话,我希望能专门用一段时间慢慢整理好,以文字形式将这次对谈呈现给更多感兴趣的朋友。 这档播客缘起于这本书,所以就叫Mental Travelers 好了。初衷是和大家分享米切尔老师的人生经历,目前没有定期更新的安排。也许在遇到下一位知心的同路旅人时,我会随机更新,还请大家不要期待。 🌟 温馨提示:湖边常有鸟类和游人出没,音频无法完全过滤大自然的声音,或许略有干扰。如果可以的话,请大家当作和我们一起来到了湖边,坐在我们身边,一同体验未名湖真实的环境音。感谢理解和包容。 ❤️ 我要特别感谢我的好友,北京大学历史系研究生忻然,她为本期播客创作了主题音乐。 🎬 下面和大家分享一些米爷爷来北京玩时的照片。这是他2024和2025年两次行程的部分记录。感谢图片中的各位老师允许我使用这些影像。 (米爷爷在未名湖边讲解Mental Traveler 一书中儿子Gabe 创作的插画) (我带八十三岁的米爷爷骑共享单车逛北大校园,他骑车比我还快) (我带米爷爷和他的好友Norman Macleod教授到北大的草图咖啡馆看学生公益组织养的小兔子) (米爷爷、包华石教授、我在北京大觉寺,2024年春) (包华石教授、米爷爷、蒋人和教授在798参观艺术展览) ✍️ 关于作者 W. J. T. 米切尔 (W. J. T. Mitchell) : 美国芝加哥大学英语和艺术史双系同聘荣誉教授(Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor),享誉国际的艺术史、视觉艺术与文学理论专家。他于1988年至1991年间担任芝加哥大学英语系主任,并自1978年至2020年长期担任权威期刊《批评探索》(Critical Inquiry)的主编,因其在教学与科研领域的突出贡献,米切尔教授获得美国艺术史教学终身成就奖,并于2017年获选美国人文与科学学院院士。他的代表性著作包括《图像学》(Iconology, 1986)、《图像理论》(Picture Theory,1994)和《图像何求》(What Do Pictures Want?, 2005)等。米切尔教授是视觉文化研究领域的开创性学者,他的跨学科研究广泛影响了美学、媒体研究、文学批评、艺术史和视觉文化研究等多个领域,使图像与视觉成为当代人文学科的重要方向。他的在人文学科广泛引领了的图像理论和视觉文化的研究,他提出了“图像转向”(pictorial turn)、“元图像”(meta-picture)等概念,探索图像、语言与权力的关系,深刻影响了文学、艺术史、艺术理论和文化研究等领域。他通过《图像理论》等著作重新定义了图像研究方法,将视觉文化与社会政治语境紧密联系起来。 📖 关于本书 Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia 芝加哥大学出版社对本书的英文介绍: How does a parent make sense of a child’s severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell’s memoir tells the story—at once representative and unique—of one family’s encounter with mental illness and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son. Gabriel Mitchell was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age twenty-one and died by suicide eighteen years later. He left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to honor his son’s attempts to conquer his own illness. Before his death, Gabe had been working on a film that would show madness from inside and out, as media stereotype and spectacle, symptom and stigma, malady and minority status, disability and gateway to insight. He was convinced that madness is an extreme form of subjective experience that we all endure at some point in our lives, whether in moments of ecstasy or melancholy, or in the enduring trauma of a broken heart. Gabe’s declared ambition was to transform schizophrenia from a death sentence to a learning experience, and madness from a curse to a critical perspective. Shot through with love and pain, Mental Traveler shows how Gabe drew his father into his quest for enlightenment within madness. It is a book that will touch anyone struggling to cope with mental illness, and especially for parents and caregivers of those caught in its grasp. 🎨 播客封面设计:乌兰托雅 🔊播客音频制作:乌兰托雅 🎵主题音乐:忻然