Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde

Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde, January 2015<br>The full recordings are available here: Historical Documents of the Irish Avant Garde | Various Artists | Migro Records (bandcamp.com)<br><br>The purpose of the research was to open up an imaginative space where an Irish Avant-garde could have happened and to conduct an exercise in ‘what if?’ The work offers a fictional survey of avant-garde composition in Ireland from the late 19th to early 21st centuries. <br>Dr Walshe conducted research into the structures and establishments of Irish artistic history to investigate how histories of music are created, but found that there was no real data. She subsequently began bending history and explored a potential tradition of experimentalism in Ireland. Following this methodology, the research project opened up into a history of the imaginary which operates in parallel to the Irish cultural mainstream.<br>Dr Walshe's research showed that linear narratives in music are often fictional anyway due to the editing they tend to undergo. She unearthed parallels to Irish culture as a whole, which tends to expel its artists first before welcoming them back into their realm once they’re dead. The creation of an imaginative space in this work showed that an Irish avant-garde with revolutionaries, female, queer and other artists, who may have existed and subsequently been written out of history, could have happened.<br><b>Additional contextual data</b>aisteach: The Avant Garde Archive of Ireland: Aisteach | Preserving the history of Ireland's Avant-Garde<br><br>Somerset House Studios, 2018: Associate Artist Jennifer Walshe presents her project Aisteach. Recorded during the 2018 edition of Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam. Somerset House Studios / Aisteach, Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde: Jennifer Walshe (audioboom.com)<i><br></i><br>

爱尔兰先锋派（Irish Avant-Garde）历史文献（2015年1月）<br>完整录音可在此获取：《爱尔兰先锋派历史文献》| 群星 | Migro Records（bandcamp.com）<br><br>本研究旨在创设一处可容纳爱尔兰先锋派艺术构想的想象空间，并开展“倘若如此”式的推演练习。本研究对19世纪末至21世纪初爱尔兰先锋派音乐创作进行了虚构性梳理。<br><br>沃尔什博士（Dr Walshe）曾针对爱尔兰艺术史的架构与建制展开研究，以探索音乐史的构建逻辑，却未发现任何真实可考的相关史料。随后她着手重构历史脉络，探索爱尔兰本土可能存在的实验主义艺术传统。依托该研究方法，本项目最终衍生为一部与爱尔兰文化主流并行的虚构艺术史。<br><br>沃尔什博士的研究表明，音乐史的线性叙事往往因编纂过程中的加工修饰，本质上多为虚构产物。她还发现了与爱尔兰整体文化的共通之处：爱尔兰文化往往先将本土艺术家放逐，待其身后再将其重新纳入文化范畴。本研究通过创设想象空间，证明了爱尔兰先锋派艺术的可能性——那些曾可能存在却最终被历史抹去的革命者、女性艺术家、酷儿（queer）创作者及其他群体，本可成为该先锋派的组成部分。<br><br>**附加背景资料**<br>Aisteach：爱尔兰先锋派档案馆（The Avant Garde Archive of Ireland）| 致力于保存爱尔兰先锋派艺术史<br><br>2018年萨默塞特宫工作室（Somerset House Studios）：驻地艺术家詹妮弗·沃尔什（Jennifer Walshe）携其项目《Aisteach》参展。该录音于阿姆斯特丹2018届Sonic Acts学院（Sonic Acts Academy）活动期间录制。<br>萨默塞特宫工作室 / Aisteach，《爱尔兰先锋派历史文献》：詹妮弗·沃尔什（Jennifer Walshe）（audioboom.com）