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华人世界的艺术研究中,首次有系统地谈论艺术社会实践的着作。
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这是一本兼具理论与实际案例分析的佳作。作者不仅针对当代艺术的社会实践从西方经验到台湾与东亚在地的反思,其中更包含教育及公民行动的视角,对于跨领域艺术实践以及关心艺术连结社群发展的所有研究者而言,极具参考价值!──高雄师范大学跨领域艺术所副教授兼所长、国家文艺奖得主 吴玛俐
《美学逆袭──当代艺术的社会实践》一书中的当代艺术,没有奇蹟、没有天才,「只有街坊自救、八方支援的故事」。不论是树梅坑溪、土沟农村、海市蜃楼计画,对作者董维琇而言,都是当代艺术作为社会参与、环境关怀、公民论述、公众教育与抵拒仕绅化发展的具体化现。随着《美学逆袭》的出版,中文世界的读者,除了过去惯于引用的毕夏普、雷西、凯斯特与布西欧之外,终于有了以在地台湾当代艺术实践为基础的世界观点,有了属于自身观看社会参与式艺术的论述依凭。──国立台南艺术大学艺术创作理论研究所副教授 龚卓军
本书以各种角度来探讨当代艺术的社会实践:从艺术史以及美学理论基础到案例研究,从西方经验到台湾与东亚区域性的对话,以及如何教育艺术的社会实践;并且揭露出近年来这样的艺术取向,对于自然环境与人文生活的深刻影响,进而带来公民行动的醒觉。当艺术走进社会,要求活在真实里,它所批判与质问属于这个时代的问题,足以唤起社群的自觉,以各种充满创意的方式去自我表达,成为一股改变的力量,这样的艺术不只是侷限在美术馆里的,而是与我们的生活与生命息息相关,也因此更加动人。
This is a thought-provoking book that brings both theoretical frameworks and case studies into light. Tung’s book explores the perspectives of social practice in contemporary art from within Western and East Asian contexts. It also adds significant perspectives on education and civil activism. This book is worth reading for practitioners of interdisciplinary art and researchers concerned with the relation of art to the development of communities.
Mali Wu / Associate Professor and Director of Graduate School of interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University
The Challenge of Aesthetics: Social Practice in Contemporary Art is a book that shows that contemporary art practice is not about creating miracles or works of genius; it is about the stories of “communities self-awakening and being fulfilled, as well as receiving support from the ‘outside’.” For Wei Hsiu Tung, the “Plum Tree Creek,” “Togo Village,” and “Mirage” projects, amongst others, all epitomize contemporary art practice in terms of social engagement, care for the environment, civil discussion or education, and resistance to urban gentrification. Beside the usual references to Bishop, Lacy, Kester and Bourriaud, Tung’s The Challenge of Aesthetics provides Chinese language readers of studies on social practice art with a local perspective as well as worldview from within the self-reflective framework of Taiwan.
Jow-Jiun Gong / Ph.D. Associate Professor/ Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts
This book offers different perspectives on discussions of social practice in contemporary art, from theories to case studies whether in Western or East Asian and Taiwanese contexts. The book also reflects on the educational dimension of social practice art and its potential for civil action.
By confronting society and its reality, and by raising the critical questions of our time, art can prompt different communities to develop self-awareness through creative expression. Such art practice has the power to bring-in change beyond the confines of the museum and within our own lives. This is what makes the social practice of art pivotal in our time.