Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening (eBook)

An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan

Wei Hsiu Tung (Autor)

Gerald Cipriani (Herausgeber)

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2013
204 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6586-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000s—arguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists’ endeavors to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity.

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Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000sarguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists' endeavours to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity.Despite the prevalence of artists engaged in social issues in today's world and the undeniable contributions of artistic residency to contemporary art practice, little literature or scholarly research has been conducted on the practical, conceptual, and ideological aspects of artist residency. Very often, it is perceived in very narrow terms, overlooking explicit or hidden issues of localism, nationalism and globalization. If artistic residence did indeed emerge from the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s in the Western worldand especially Britainthen this book argues that the contemporary sociocultural context of Taiwan calls for redefined, culturally-specific models of residency. The precarious geo-political situation of Taiwan has made issues of cultural identitytackled by artists and successive governments alikevery sensitive. A new genre of artistic residence in Taiwan would mean that artists involved from whatever cultural background operate as engaging interpreters; their roles would not be confined to mirroring culture and society. These artists-in-residence would contribute to cultural awakening by offering ways of negotiating creatively with otherness, and this for the sake of a better social life and shared identity.

Autor

About the AuthorWei Hsiu Tung was born and brought up in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She studied art education at Warwick University and social anthropology of art at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, United Kingdom. She has been teaching the theory of art at National University of Tainan, Taiwan, and was in 2010-2011 Visiting Research Fellow in public art in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design at London Metropolitan University. Her publications include “The Return of the Real’: Art and Identity in Taiwan’s Public Sphere” (2012).About the Editor Gerald Cipriani is professor at Kyushu University, Japan. He studied Western aesthetics in Leeds (LMU) and East Asian philosophy in London (SOAS). He has taught both in Europe and East Asia and was a British Academy Fellow at Kyoto University. His current writing focuses on dialogical aesthetics. He is the Chief Editor of Culture and Dialogue (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Inhalt

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Art as Sociocultural RepresentationChapter 2: Concepts and Practices in Artistic ResidenceChapter 3: Art in Taiwan: The Quest for IdentityChapter 4: Artistic Residence in TaiwanChapter 5: Towards a New Genre of Artistic ResidenceConclusion BibliographyAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 27 Illustrations including: - 26 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: art and sociology • art residency • Asian aesthetics • Asian cultural studies • Asian pop culture • Asian Studies • Asian visual culture • Cultural Identity • Taiwanese art culture • Taiwanese Art residency • Visual Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6586-0 / 0739165860
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6586-7 / 9780739165867