藝術人類學與當代藝術
Anthropology of Contemporary Art
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5 13:20–14:10 | 藝術人類學與當代藝術 HK119 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
2000年間起,人類學界開始出現了一系列針對非歐美藝術、現代藝術、與當代藝術的重要研究。人類學家不僅研究藝術的社會意義,也分析原住民藝術被當代紐約畫廊挪用(appropriation)的全球化藝術政治課題; 許多人類學家也開始與藝術家合作,或是著手新型態的感官影視民族誌,抑或進行結合了檔案與田野工作的藝術計畫。此一跨領域合作的人類學藝術生產,不僅重新思考民族誌田野工作與藝術田野間的關係,也同時回應了藝術界近來在「合作型藝術 (collaborative art)」形式所做的各種社會介入、美學開展 (Kester 2011)。 本課程將介紹這一系列新型態的藝術人類學。探討的主題包括:人類學家如何面對當代藝術?如何實驗跨領域藝術合作?社會參與藝術的社會意義為何?台灣的藝術空間有什麼美學意義上的獨特性?我們將從經典的藝術人類學對美學物品社會性的探討,此一基點開始,分析不同的社會文化怎麼理解藝術做為概念和社會實踐。人類學家怎麼在後崇高(post-sublime)、當代全球藝術史(global art history)的土壤上,生長出藝術人類學在分析與創作上的樂趣與縱深?本課程將帶領同學在閱讀、課堂討論的同時,邀請藝術家與策展人進行客座演講,並參訪藝術空間,共同探索實踐當代藝術人類學的可能性。 In recent years the art world has witnessed a surge of interest in collaborative art practices, by which artists working side by side with not only fellow artists but also anthropologists, community organizers, or even physicists and biologists outside of the conventional space of galleries and museums. This course introduces students to a series of discussions surrounding this new paradigm of art practice, with which cultural theorists and art practioners welcome innovative collaboration as a way to challenge the boundary between art and society. We will begin by reading analyses of anthropology of art and collaborative art practices inspired by the "global art history" turn in the field, followed by the scholarship in anthropology that experiments on a new form of art agency beyond an art-as-the-gift paradigm. We will read and discuss how in different cultural and historical contexts art practices are launched in relation to other social segments inside and outside of museums. How do we evaluate the classic ethos of “art for art’s sake” from a perspective of global art history? How do we conceptualize aesthetic concepts in a post-sublime context where minor affects—such as boredom, cuteness, alienation, relationality and response—permeate contemporary art criticism? How do we consider the production of pleasure in artist who works beyond the traditional realm by embracing mass culture? How shall we navigate and envision the horizon for art practice today? Embarking on this journey of the anthropology of contemporary art, students will be encouraged to reconsider the nature and subject of art practice and art works.
1. 兩篇分析閱讀心得 Critical Reflections (2) 20%: two short essays summarizing and analyzing the arguments of the readings assigned, which should lead to your own reflections on the subject at hand. 5-10 pages, double-spaced, 12 ft. You should use these reflection papers to build up the subject of interest for your final term paper. 2. 期末報告 Final Essay 40%: essay topic decided by the student but has to be relevant to at least one or two themes introduced in the course. 10-20 pages, double-spaced, 12 ft. Students are welcome to discuss the essay topic with the instructor during the semester. 3. 學生課堂報告 Individual Presentation 20%: Student oral presentations based on their final paper subject, delivered at the last two sessions of the semester. 4. 課堂參與 Participation 20%: Your attendance, participation, and discussion performance will be counted toward the participation portion of your grade. TOTAL 100%
| 週次 | 主題 |
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| 第 1 週 | Introduction We will go through the syllabus carefully together and introduce the main themes included in the readings. How has anthropology traditionally considered art from an approach of symbolism and sociality? How have structuralists and post-structuralist emphasis on agency shifted the paradigm? 指定閱讀: Arnd Schneider & Christopher Wright. (2013). Ch.1 'Ways of Working,’ in Anthropology and Art Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| 第 2 週 | Conjunctions and Agency of Art 指定閱讀: Nicholas Thomas. (1998). ‘Foreword.’ In Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. New York: Oxford U. P. 建議閱讀: Alfred Gell. (1998). Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Chapter 1, 2, & Conclusion. New York: Oxford U. P. |
| 第 3 週 | Art as Public Anthropology 參訪台灣當代文化實驗場Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-lab) 指定閱讀: Alex Flynn. (2018). ‘Global South: Occupation//Participation//Knowledge.’ An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 179-195 建議閱讀: Philippe Descola. (2018). ‘The Idle Goddess: Notes about Post-Relational Anthropology of Art.’ An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 196-210 |
| 第 4 週 | The Semantics of Collaborative Art Practice How has the politics of art shifted from the Cold War ideology to community-oriented collaboration beyond the Euro-American world? How has the post-war art theories evolved from the Frankfurt school critical theory to contemporary art criticism? 指定閱讀: Grant H. Kester. (2011). ‘Introduction & chapter 1,’ The One and The Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Durham: Duke U. P. |
| 第 5 週 | Image and Medium We will discuss Philippe Descola—one of the leading anthropologists of our time—whose has developed a program of an anthropology of figuration that considers works of art as agents. Placing Descola’s idea in contrast to Alfred Gell’s focus on iconicity (Week 3), we will get a glimpse of how contemporary French anthropology treats art from a non-binary view in a post-structuralist context, and in relation to their opposition to the Nature-Culture divide. 指定閱讀: Philippe Descola. (2018). ‘Chapter 1.1 The Making of Images,’ in An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 25-40 建議閱讀: Paolo S. H. Favero. (2018). ‘Chapter 1.2 To Swallow or to get Swallowed, this is the Question: On viewing, Viewers, and Framers in the Context of “New Images”,’ in An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 41-56 #First Reflection Paper due |
| 第 6 週 | Disjuncture and Difference of Cultural Economy How has disjuncture emerged against the backdrop of a joyous economy? How has the changing cultural industry affect art circulation and artists? 指定閱讀: Arjun Appadurai. (1990). ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.’ Theory, Culture & Society Vol. 7: 295-310 建議閱讀: I-Yi Hsieh. (2020). ‘Art malls and popular collecting in post-socialist China.’ Researching Art Markets: Past, Present and Tools for the Future. Elisabetta Lazzaro, Nathalie Moureau, and Adriana Turpin eds. London: Routledge Michael Hutter. (2015). ‘Introduction,’ in The Rise of Joyous Economy: Artistic Invention and Economic Growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami. London: Routledge |
| 第 7 週 | Traversing Art Practices and Anthropology How do anthropologists work with art groups in community-based projects? How does the collaboration challenge the disciplinary boundary? 指定閱讀: Grant H. Kester, chapter 2 & 3, in The One and The Many 建議閱讀: Thera Mjaaland. (2013). Traversing Art Practices and Anthropology: Notes on Ambiguity and Epistemological Uncertainty,” in Anthropology and Art Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| 第 8 週 | Ethnographic Method Unbound How does anthropological method respond to knowledge production? What are the innovative ways art, science, and anthropology collaborate with? 指定閱讀: Paul Rabinow. (2011). The Accompaniment, Part 1: Men of Knowledge in Search of Redemption in American Cultural Anthropology. Chicago U. P. 建議閱讀: Rupert Cox. (2013) “In Praise of Slow Motion – Caterina Pasqualino, researcher, CNRS/LAIOS, France Sky-larks: an Exploration of a Collaboration Between Art, Anthropology and Science,” in Anthropology and Art Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 第 9 週 | Curatorial Practice Guest Lecturer: Shi-yu Hsu 徐詩雨 (獨立策展人) How does art address social issues? How do we evaluate authorship in the realm of collaborative art practice? 指定閱讀: Altaf, Navjot. “Contemporary Art, Issues of Praxis, and Art-Collaboration: My Bastar Interventions and Interrogations.” In Towards New Art History: Studies in Indian Art, edited by Shivaji Panikkar, Parul Dave Mukherji, and Deeptha Achara. (New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. 2003) 建議閱讀: Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Aspen (fall/winter 1967): n.p. |
| 第 10 週 | 公共藝術 Public Art How has the idea of ‘socially engaged art’ emerged in the post-WWII era? How are key social ideas such as the state, the public, and community configured in socially engaged art? 指定閱讀: 鄭安齊 (2022)不止哀悼:如果記憶有形狀。序言+第一部「轉型的長路」 建議閱讀: Craig, Stephen. (2004). ‘Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better.’ In Public Art: A Reader, edited by Florian Matzner. 2nd rev. ed. Ostfildern, Ger.: Hatje Cantz Enwezor, Okwui. (2007). ‘The Production of Social Space as Artwork: Protocols of Community in the Work of Le Groupe Amos and Huit Facettes.’ In Collectivism after Modernism: The Art if Social Imagination after 1945. Edited by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press |
| 第 11 週 | Museums and Our Aesthetic Categories 校外參訪:Honggah Museum 鳳甲美術館, and meet with the museum Director Zoe Yeh 葉佳蓉 指定閱讀: 鄭安齊 (2022)不止哀悼:如果記憶有形狀。第二部「記得的方法」 建議閱讀: Sianne Ngai. (2015). ‘Introduction, Ch.1 The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde. Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, and Interesting Ch.2 Merely Interesting, Ch.3 The Zany Science.’ Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, and Interesting |
| 第 12 週 | 解殖與公共藝術 Decolonialization and Public Art 指定閱讀: 鄭安齊 (2022)不止哀悼:如果記憶有形狀。第三部「今日,未盡的種種」 建議閱讀: Nicholas Thomas. 2011. ‘Appropriation/Appreciation: Settler Modernism in Australia and New Zealand.’ Pp. 139-164. The Empire of Thins: Regimes of Value and Material Culture |
| 第 13 週 | Food Curatorial and Environmental Art 指定閱讀: Claire Bishop. 2005. ‘Art of the Encounter: Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics.’ Circa Art Magazine. Pp. 32-35 |
| 第 14 週 | Global Art? Is the category of global art a valid one? How do art institutes respond to the rise of art markets and artists globally? What role does the form of international biennale play in popularize global art? 指定閱讀: Danila Mayer. (2018). ‘How Global Art Came to Istanbul: The Context of the Istanbul Biennial.’ An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 74-96 建議閱讀: Thomas Fillitz. (2018) ‘Concepts of “Art World” and the Particularity of the Biennale of Dakar.’ An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Pp. 87-102 |
| 第 15 週 | Student Presentation (1) Students give oral presentation on their final paper projects. |
| 第 16 週 | Student Presentation (2) Students give oral presentation on their final paper projects. |
| 第 17 週 | 彈性教學加強週 |
| 第 18 週 | Final Exam Week #Term paper due |
1. Arnd Schneider & Christopher Wright. (2013). Anthropology and Art Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing 2. Thomas Fillitz, Paul van der Grijp eds. (2018). An Anthropology of Contemporary Art. Routledge
- 地點
- To be announced.
- 時間
- 每週四 12:00 - 13:00 或另行約定
- 聯絡方式
- 謝老師 Email: iyh206@nyu.edu