[PDF] Socially Engaged Public Art In East Asia eBook

Author : Meiqin Wang
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 1648894046

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This anthology elucidates the historical, global, and regional connections, as well as current manifestations, of socially engaged public art (SEPA) in East Asia. It covers case studies and theoretical inquiries on artistic practices from Hong Kong, Japan, mainland China, South Korea, and Taiwan with a focus on the period since the 2000s. It examines how public art has been employed by artists, curators, ordinary citizens, and grassroots organizations in the region to raise awareness of prevailing social problems, foster collaborations among people of varying backgrounds, establish alternative value systems and social relations, and stimulate action to advance changes in real life situations. It argues that through the endeavors of critically-minded art professionals, public art has become artivism as it ventures into an expanded field of transdisciplinary practices, a site of new possibilities where disparate domains such as aesthetics, sustainability, placemaking, social justice, and politics interact and where people work together to activate space, place, and community in a way that impacts the everyday lives of ordinary people. As the first book-length anthology on the thriving yet disparate scenes of SEPA in East Asia, it consists of eight chapters by eight authors who have well-grounded knowledge of a specific locality or localities in East Asia. In their analyses of ideas and actions, emerging from varying geographical, sociopolitical, and cultural circumstances in the region, most authors also engage with concepts and key publications from scholars which examine artistic practices striving for social intervention and public participation in different parts of the world. Although grounded in the realities of SEPA from East Asia, this book contributes to global conversations and debates concerning the evolving relationship between public art, civic politics, and society at large.

Author : Meiqin Wang
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2022-09-06
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ISBN : 9781648894602

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This anthology elucidates the historical, global, and regional connections, as well as current manifestations, of socially engaged public art (SEPA) in East Asia. It covers case studies and theoretical inquiries on artistic practices from Hong Kong, Japan, mainland China, South Korea, and Taiwan with a focus on the period since the 2000s. It examines how public art has been employed by artists, curators, ordinary citizens, and grassroots organizations in the region to raise awareness of prevailing social problems, foster collaborations among people of varying backgrounds, establish alternative value systems and social relations, and stimulate action to advance changes in real life situations. It argues that through the endeavors of critically-minded art professionals, public art has become artivism as it ventures into an expanded field of transdisciplinary practices, a site of new possibilities where disparate domains such as aesthetics, sustainability, placemaking, social justice, and politics interact and where people work together to activate space, place, and community in a way that impacts the everyday lives of ordinary people.As the first book-length anthology on the thriving yet disparate scenes of SEPA in East Asia, it consists of eight chapters by eight authors who have well-grounded knowledge of a specific locality or localities in East Asia. In their analyses of ideas and actions, emerging from varying geographical, sociopolitical, and cultural circumstances in the region, most authors also engage with concepts and key publications from scholars which examine artistic practices striving for social intervention and public participation in different parts of the world. Although grounded in the realities of SEPA from East Asia, this book contributes to global conversations and debates concerning the evolving relationship between public art, civic politics, and society at large.

Author : Vicki Sung-yeon Kwon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Art and society
ISBN :

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This dissertation examines socially engaged practices by contemporary Korean and Japanese artists who address current transnational issues in East Asia, drawing on discourses across subaltern studies, postcolonial theories, memory studies, and inter-Asia studies. When an artist travels to a specific site, geographically distant from the artist's own nation but related to it over a certain issue, what kind of relationship is generated between the artist and the local participants at the site? How does the artwork produced from these encounters present the relationship and the issue, and what effect does the artwork generate? Ultimately, how does an artwork contribute to or complicate a transnational issue? To think through these questions, I use the concepts of "contact zone," the "site" in site-specific art, socially engaged practice, and transnationalism. Each chapter explores artworks in the context of a particular transnational issue and the history of the social practice of art that developed in each nation, from the 1960s in Japan and from the 1980s in South Korea. The Introduction outlines key concepts, such as the notion of contact zone and transnationalism, transnational issues discussed in the dissertation, and socially engaged practice in East Asia in relation to the global trend of the "social turn" that emerged in the 1990s and flourished throughout the 2000s. Chapter 1 discusses South Korean artist collective Mixrice's representation of and collaboration with migrant workers from Southeast Asia in South Korea, examining Mixrice's work in relation to Minjung art and post-Minjung art, South Korea's socially engaged art in the 1980s and the 2000s. Chapter 2 discusses the possibilities and limitations of visual art in the debates between Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam over contested memories and official apologies over wartime atrocities. Case studies examine IM Heung-soon's multimedia works that represent of Korean veterans of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese victims of sexual violence, as well as Kim Seokyung and Kim Eunsung's bronze statues, which play pivotal roles in grass-roots activism seeking an official apology from Japan for its military sexual slavery during the Asia-Pacific War, whose victims are euphemistically known as "comfort women," and from South Korea for its soldiers' civilian massacres and sexual violence during the Vietnam War. Chapter 3 examines Japanese artist Koki Tanaka's experimental workshops involving participants reflecting on a community embracing conflict after disaster and exercising meaningful empathy for distant others. This case studies focuses on Tanaka's 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster and his 2019 film on Zainichi Koreans, ethnic Korean residents of Japan, in relation to the Japanese Fluxus artist practice in the 1960s and the social turn in Japanese art after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The Conclusion compares relationships between the artists and the participants in each chapter, borrowing from the concepts of allies and accomplices, terms that have been recently redefined during online activism and social justice movements. Examining the quality of each artist's relationship with their participants created in the contact zones, I relate their work and my critical arguments discussed in the chapters to discourses surrounding inclusion politics and transformative social change of today.

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262017342

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'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.

Author : Patrick Fuliang Shan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0774837810

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Statesman or warlord? Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been both hailed as China’s George Washington for his role in the country’s transition from empire to republic and condemned as a counter-revolutionary. In any list of significant modern Chinese figures, he stands in the first rank. Yet Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal sheds new light on the controversial history of this talented administrator, fearsome general, and enthusiastic modernizer. Due to his death during the civil war his actions provoked, much Chinese historiography portrays Yuan as a traitor, a usurper, and a villain. After toppling the last emperor of China, Yuan endeavoured to build dictatorial power and establish his own dynasty while serving as the first president of the new republic, eventually going so far as to declare himself emperor. Drawing on previously untapped primary sources and recent scholarship, Patrick Fuliang Shan offers a lucid, comprehensive, and critical new interpretation of Yuan’s part in shaping modern China.

Author : Junfei Tian
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :

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"In the late 20[superscript th] and early 21[superscript st] century, an interdisciplinary art idea -- social practice art -- came into sight in Europe and the Americas that has an objective to get "non-experts" involved in socio-political engagement through art with the intended outcome of social improvement. It is not restricted to one area or one art form. It coordinates its relation to environment, kinship, labor, public infrastructure and social welfare. It conducts cross-art, cross-media, cross-cultural, cross-demographics, and even cross-geographical boundaries art-making projects with the participation of the general public. Although social practice art is very young, it has already revealed its aspirations and ambitions as well. By contrast, the market of social practice art is extremely quiet and indifferent in Asian countries. One of the reasons, I believe, is that the Asian artists tend to cater to the cultural value and aesthetic orientation of mass consumption taste. The artists to a large extent do not have artistic autonomy. They are governed by many external rules and Eastern aesthetic standards. In addition, in some Asian countries with severe censorship, such as China and Singapore, an emphasis on artistic autonomy that invites so much collaboration to make art for the purpose of political change means risking state regulation and censorship. Furthermore, in Asian people's mind and especially the older generations, some activist activities that are involved in the social practice art projects have anti-statist or anti-government implications, which are considered to be evil and morally unacceptable. Therefore, the environment for developing social practice art in Asian countries is harsh because of the weak community foundation, lack of public support, and the strict state censorship. For my thesis, I analyze twelve representative social practice cases across the world to begin with, and generate some strategies that the social practice artists can use to make effective social practice art projects, which are valuable to the world or just to a small community, and enable the public to better understand and engage with the social practice art. This thesis also applies the strategies to the Asian countries. Hopefully the guidelines that this study provided will help the artists maintain good balance in the areas of aesthetic value and political message, and artists and audience's authority wherever they conduct a social practice art project."

Author : Low Sze Wee
Publisher : National Gallery Singapore
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9811419620

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A constellation of thoughts by 25 established and emerging scholars who plot the indices of modernity and locate new coordinates within the shifting landscape of art. These newly commissioned essays are accompanied by close to 200 full-colour image plates.

Author : Meiqin Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429853637

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This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China’s top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious practices of eight art professionals who assume the role of artist, critic, curator, educator, cultural entrepreneur, and social activist, among others, as they strive to expose the injustice and inequality many Chinese people have suffered, raise public awareness of pressing social and environmental problems, and invent new ways and infrastructures to support various underprivileged social groups.