中国的“白匣子”辩论——对于“特定场域艺术”的管理

The ‘White-Box’ Debate in China:the Management of ‘Site-Specific Art’

本文反思了当代中国语境下艺术与设计之间的复杂关系,特别是在特定场域艺术中的表现。本文通过两个具体项目的案例研究,探讨了在中国当代艺术实践中,架上绘画与平面设计、雕塑与建筑、新媒体艺术与广告等职业艺术教育中形成的一些传统对立是如何被侵蚀的。这不仅关系到产品的形式和质量("艺术"与"工艺"或"应用"),还关系到高与低、作为天职与工具主义的专业、艺术与商业及其更广泛的社会和文化确认之间的关系。

This paper reflects on the complex relationship between art and design in the contemporary Chinese context,specifically,how this plays out within site-specific art.Informed by two case studies of site-specific projects,the paper looks how some of the traditional oppositions established in vocational arts education—between easel painting and graphic design,sculpture and architecture,new media art and advertising—are being eroded by contemporary art practice in China.This concerns not just the forms and qualities of the products(‘art versus‘craft’or‘applied’)but the relationship between high and low,vocation as calling and instrumentalism,art and commerce,and their wider social and cultural validation.