文化艺术中的当代亚洲

Speaking of Contemporary Asia in Culture and Art Cautiously...

文章通过对1990年代以来的东亚当代艺术实践发展方向的讨论,指出在过去20年间出现的话语中,东亚已经逐渐被视为是工业的、资本的以及都市的并且投入到狂热的发展中,工业、资本和都市被当代东亚艺术家几乎如圣歌般地咏唱着。尽管当代/后现代艺术形式似乎是当代全球艺术的基础,却无法让我们理解“全球”艺术的历史,而经济发展给予我们发现自我并探寻当代亚洲艺术和艺术实践源流的机会。

Tracing the evolution of East Asian contemporary art practices since the 990s, the article points out that in the discourses that have emerged over the past two decades East Asia has increasingly become viewed as ndustrial, capitalist, urban and committed to frenetic development, with all three mentioned celements ontributing to what is almost a mantra to be intoned by those who wish to represent contemporary East Asian cultural dimensions. If contemporary/postmodern art forms seem to be the basis for a seemingly global art now, this n itself does not give us an understanding of global＂ art history. It is the economic development that gives us an opportunity to know＂ the composition of our ＂selves＂ better and to answer the questions of how an earlier modernism absorbed into modern Japanese and Chinese art was transformed into contemporary Asian art and art practices.