当代视觉艺术消费:老年人的身份构建

The Consumption of Contemporary Visual Art:Identity formation in Late Adulthood

本文考察了老年人对第六届英国艺术展的反应,英国艺术展展示了英国当代视觉艺术的最新发展成果。第一组受访者参加了两次"与艺术家面对面"讲座,第二组则参加了艺术家工作室活动,他们将自己从展览中得到的灵感付诸实践,创造出自己的作品。我们使用身份构建方面的理论框架对结果进行了分析,分析表明,受访者使用了展览提供的资源以在他们的社会环境中构建自我身份,但他们构建自我身份的能力受到个体在欣赏当代视觉艺术时主体和客观结构之间关系的影响。本文认为,构建自我身份的过程可以让个体对其所在的社会环境有控制力,从而为个体带来幸福感。

This paper examines the responses of older people to the British Art Show6, which is an exhibition of recent developments in contemporary visual art in the UK. One group of respondents attended two ＂meet the artist talks＂ and a second group attended an artist-led workshop where they produced work that had been stimulated by the exhibition. The focus groups that resulted were analysed using theoretical frameworks related to identity construction. The analysis demonstrated that respondents were using the resources of the exhibition to construct identity positions in response to their social contexts. However, their ability to do this was governed by how the relationship between agency and structure played out for individuals in their engagement with contemporary visual art. It is suggested that wellbeing originates from the control such a process might give individuals over their social environment.