物的人化与人的物化--当代舞台美术的表演

The Anthropomorphism of Objects and the Objectification of Human Beings:the Performance of Contemporary Stage Art

在当代演出艺术的舞台上,有一些大规模、大尺度的物体表演。这种表演的物体与历史上的壮观布景的差异在于:其要点不在于表现诸如山崩地裂或洪水泛滥的自然景观,而是在于对人类精神世界的揭示。物的人化、人的物化显示了当代物体表演的前景。自古以来,诗以物喻人,而当代舞台美术对于人的物化,却可以直接地用包裹、投影、雕凿、塑形、机械等傀儡化或物化手段把短暂的人与永恒的物直接融为诗化的整体,并为物体注入人的灵魂,从而使演出的精神世界得到最大限度的张扬。

There are some large-scale object performances on the stage of contemporary performance art. The performing objects are different from spectacular scenes several centuries ago. At that time spectacular scenes depicted natural phenomena like landslides, earthquakes or flooding, but the modem performing objects often reveal the spiritual world of human beings. The anthropomorphism of objects and objectification of human beings are both displayed by contemporary object performance. Ancient Chinese poems usually show human feelings through the description of objects, and in the poems human beings are not always present. In the same way, instead of directly presenting the human beings, contemporary stage art starts to use methods of puppetry or objectification, including package, projection, carving, shaping, and machinery. It thus weds the ephemeral human life and the eternal objects and renders them into a poetic whole, breathing the human soul into objects and maximizing the spark of the spiritual world of performance.