书法中的另类塑身:艺术人类学的“体行”视框

Chinese Calligraphy as Alternative Bodybuilding:An Approach to Art as Embodiment

艺术人类学的研究向来侧重于“意义（meaning）”的解释与形式“风格（style）”的分析,中国书法的研究却提供了面对艺术在社会中角色的另一种重要观看方法,亦即“体行（embodiment）”的维度.书法作为一种文化活动,其实是一项依照某种模式与文化价值来塑造身体的训练,这种特殊的身体训练同时也是中国人人格（personhood）与主体性（subjectivity）塑成的一个重要环节.“体行”的观看面向不仅将艺术从平面释放到空间及实践的宽广领域,同时也将艺术家、观赏人与社会脉络一并安置在一个有机的互动生态网中.

l:Traditionally the anthropology of art has had leanings towards the interpretation of meanings and the analysis of fonnal styles.Chinese calligraphy offers an alternative perspective on the social role of art-art as embodiment.The training process of calligraphy as a ’technique of the body’ constitutes an important element in the formation of Chinese personhood and subjectivity.On the one hand,embodiment as ’ a way of seeing’ releases:art from the constraints of a twodimensional surface and brings it to the open territory of space and practice.On the other hand,it places artists,viewers and social contexts in an ecologie mesh of organic interactions.