艺术的事件之维——以艺术定义的扩容为中心

The Event Dimension of Art:Focusing on the Expansion of the Definition of Art

“事件”(event)是当下哲学、社会学研究中的重要概念,近来有不断向文艺研究领域移用的趋势,借以指涉文本/艺术在时空中生成、展开的不稳定状态。由于当代艺术具有高度的展演性,表现出剧场化、关系化和语境化倾向,依托于物质性建构起的艺术理论在回应艺术定义与评价等问题上愈显乏力,亟需开辟新的阐述空间。因此,把“事件”作为分析工具引入艺术研究,除揭示艺术被长期遮蔽的事件层面之外,亦可厘清将多样的媒介、行动、观念、情境整合到“艺术”名下的基础艺术是事件性与物质性的统一。艺术定义在事件维度的扩容,推动着艺术研究在视角与方法上的新一轮重塑。

“Event”as a current notion is of great significance to the contemporary study of philosophy and sociology.In recent years,an inevitable trend for research field of literary and art is that“event”starts to refer to the instability of the nascence and evolution of text/artwork in time and space.The theory of art which relies on material structure is unable to deal with some crucial problems like how to give the definition and evaluation of art a response because of theatricalization,relationalization and contextualization in contemporary art's high performativity.Therefore,new territories desperately need to be pioneered for“events”as an analytical tool in the study of art,which means such amelioration can reveal the level of events that have been hidden for a long time,and can also crystalize a fundamental concept simultaneously,that is to say,the foundation of integrating various media,actions,concepts,and situations under the name of“art”is the unity of eventness and materiality in art.The expansion of the definition of art in the event dimension facilitates a new round of remodeling of perspectives and methods in the study of art.