Locating the Self: In Search for the Contemporary Southern Taiwanese Painting Identity

• Main Authors: Ma, Hsien-Yu, 馬嫻育
• Other Authors: Hsieh Hong-Chung, Huang Bu-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84843808297696760456

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 藝術研究所 === 85 === Locating the self: In Search for the Contemporary Southern Taiwanese Painting IdentityAbstract This thesis combines ''local studies'' and ''identity theory'', and uses ''deconstructionism'' to examine contemporary painting art in Southern Taiwan.We attempt to challenge the current searching for ''local identity'' in contemporary art and question the possibility of a perfect representation of the localized art identity. To study postmodern art phenomena, we must first discard the possession of an essence in our construction of local art phenomena. In addition, we must direct attention to the development of contemporary art occurring in Taiwan. Using the concept of ''triangular anxiety'', this research attempts to explain why the art critics and cultural researchers can not determine the territory of an art phenomenon. Moreover, by looking at the relationship between ''context-text-intention'', we can see how artists interact with their social context, natural environment and time. Using personal interviews to gather information enables us to understand the cultivation of the Southern Taiwanese painting identity and its resistance against outside labeling. Unlike traditional fieldwork, which transcribed answers as data, this research adopts narrative analysis for analyzing them. No presupposed position was taken prior to and during the research process; instead, we relied on conversations to gather the life-styles, creating ways, and beliefs about art from fourteen southern Taiwanese painters. The narrated reveals the narrators situated at the current art context in Southern Taiwan.Keywords: Southern Taiwan; Local identity; Contemporary art; Narrative analysis