To Be or Not to Be: Representing One's Inner Body through the Symbiology and Transcendence of Skin Surfaces

• Main Authors: CHANG KUANG HUI, 張光慧
• Other Authors: CRAIG A. QUINTERO
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61051578489943674639

碩士 === 實踐大學 === 時尚與媒體設計研究所碩士在職專班 === 95 === Summary The keen competition for existence stays with people. Paces in living are rapidly quickened. In the modern society, bustling, stressful, complicated and changeable, people are frustrated by stress and effect from learning, work, family, affection, mutual misunderstanding or relationship obstacles. People are impacted psychologically. This causes mental and physical depression or imbalance. Then, such symptoms or misbehavior as pressure, anger, insomnia, depression etc. come into being, which makes the ages of falling ill range wider and wider. With the affection and outlet of emotion, the researcher involves in the study of mental creation, which leads to the changes in the thinking modes of the researcher. The study starts from the targets, tools, objects and ends with the formation of projects and work. Drama has been the major and career of the researcher for a long period. It brings deep influence on the researcher's life. Therefore, the researcher believes in the fact that art offers synthesized functions as a key to different dimensions with diverse viewpoints. From the objective aspect of the relationship between art and reality in theater, there are two basic trends: an attempt to represent the practical life and that to surpass the practical life. The work " Being or Non-Being", based on the description about obsession, deals with the hair, with function of protection and decoration, and the nerve fibers, in charge with conveying messages or sensing pain, temperature or itch. The images of hair and nerve fibers build up an amplified surroundings as a stage offering a space for human beings to think with mind in it. With the nonverbal communication, the viewers, including creators, audience and characters, when facing the work, may see the medium of images and start to observe the subtlety of motion and stillness. Finally, through the immediate sight of "form", people have a clear insight into the process of being restrained and then palpitate in souls. People inspect themselves, take care of others and observe the world to seek the real ease in mind in " Ba Feng State": compliment, irony, slander, fame, profit, decline, bitterness and pleasure. Key words: drama, obsession, hair, nerve fibers, Ba Feng State