Opposite Aesthetics:The Ecology of Art

• Main Author: 馬月亮
• Other Authors: 李錦明
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55312064453127758028

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 美術學系 === 99 === Art influences the rhythms and patterns in time and space: life. The Arts can make a difference in the lives of the future. The impact of difference, and what kind of difference the arts can contribute to the future, is double functioning. This thesis attempts to explain the uniqueness of an aesthetic dialogue, which uses strategies in dichotomies of opposition. A German metaphor; the doppelganger, has been appropriated, to represent the situations and encounters of opposition that take place in the audiences of art history and aesthetic evolution. Aesthetics is a value of perception; it shapes the human psyche, and affects the human experience. Ultimately, aesthetics transforms patterns of information and knowledge within the ecology of art and ideas. Dichotomies of opposition are binary opposites which are located in global aesthetics and global thought. Binary opposites, such as: nature versus man, private versus public, good versus bad, man versus woman, convenience versus waste, and so on, are just some of the dichotomies of opposition in the ecosystems of thought. Binary oppositions are examples of common separation devices, and dualisms that have empowered certain apparatuses of epistemology, and thus determined certain ways of perceiving the natural world, self, community and other. Awareness to an opposite perspective, expresses conscious awareness to experiencing something in a different way. Within the experience of art, there are possibilities of potential; seeds of evolution, that can transform other “ ways of living and models of action” that can change the way we perceive the “existing real”. (Nicolas Bourriaud 13) My art is social, environmental and an interactive process that seeks Opposite Aesthetics to the conspiracies of convenience and the contradictions of power strategies.