| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術跨域研究所 === 104 === The kindness to animals in my family, the wonderful experiences with animals, and my "officially" very first pet had formed a driving force that made me start my research of the interaction between human-beings and animals. After starting the research, I realized that the lives of animals which have been taken by human are countless. Feeling unfair, I began to study kinds of issues which were about fighting for animal rights and use these issues as my creative motivations and inspiration.
During the period of my graduate institute, I published two creation projects, "Who Born with Equal" and "Guerrilla Stickers. "In the "Who Born with Equal" project, I used the public questioning in "Graffiti Banner," the video creations in "Project Toy Dog" and practical actions in "Mix Human" to expose the most unknown evil deeds among human''s and also to stimulate audience to think about the injustice of the devide between human-beings and animals.
Among the issues of exploiting animals, animal testing is what I care about most. Therefore, in Project "Guerrilla Stickers," I pasted my self-made stickers with a bloody and cruel picture of animal testing on merchandise in order to make people realize that animal testing are everywhere around us. This project not only showed the truth to the public but also questioned whether people should be encouraged to commercialize lives with feelings and thoughts. And if so, can consumers be degenerated into consumer products like animals?
While I am producing my creations, I am becoming an animal and escape from the crowd. To me, the escape is a revolution. I often criticize systemization and culturalization because they are burdens which only human have. However, not only human should bear them, many animals are killed or influenced because of the selfishness of human. The most painful thing is that most people consider nothing about these issues, they don''t even care.
Art creators shouldn''t just bring fantastic views to the audience, we shall question the issue which we care about and refuse to be cramped with certain answers. During Project "Guerrilla Stickers," I had been obstructed by law. But if I apply to legalize the stickers, the action of regression of social system will obey my will against the system, and it will make the art creation lose the elasticity of not giving certain answers.
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