藝術介入社群：社會參與式的美學與藝術實踐   全文下載

Art Intervention into the Community: A Socially Engaged Aesthetics and Art Practice

自1960年代以來自今，由於觀念藝術與社會雕塑的理論的影響，當代藝術家以其創作表達了其對社會情境的看法與意識型態，並開始挑戰傳統的藝術生產的模式，藝術離開其無目的性、美學的無利害性，走出與社會脈動隔絕的孤立角色，改變了藝術家與其觀眾的關係，也帶來了藝術介入社群的創作實踐。本文旨在探討此過程的發展、藝術創作的觀念、背景，以及其所引發的社會參與式藝術實踐如何介入社群與公眾生活之關係的美學基礎與相關議題。本文首先討論在當代藝術的潮流中「藝術介入社群」之觀念體系及產生的時代背景。本文的第二部分將提出對當前國外及台灣在藝術介入社群的發展的趨勢觀察及其所帶來的影響的幾個面向的探討，包括人與人/人與空間/人與環境的對話、對文化與社會脈絡的反省、其所帶來的文化創意產業的開發以及跨領域的合作。藝術介入社群具體的擴大了藝術影響的範疇，不僅帶來了更多藝術的解放和自由、人與人的聯結，也打破了藝術與生活的藩籬，使藝術的生產成為社群生活的表達。

Since the 1960s, with the influence of Conceptual Art and the Theory of Social Sculpture as explored by German artist Joseph Beuys, more and more artists have undertaken to express their socio-cultural concerns. They have challenged conventional views about art and have thus subverted its supposedly non-purposive aesthetic nature that was thought to have no connection with the social world. The idea of bringing art back into its social context has also changed the relationship between artists and viewers, and has made art to intervene into the community.
This article first gives an account of how the idea of socially engaged practices has developed in the context of contemporary art; its background, the concepts behind, and how such practices constitute a body of interventions into community life and its public. The second part of the article observes and reflects on the current practices of artistic interventions into the community. The process and effects of these practices are akin to those of a dialogue that brings together people, space, and environment in a way that it reflects the specific socio-cultural context of the community. Importantly, such interventions foster the creative development of the cultural industry as well as interdisciplinary collaborations that expand the field of art practices. Artistic intervention into the community is not only for artists to use the socio-cultural context as a medium for their art; its transformative power also seeks to connect to and involve a wider audience to be equally creative. This is where the production of art becomes the expression of community life.