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觀看權力的方式:改變社會的21世紀藝術行動指南

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●約翰.伯格《觀看的方式》的21世紀更新版!
●在當今這個攏絡想像力的混亂世界中,揭開21世紀當代藝術中權力迷霧的重要之作!
●藝術是否依然具有力量?文化是否還可當作武器?

你是否在城市街頭看過以文字與圖樣奪人眼球的塗鴉創作?塗鴉以明目張膽的越矩行為,表達對城市的聲音。然而當塗鴉藝術出現在商業廣告、政府甚至為了抑止塗鴉而指定一個合法創作區域,大家逐漸忽略塗鴉本質概念中的顛覆性格,我們又該如何看待自己熱愛的塗鴉藝術?

在當代,一個藝術展覽、一場行動主義運動,甚至是一本刊物的誕生,背後往往隱含著諸多難以說清的政治、金錢、權力之間等等複雜關係,我們如何拆解藝術與行動主義運動之間暗藏在多方的角力?這是我們理解當代藝術的一個重要角度。

二〇〇九年,美國的藝術家傑瑞米.戴勒(Jeremy Deller)以藝術創作計畫《就是這樣:開講伊拉克(It is What it is : Conversation about Iraq)》,將一部分的伊拉克戰爭帶到美國。他與退伍軍人、伊拉克難民藝術家,帶著一輛在巴格達攻擊中炸毀的廢棄汽車,從紐約巡迴到洛杉磯,沿途展開對話,讓公眾對擁有一場經驗性、而非僅只是說教式的邂逅。人們會在參觀後談起自己與戰爭的經驗:退伍軍人訴說著路邊的炸單、在基爾庫克(Kirkut)的戰鬥,以及歸鄉後的抑鬱症;軍人的伴侶、雙親會說起自己的親人;伊拉克人、阿拉伯人和黑人穆斯林談論起自身的恐懼——來自於反恐戰爭期間對伊斯蘭教日益嚴重的偏執情況。然而,這是「藝術」嗎?還是「行動主義」呢?這其中政治立場又是什麼?

先會觀看,才能辨識,進而才能提出評價。作者納托.湯普森身為當代藝術表現形式的捍衛者、美國當下最受讚譽的年輕策展人和藝評家之一,致力闡述投入藝術和行動主義的藝術家們,該如何看穿當代藝術的意義、其中的權力關係,以及在滲透進藝術中的資本主義邏輯,藝術家要如何找到自己的聲音,並做出改變?他從當今活躍的藝術家與行動主義者的一些最創新有趣作品,與那些賦予社群去觀看且重新想像權力的實驗場,展開了一場別開生面的討論。

二〇一〇年代左右起,世界各地陸續發生多場社會運動,從「阿拉伯之春」、「歐洲夏季」、「占領華爾街」,再到之後台灣的「318太陽花運動」、香港的「和平佔中」,從這些運動中皆可看到當代藝術介入社會與政治的痕跡。《觀看權力的方式:改變社會的21世紀藝術行動指南》正是試圖帶領我們揭開當代藝術與權力交纏不清的迷霧,對藝術介入政治的方式與藝術世界中的權力關係進行思辯。

唯有我們能夠掌握「觀看權力」的方式,才能正視權力中的複雜性,並找出超越的可能。

158 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2012

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Nato Thompson

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NATO THOMPSON is an author and curator. He has written two books of non-fiction Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everday Life (2017) and Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2016) both with Melville House Publishing. His self-published fiction book, Marshsong came out in February 2019. He has also edited and written for many art catalogues. He works as the Sueyun and Gene Locks Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary.

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"On either side of the political spectrum we find a population increasingly convinced that there is a conspiracy of power against them. (And they are right!) We are dealing with a rapid dismantling of our capacity to trust what we hear, and in that wasteland we find the only reasonable outcome: radical paranoia.

The erosion of trust in an era of vast paranoia is of no small consequence. For what we are truly discussing behind the shroud of television, radio, film, internet and public relations is an ongoing war on meaning itself.

If people can no longer trust what is being said—if they can summarily dismiss all points of fact—then, after a while, we find ourselves in a Tower of Babel moment. Politics and social life depend greatly on the capacity to communicate, and the ongoing manipulation of meaning has begun to radically erode that bond."
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Brillant! The Didactic/ Ambiguous perspectives & tropes within activist art was clarifying.
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August 11, 2023
偶有啟發,但藝術圈那種用深奧繁複的語句重新包裝簡單概念及描述的裝逼習氣盡顯,廢話太多(理論上的老生常談與語句上的冗詞贅字皆然;當然翻譯也有鍋)看得好痛苦。花大篇幅重新講一遍大家都知道的事(機構掌握權力etc),案例少而簡略,根本本末倒置。展書前對本書能提供豐富實務經歷跟理論如何印證、相輔相成的期望落空,只能說作者沒能發揮身為該領域先驅策展人的價值。
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