Sea-Centric Socially Engaged Art: Exploring Intercultural Flows and Dialogues in Kuroshio Currents

Abstract

<p>自2019年開始的跨國計畫「海洋中心形式的社會參與式藝術：批判思考與重新想像黑潮地帶間的文化交流」，試圖透過跨領域藝術的共創，由藝術工作者、研究者以及跨國孩童們的參與合作，連結人們與海洋有關的故事。本文之研究目的在探討透過參與式藝術創作，來喚起關於人與人、人類與黑潮文化地帶、海洋物種之間「真實關係的建構」與「有形、無形的連結和社群共感」的跨文化交流，轉化為對海洋環境的關懷之歷程，本文對此計畫在台灣漁光島和日本沖繩的實踐提出觀察與反思。期許這個以海洋為中心的社會參與式藝術計畫，不僅是對當前歐美學者觀點的延伸思考，更提出亞洲獨特的脈絡與重要貢獻，其所凸顯的是在亞際文化激盪之間與真實關係的經歷下所獨具的藝術生產、傳遞溝通與世代傳承的能力。</p> <p> </p><p>Since 2019, the international project “Sea-centric Forms of Socially Engaged Art (SEA): Critical Re-Imagination of Intercultural Flow in the Kuroshio Current” has attempted to instill interdisciplinary art collaboration by artists, researchers, and children from different countries to bring together people’s stories about the ocean. The purpose of this paper is to explore how the project, by introducing participatory art creation, has facilitated the “building of real relationships,” whether tangible or intangible, as well as cross-cultural "community empathy" that has transformed into care for the marine environment. This paper observes and analyses the implementation process of this sea-centered socially engaged art project. It critically reflects on the extent to which the project not simply applies views put forward by European and American scholars, but also offers a uniquely important contribution within its own context. Through the experience of real relationship induced by socially-engaged art practice, the project highlights the inter-Asian cultural flow as well as creates the unique power for artistic productions, modes of communication and transmission to be passed on across generations.</p> <p> </p>