| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 藝術創意產業學系 === 103 === This research investigates into the aesthetics of indigenous tribes, which was subsidiary to tribal life and its social structure, then slowly declined with the collapse of traditional tribal system. However, from creative experiments in contemporary tribal scene, the researcher observes a new form of identification and aesthetic independency.
While analyzing how the “Floated Tribe” has influenced theself-identification of indigenous art, we observe artists who have returned to the tribe and wandered away, and realize that only by embracing both traditional culture and the irreversible change of time can we solve identity crisis. If one could acknowledge the construction of self-identification as a pluralistic, hybrid structure, a sense of confidence and belongingness naturally arises, and the long lost sense of "home-ness" returns to indigenous artists. The "Floated Tribe" emphasizes physical practice and collective labor rooted in daily life, summoning mental, spiritual and philosophical insights. The "Floated Tribe" is where the ambivalent feeling toward “home” has dominated, inspired and become the source of creative genius to contemporary indigenous artists at or far away from their home.
The quest of home, or the notion of it, has always been a vital part in the process of self identification. The unique collective consciousness of the "Floated Tribe" can also be seen in indigenous artworks of diverse forms. With collaboration, artists of our time wish to express the conflicts, collisions and transitions in their life experience through the language of art, thus re-constructing a new notion of home. “So wenig ist das Schöne zu definieren wie auf seinen Begriff zu verzichten, eine strikte Antinomie (Adorno)”Through the aesthetic theory of Adorno, this paper seeks a new form of discourse, composed with dialogs between physicality and belongingness, to describe how the process of self-identification impacts artists of the “Floated Tribe”. Finally, the art practice of the researcher also serves to illustrate the reciprocity between creativity and sense of belongingness, between inner consciousness and outward expression, which is exactly the central concern of this research.
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