The Imagination and Manufacturing of Taiwan’s Identity

• Main Authors: I-Ya Chen, 陳逸雅
• Other Authors: 魏德樂
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64937284725685833595

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 新媒體藝術學系碩士班 === 103 === For a long time in Taiwan society, due to Taiwan’s international identity and other various subject situations suggesting the marginality of the island, there has been collective identity anxiety. Coupled with the cross-strait tense relations and the deep-rooted unequal mentality between the big country and the small country, political identity and cultural identity is a complex issue. In this paper, with the concept of "national imagination," it is attempted to escape from the narrow ethnocentrism from the "island." The sense of community is founded on hope and awakening. The island is positioned by standing outside the island instead of measuring in the center of the island. For the place the islanders have been longed for-the world, the response for the past and the contemporary situation is created to reflect a diachronic localized viewing coordinate. The works embodied an artistic political imagination and pulled out an extension of thinking for the nation in the way of association and replacement, not only reflecting the anxiety of the identities for the past but also a way of reviewing Taiwan. It more can be said to “the beginning of the idea” in the minds of the viewer to seek the coexistence way among different “imagined communities”.