2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Art as a tuning of the body/mind/space: a genealogy of neo-pre-modernism
Project/Area Number |
23520117
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Aesthetics/Art history
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Research Institution | Saitama University |
Principal Investigator |
TOYAMA Kikuko 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (80253128)
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Research Collaborator |
NAKAJIMA Nanako
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Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 美学 / 現代アート / 舞踊研究 / 芸能研究 / 心身変容技法 / エネルギー・アート |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Focusing on an alternative mode of art making since the 1960s, when the modernist medium-specificity lost its credibility and all the art genres became increasingly blurred, I mapped out some exemplary cases of art of "self-alterantion", that is, art as tuning of the body/mind/space. An underlying philosophy, I argued, can be traced in various ancient (premodern), and often nonwestern, ideas on bio-cosmic energy and views of nature. Among the points discussed and searched in my studies, the followings are especially worth noting; (1) I pointed out how the socially marginalized subjects such as old people, children, etc., could suggest basic conditions of the dancing body, while dance may serve as a paradigmatic case for art of self-alteration. (2) the "energetic art," a category emerging with de-materialization of art objects, could be useful to bridge some ancient ideas and contemporary art practices.
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Free Research Field |
人文学
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