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Space and Identity

其他書名	The Works of Kerry Ann Lee, Jae Hoon Lee and Seung Yul Oh
出版	University of Auckland, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UQkeyAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis examines the work of Kerry Ann Lee, Jae Hoon Lee and Seung Yul Oh, three contemporary New Zealand artists with a shared history of migration and engagement with space in their vastly different practices. Kerry Ann Lee's handmade and digital collages combine imageries of inside/outside and Chinese/New Zealand cultures to construct hybrid spaces evocative of Homi K Bhabha's Third Space. Stemming from these spaces is an inquiry into the ambivalent and precarious arena of cultural identity, considered in this thesis in relation to the diverse manifestations of "Chineseness" as explored by Lingchei Letty Chen. Jae Hoon Lee's digital collages depict "new" spaces, created by manipulating photographic images of actual landscapes into fictional and fantastic landscapes that reflect the artist's self-proclaimed life as a cultural nomad. Built with conceptual borrowings from Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's notion of the nomad and Buddhist ideas on interconnectedness and emptiness, Lee's nomad claims to traverse multiple cultures without belonging to them. Lee's digital landscapes bear a resemblance to the European Sublime landscape genre and Korean True-View Landscape painting conventions, but remain, ultimately, his unique project to trace the journey of the nomadic artist. Lastly, Seung Yul Oh's three-dimensional objects take the physical spaces they inhabit as starting points from which they extend into institutional and imaginative spaces. In all cases, Oh's works aim to engage the audience in different degrees of interaction, from sight to physical contact, recalling Marcel Duchamp's revolutionary challenge against the definition of art, as well as Miwon Kwon's observations on the shifting ideas of site-specificity and the artist's authorship in contemporary art. Each artist's spaces reveals a concern with navigating the world: Kerry Ann Lee in asserting her cultural identity as a Chinese-New Zealander; Jae Hoon Lee in cultivating the transcendental artist; and Seung Yul Oh in redefining the relationship between the artist, the artwork and the audience.