「Artists’ Link-藝術家串聯」計畫

在關係美學之後的社交藝術，以藝術家做為串聯對象

After Relational Aesthetic, Social Art takes artists as objects of linking

藝術語言從最早的古典藝術到表現主義及觀念藝術至今，藝術語彙從視覺性轉換到了哲學性，這是件了不起的進化，但1960年代的觀念藝術至今也快60年了，未來的藝術是甚麼面貌呢？根據人類生活進化的演變，我認為「社交」是未來藝術的新面貌，這個概念相近於「關係美學」卻又有別於它；關係美學只處理至點對點的關係並沒有系統的整理關係脈絡，而「Artists’ Link-藝術家串聯」此計畫，便是以藝術作為媒介從點到線再到面的整個鏈結，且每個參與者都必須提共自己的人脈於此計畫當中，再由這個計畫把抽象的社交語彙轉換成實體的新型美學體現。

Languages of Art have changed from the earliest Classical Art to Expressionism and Conceptual Art nowadays, and transformed from visual to philosophical. It was a great evolution. But it has been almost 60 years since the 1960s Conceptual art, what will the appearance of art be in the future? According to the evolution of human’s life, I think “social” is the new look of art in the future. The idea is close to but not the same as “Relational Aesthetic.” Relational Aesthetic only deals with point-to-point relationships, instead of systematically organizes the context of relationship. The “Artists’ link” project, using art as media, links from points to lines, and finally to surfaces, and it needs every participant to provide this project with one’s own social network. By this project, abstract social languages were transformed into concrete, new aesthetic forms and embodied.