- 學位論文
厭棄：Kiki Smith作品研究
Abjection: A Study of Kiki Smith’s Artworks
摘要
美國當代藝術家Kiki Smith (1954- )的作品絕大部分著重於身體與精神的連結。她相信透過對肉體的觀察與處理，可以表達內在的精神世界。將人與動物並置於同一階層看待處理，並進一步把人的內在精神層面擴大與大自然之宇宙概念對話。作品中的人物與身體排泄物質，和人類與動物的身體拼湊、轉換，此生物體內外的邊界顯露、模糊、翻轉，人類主體與動物客體的之間交互置換。從題材、材質、表現手法與展覽方式的各面向，從最直接展現主體的身體邊緣處境，到相互抽換象徵或是突破界線規則，這種挑戰身體與精神概念邊界的觀念與態度，擺盪在兩種狀態、形式或意義的對立之間，即為Kiki Smith創作至今的個人特色。Kiki Smith的創作是私密的自我探討，但以一種企圖詮釋人們共同處境的方式處理，她公開自己的私密時也悄悄反射了自我認同，這自我主體(Smith/觀眾)建立的過程，就像一場自戀的反射自照。 Julia Kristeva討論文本是主體與「母親」對話的場域，厭棄(Abjection)是如同嬰兒推離母親，推離與母體牽連而攜帶的不潔之物。排泄、嘔吐的過程即推離自身，使主體進入象徵秩序。許多評論家多以Julia Kristeva的「厭棄(Abject)」理論來分析Kiki Smith的肉體描寫作品，並且集中在詮釋身體邊緣物質為主體欲脫離母親的遺棄物質，將「厭棄」的概念規範在某些特定的關於身體物質的主題內容中。但本文嘗試將Kiki Smith自開始創作以來的個人風格中，仔細分析她如何將「厭棄」的概念成為她創作的核心理念之一，詮釋屬於Kiki Smith的「厭棄」風格。對Kiki Smith作品自從形式、內容、藝術家身分認同等各種角度。
並列摘要
Most of Kiki Smith’s, (1954-) U.S. modern artist, works emphasize on the connections between body and spirit. She is convinced that through observations and processes toward flesh, inner spiritual world can be expressed. By means of processing human beings and animals on the same scale, moreover, she means to extend human inner spirit to be able to communicate with universal concept. There are three genres in her works: characters, excretions, and combinations and transformations of human body and animal body. Divisions of creatures combined and transformed by humans and animals are appearing, obscure, and reversed. Human subjects and animal objects exchange and replace with each others.With respect to the subject matters, mediums, presentations and exhibition modes, and from directly demonstrating objects’ physical boundaries to mutually exchanging symbolizations or breaking through boundary rules, the writer Julia Kristeva considers challenging boundaries, concepts and attitudes toward confrontations in between situations, circumstances and meanings of physical and mental conditions has always been Kiki Smith’s personality in creating up to present. Her works are discussing private ego in an attempt to express common situations for all mankind. By making her privacy public, it also gently reflects her self-identity at the same time. In the process of constructing I/subject established by Smith and her viewers, it is like a self-projection of narcissism. Julia Kristeva discuss the text is conversation field of subject and”mother”, the abjection means infants push off mother, abandon unclean things attached to mother. The process of excrete and vomit is push off self, it is made subject entering Symbolic Order. Most of critists using Julia Kristeva’s Abject theory to analyze Kiki Smith’s works of the human bodys, and focused on theme of body material. This ariticle tried to analyze all of the Kiki Smith’s works(until 2009), how does she employ abjection’s concept in her creation ideology, and interpreted what is Kiki Smith’s style of abjection from forms, themes, artist’s identity.