傳統工藝的博物館展示與詮釋

The Exhibition and Interpretation of the Traditional Craft in the Contemporary Museum

黃宗源(Chung-Yuan Huang)

指導教授 ： 江韶瑩

國立臺北藝術大學/文化資源學院/傳統藝術研究所工藝美術組/碩士(2006年)

摘要

傳統工藝之題材與其物件在原存社會文化中具有某些重要的意義與價值，經
過某種途徑由原存的文化脈絡中被抽離出來，進入博物館場域，而博物館採取何
種態度與情境重新置入進行傳統工藝及其物件的傳譯與再脈絡化的過程，以達成
展示的目的，是為本文所著重的問題；然而傳統工藝之生態並非是已成為過去，
而是持續發生與變遷的過程。博物館展示既是一種文化展現，亦是對文化的反
思，工藝價值與意義之呈現取決於展示詮釋及策略運作，在不同的博物館展示領
域中，傳統工藝站在什麼位置？或者，博物館展示也在界定著「何謂傳統工
藝？」，進而在展示過程中，是否建立了某種社會價值體系以達成展示目的。
本論文之研究目的在於試圖整理與建構一個傳統工藝展示的詮釋概念，首先
討論博物館展示以及展示的詮釋，將展示視為是一種詮釋的過程，討論關於物件
詮釋、展示化以及展示的再現過程；其次探討傳統工藝的概念以及相關領域的解
釋，這將是博物館展示l詮釋主體，面對傳統工藝′被詮釋的客體時首先接收與處
理的訊息一無論是否為博物館接受；再者，就展示中呈現的各種再現形式、表達
意涵與文化展現來檢視傳統工藝在不同詮釋觀點與手法的運用下，建構出何種文
化面向。本文以兩個實際的展示案例為理論探討之驗證，其一為日本大阪國立民
族學博物館之特展「來自アイヌ的訊息--工藝與心靈」為例，針對策展機制之運
作如何影響展示概念的成形，以及該展所界定的傳統工藝如何在展示的過程中呈
現文化上的意義與價值進行分析；其次為國立傳統藝術中心展示館之「傳藝典藏
菁華展」，從策展的角度探討展示的操作在面對具有主題性的典藏品時，策略形
成與運作的方法。
傳統工藝在博物館展示中，透過對人類文化行為產物的詮釋而達成的，工藝
既然蘊含豐富的文化訊息，透過博物館展示的行為，自然被賦予了一些必要的任
務與主張，因此，博物館展示基本上仍然必須在一個不斷交錯驗證過程，來面對
與關心傳統工藝的詮釋。

關鍵字

博物綰 ； 展示 ； 傳統工藝 ； 詮釋

並列摘要

The subject matters and the objects of the traditional craft carry some significance and value from
its contextual world. Through certain approaches they are detached from original context and are
brought into the field of the museum; as for meeting the exhibit purpose, the attitude and the situation
the museum has offered to translate and re-contextualize these objects become the stressed problem
consciousness of this paper. Nevertheless, the organism of the traditional craft never dies; it is just
experiencing a consecutive process of happening and changing．The museum exhibition is not only a
cultural performance but a reflection upon the culture itself the meaning and value of the craft depend
on what interpretative strategies for exhibits will be employed on it and how they are practiced; that is,
within different disciplines of museum exhibition, on what position should the traditional craft be
settled? Or the museum exhibition itself has also affiliated with the coinage of the so-called "tradition
craft" and thus has established or reinforced certain socio-axiological system through exhibits.
In an attempt this paper aims at organizing and shaping a conception of interpretation for the
exhibition of the traditional craft. Firstly, it concerns the museum exhibition and its interpretation
toward exhibits; rendering exhibition an interpretative process, it inquires into the phenomena of object
interpretation, exhibitionization and representation in exhibits. Next it will turn to re-examine the
conception of the traditional craft and its definition from related fields; this is the first encounter stage
for museum as an exhibiting and interpreting subject vis-a-vis traditional craft as an interpreted
object-whether the museum takes it or not. Furthermore, it regards the various types of representation,
ideology and cultural performance in exhibits as a symptom and evaluates how the traditional craft will
be constructed in light of different interpretative viewpoints and devices. With two case
studies-"Message from the Ainu: Craft and Spirit" from National Museum of Ethnology Osaka,
Japan一as example it illustrates how the mechanism of exhibit strategies works upon the shaping of the
exhibition concept and How the cultural significance and the value of the museum-nominated
traditional craft will be analyzed through the exhibition and moreover, in "Classic Collection for
Traditional Arts" from National Center for Traditional Art, from the angle of exhibit planning it discuss
how the exhibit strategies are shaped and carried out in a thematic exhibit for a classic collection of
traditional crafts.
The traditional craft in museum exhibition is always accomplished through the cultural product of
human interpretation; imbued with abundant meanings the traditional craft should be granted with
certain mission and opinion from museum exhibition. Therefore, basically the museum exhibition is
still a cross verification process--facing and caring for the interpretative potentials of the traditional
craft.

並列關鍵字

museum ； exhibition ； traditional craft ； interpretation

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