| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
National Culture and Arts Foundation（NCAF）is Taiwan’s only professional organization which gives grant for the arts. It is moving into its eighth year since it was founded in 1996. It plays an influential role in the development of contemporary arts activities and creation. As a new form of arts, installation arts takes on diverse appearance and characteristic that worth our exploration and study. Meanwhile, Exhibition is a very common way of presenting artistic creations. It also carries an unique relation with installation arts. This essay thus focus on the study of the 60 solo installation art exhibitions which were supported by NCAF from 1997 to 2001.
This essay uses the approach of analyzing the quantity while categorizing quality. It first starts by explaining the target and method of study, as well as the basic definition of installation art and its interrelation with exhibitions. The second chapter focus on the analysis of quantity. It is to use the grants data given by NCAF as analyzing figures, including the number of granted projects, the amount of grants, the nature of the exhibition spaces, and the qualification of the applicants (i.e. their age and educational background), in order to study the different roles of installation art as presented in the grants by NCAF.
The third chapter focus on the categorization of quality. It is to have the 60 solo installation art exhibitions as example, to study the objects, the characteristic form of each artwork in the exhibition, as well as the subject matters of the exhibitions. And it categorizes by describing, analyzing, and interpreting. By using the four principles -“energy”, “craft”, ”assemble”, “produce”- to examine individual object in these exhibitions, the author categorizes these exhibitions into 9 categories. After analyzing the characteristic form, this study categorizes these artworks into 9 genre. And this research provides 6 frameworks to interpret these subject matters. In the conclusion, all problems dealt in this essay are reorganized, and the unsolved problems are pointed out again at the end. | en_US |