Forum on Community Arts 2016
Forum on Community Arts & Heritage Preservation
社群藝術論壇2016
社群藝術論壇：文化保育
The concept of “community arts” can be traced back to the 1960s, when the artists reflected on the meaning of art. Should arts be trapped by the walls of the museums? Could arts communicate with the citizens outside the walls? Could art respond to or even change the society? The thoughts of the pioneers took us away from the art that was just meant for the elites, instead, they believed that art should empower the underprivileged and bring in breeze for social change. Some of them practiced art as a means to cultural preservation, such as the marginalized indigenous culture, the natural ecosystem torn apart by development, the community culture threatened by modernization, etc. Today, the importance of inheritance and preservation of the culture of marginalized community is getting into the eyes of the public, there are more and more people getting involved in promoting community arts as cultural preservation, throughout the world.
The lists of artists, community worker and scholars, both local and overseas, working within the fields of community arts, are invited with honor. Overseas guests include Mr. Dan BARON COHEN (Brazil), Prof. SU Yao-hua (Taiwan) and Miss Camylla ALVES (Brazil). They will share with us local and overseas cases of how community arts preserve the culture. There are also workshops sharing different methods of practicing community arts as a way of preservation. We hope that it will put our heads together and facilitate the communication between the industry and the public.
「社群藝術」的概念源於1960年代，當時藝術家反思藝術的意義：是否只能受困於博物館的四壁？能否與殿堂以外的街坊互動？能否回應甚或改變社會？先行者的思考，使藝術不再只供精英賞玩，而具有為弱勢社群充權、革新社會風氣的積極意義。其中，有以藝術作文化保育，例如日漸被邊緣化的原住民文化、因肆意開發而遭破壞的自然生態、受現代化影響面臨瓦解的社區文化，等等。今日，社會大眾普遍比從前關心邊緣社群的文化承傳和保育，有志於以社群藝術作文化保育的人亦越來越多，遍及世界各地。
主辦單位特意邀請本地及海外投身社群藝術和文化保育的藝術工作者、社區工作者及學者，其中外地講者包括：Dan BARON COHEN（巴西）、蘇瑤華（台灣）、Camylla ALVES（巴西），分享外地及本地以社群藝術實踐文化保育的案例。另特設工作坊講授以不同形式之社群藝術作保育的方法，希望能夠促進業界和公眾人士的交流，集思廣益。
論壇日程 Programme Schedule
Keynote Speech 主題演講
Community University of the Rivers: Cultivating transformative arts-based pedagogies in formal education in the Amazon.
社區河域大學：在亞馬遜的正規教育中發展轉化藝術為本的教學法
Mr. Dan Baron Cohen
(Community University of Rivers, Brazil 巴西河域社區大學)
This presentation reveals the challenges of pedagogical survival and innovation on the thresholds between a paradigm of market-based, formal education in deep crisis, and an emerging paradigm of eco-cultural community-based formation, in the very specific geopolitical context of the present industrialization of the Brazilian Amazon. Through a series of videos produced with the young arts educator-coordinators of the project, the presentation will describe and reflect on the arts-rich inter-subjective pedagogical culture that defines this independent initiative, as a network of connected knowledges and potentials, and as a multiple intervention within ‘high-school’ and federal university education, and within a deeply conservative afro-indigenous riverside, urban, former fishing community.
這報告將探討教育學生存與擴展界限的挑戰。在今天正在工業化的巴西亞馬遜，其相當獨特的地理政治背景下，巿場為本的傳統教育模式正面臨重大危機，而新興的生態文化及社區為本教育模式正在形成。透過一系列由年輕藝術教育協作人為計劃拍攝的影片，將展現及反思這種帶著豐富藝術的互為主體性的教學文化，如何定義其中的獨立自主性。這樣的教學文化，在非常保守的非裔原住民河畔、城巿及從前的漁民社區中，既是一個連結知識和潛能的網絡，也是對高中與聯邦大學教育的多方面介入。
In addition to questioning established and progressive educational relations between teacher-pupil and between generations through the evocation of dialogic practices which place the young person as co-researcher, co-creator of knowledge and mediator between past and future values and narratives, the presentation also evaluates the educational significance and potential of cultural practices such as community kite-making, traditional-contemporary dance, collective percussion, and video-storytelling through mobile-phones, as ethical and socioeconomic formation of excluded young people as the makers of new or renewed ‘schools’ and new communities of ‘choice’.
報告將會對現行與進步的師生教育關係提出疑問，當中跨世代間的對話嘗試，如何使年輕人成為合作研究及創造知識的人，成為過去與未來的價值及敍述的中介。除此以外，報告亦會評價文化實踐在教學上的重要性及潛能，例如社區風箏製作、傳統—現代舞蹈、集體敲擊、以手機拍攝影像說故事等。被社會排除的年輕人們在創造新的或再生的「學校」時，在他們建立新的「有選擇」的社區時，上述的活動能協助建構他們的道德及社會經濟學。
Above all, the presentation reflects on these challenges and potentials through post- colonial and self-decolonizing multiple experiences of ‘indifferent’ fatalism about the future, an accelerating disintegration of ‘the social’ into atomized sleepless addicts of social networks, and a reflexive experimentation with sexual identity. These powerful, consuming and ‘silent’ dimensions of ‘formation’, ‘peer-education’ and ‘pedagogic coordination’, permeate all the spaces within formal and popular education, and seem to be characterized by an inarticulate excess of visceral knowledge and poverty of theory.
最重要的，是這報告反思在後殖民與自我解殖的過程中的挑戰及可能性。這其中包括冷漠的對未來的宿命論、社會急速分解及原子化下出現大量無眠的社交網絡沉迷者、以及具反思性的性別認同實驗。這些在「構成」、「同輩教育」及、「教學協作」內強勁的、消費性的、沉默的面向，滲透正式及大眾教育之中，常會有一種難以言說的直覺的、感性的知識與理論的貧乏。
Set on the banks of the River Tocantins, about to be irreversibly transformed into a river highway and vast hydroelectric dam, the learning and teaching dramas on this Amazonian threshold acquire a compelling relevance.
托坎廷斯河的河岸，即將被改變成高速公路與大型水力發電站，在這亞馬遜區域中發生的教與學的戲劇，發展出引人注目的相聯性。
09.04.2016 | 11:15-12:00
Lecture Theatre 2, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
香港中文大學康本國際學術園2號演講廳
Contemplating Socially Engaged Art: Perspective at the Founding of Treasure Hill Artist Village
寶藏巖國際藝術村創建啟動的社會參與藝術
Prof. Su Yao-hua 蘇瑤華教授
(Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan 台灣天主教輔仁大學)
10.04.2016 | 10:30-11:15
Lecture Theatre 3, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
香港中文大學康本國際學術園3號演講廳