DATA SYNTHESIS TO RESEARCH CONCEPT ON “SCULPTURE INSTALLATION : BACK TO AESTHETIC OF COMMUNITY WAY”

Abstract

Data Synthesis to Research Concept on “Sculpture Installation : Back to Aesthetic of Community Way” is part of the doctoral dissertation under the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University. The research objectives aim 1) to create a visual art related to retrospection of fade-out lacquerware wisdom, 2) to indicate a factor of the wisdom disappearance due to career change in the modern society, and 3) to present the conservation and transmission of lacquerware knowledge through art. Qualitative research is selected, including data collection of documents, field works, Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and artistic concepts including everyday objects, representation, technique as a concept and museum installation, followed by synthesis for sculpture creation. The research results show that the form could be a sign of representation of a phenomenon of career or labor movement in the present has an impact on a lack of lacquerware wisdom successors. Moreover, the concrete creative result is applying the lacquerware technique to create contemporary art, suggesting that the technique becomes the concept for preserving the knowledge of lacquerware. In addition, it is installed with the same concept as the museum to extend its significance in terms of culturally objective value and display an atmosphere of the industrial consumption in the capitalism – social change.