• 제목/요약/키워드: Abjection

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괴물서사란 무엇인가? - 괴물서사에서 파국서사로 나아가기 위한 일곱 개의 단편 - (What Is a Monster Narrative? Seven Fragments on the Relationship between a Monster Narrative and a Catastrophic Narrative)

  • 문형준
    • 비교문화연구
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    • 제50권
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    • pp.31-51
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    • 2018
  • 우리시대에 '괴물'은 다시 전성기를 맞고 있다. 좀비, 휴머노이드, 바이러스, 외계인, 연쇄살인범 등을 다루는 수많은 '괴물서사'들이 대중을 사로잡고 있다. 이 논문은 '괴물서사'가 도대체 무엇인지를 질문하면서 괴물서사의 양상들을 점검한다. 괴물이라는 단어는 유일하고 명확한 정의를 빠져나가는 하나의 개념적 원형범주로 사용되며, 그런 의미에서 '은유'로, 아마도 오늘날 가장 익숙한 은유 중 하나로 활용된다. 괴물이 정의를 빠져나가는 이유는 수많은 괴물 형상들을 공통적으로 묶는 요소가 '기이하다, 의심스럽다, 정상이 아니다'라는 추상적 의미일 뿐이기 때문이다. 정상성과 기준을 뛰어넘는 괴물이라는 존재는 몸에서 떨어져 나오고 배설된 것을 뜻하는 비체(abjection)와 통해있다. 혐오와 공포를 생산한다는 점에서 괴물과 비체는 서로를 참조한다. 이 비체적인 것은 인간 범주 바깥의 '다른 것들'(others)을 의미하는 포스트휴먼적인 것과 일맥상통한다. 인간주의가 확립한 경계를 무너뜨리는 포스트휴머니즘이 경계의 무너짐을 나타나는 괴물에 관심을 갖는 것은 이런 점에서 당연하다. 좀비, 휴머노이드, 사이보그, 로봇 등 포스트휴먼적 존재들은 오늘날 가장 대표적인 괴물의 표상들인 것이다. 요컨대 괴물은 인간적, 인간주의적 범주를 뒤흔드는 모든 존재들이고, 괴물서사는 근대적-인간중심적-남성중심적 범주 바깥의 타자에 대한 이야기들이다. 프로이트가 '낯설은 두려움'(Das Unheimliche)이라는 용어로 말하듯이, 괴물이라는 낯선 존재들은 사실 우리에게 원초적으로 낯익고 익숙했던 것들의 회귀이기도 하다. 괴물서사가 결국 인간주의를 뒤흔들고 비판하고 극복하는 서사라는 점에서 볼 때, 오늘날 괴물서사는 '파국서사'에서 가장 전형적으로 나타난다. 파국서사가 인류 현재 문명의 몰락과 그 이후 상황을 서술하는 이야기라고 할 때, 파국서사의 이야기들은 필연적으로 현재의 가치들을 회의하거나 재사유하거나 배제하는 경향을 보인다. 파국서사와 괴물서사는 공히 인간주의적 현재를 비판하면서 그 이후를 사유하며, 이는 오늘날 생태학의 가장 중요한 개념인 인류세와 자본세가 파국서사와 연관된다는 점에서도 중요하다. 파국서사는 기존의 인간주의적 리얼리즘 서사를 넘어서는 곳에서 시작하고, 그런 점에서 그 자체로 괴물서사이며, 현재의 주요한 서사양식과 사유방식을 뒤흔든다는 점에서 괴물적 서사이기도 하다.

현대 예술의상에 표현된 조형성의 텍스트 분석 (제2보) - 1980년대 이후 서구 작가 작품을 중심으로 - (The Text Analysis of Plasticity Expressed in the Modern Art to Wear (Part II) - Focused on the West Art Works since 1980s -)

  • 서승미;양숙희
    • 한국의류학회지
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    • 제29권7호
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    • pp.926-937
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    • 2005
  • The analysis category of Art to Wear was text analyzed from the research material of 100 projects put together by fashion specialist. The conclusion of Art to Wear was comprehended the general features of it were compared and analyzed from a semiotics context. According to this analysis, the formative features of modern Art to Wear is categorized into three different dimensions from a semiotics light. The formative features of modem Art to Wear in the light of syntactic dimension was divided as an open constructed shape of Space Extension, non-typical Deformation, Geometrical Plasticity. The formative features of modem Art to Wear in the light of semantic dimension express symbolic meaning through metaphorical sign. These sign reflect the body image of the life and death and its objective of Abjection, Hybrid of discultural appearance and the image of Hyper-reality, which are features used to comprehend the inner meaning. The formative features of modem Art to Wear in the light of pragmatic dimension divided the artist emotion and meaning system delivered by Emotive Image, the Phatic Image that arouse inner signification and the Poetic Image which contain artistic and aesthetic meaning within it.

디지털시대 패션에 나타난 사이버페미니즘 연구 (제2보) -미적가치를 중심으로- (A Study of Cyberfeminism in fashion in the digital era (Part II) - Focused on aesthetic values -)

  • 김현수;양숙희
    • 한국의류학회지
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    • 제28권2호
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    • pp.200-211
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    • 2004
  • The Purpose of this study was to review the effects of the cyberspace mentality on fashion as a visible symbol of feminity and to analyze terms of its aesthetic values. As for the research methodology, relevant theories across cultures and disciplines are reviewed and an experimental study is conducted to explore spiritual objectives in cyberspace. Then, major issues facing the digital society. symbolized in the computer networks, are reviewed in terms of feminine identity and physical beauty from a feminist's viewpoint. Lastly, the aesthetic values found in the spatial meditation of a new dimension (reality versus virtuality) is comparatively analyzed. The virual reality technology and bio-medical technology are combined to be represented in fashion to create a more realistic virtual world than the real one. Such a world may well be characterized by virtuality, artificiality, masquerade, and fantasy. The intrinsic values which are revealed as psychiatrical or psychological implicated values featuring virtual or artificial implications may well be characterized by distopia, hyper, hybridity and Sur Reality.

마리나 카의 『고양이 늪』 -헤스터의 유령-되기 (Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats... : Hester's Becoming-Ghost)

  • 정문영
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제58권1호
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    • pp.69-91
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    • 2012
  • Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats.... (1998) is the last play of the trilogy of "the midlands plays" which can be regarded as her re-writing of both Euripides' Medea and J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World by resetting the two plays in the midlands of contemporary Ireland. Carr intends to courageously explore into the dangerous liminal space, i.e., the middle between the past and the present, the high Greek and the Irish folk culture, dealing with the ghosts of the dead writers for her own Irish feminist theatre. Thus, in the middle Carr can build a new Irish theatre by minorating and abjecting the Greek tragedy and subverting and expanding Synge's theatre of grotesque realism. This paper attempts to read By the Bog of Cats... as Carr's final project of exploration into the midland of Ireland to establish a new Irish feminist theatre and at the same time a new Irish folk theatre. By focusing on her strategies of minoration and subversion through grotesque imagery and carnival rituals it argues that Carr put Hester's becoming-ghost in the middle, the bog of the cats as both grave and womb, waiting for the birth of a new Irish people. And it emphasizes that the ghost of Hester, merging with the ghosts of her mother and daughter by the bog of cats will haunt the official society as a threatening abjection, challenging the restoration of the social order.

탈식민주의 관점에서 본 [괴물]의 영화적 모방과 번역의 의미 (A Post-Colonial Significance of the Mimicry and Translation in The Host)

  • 서인숙
    • 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.204-214
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    • 2011
  • 이 논문은 한국형 블록버스터로서 역대 최다 흥행 기록을 세운 영화, [괴물]을 탈식민주의 관점에서 분석해보고자 한다. [괴물]은 할리우드의 대표적 장르인 괴수 영화를 적극적으로 모방함으로서 한국 영화중에서도 할리우드 블록버스터와 유사한 면모를 많이 지닌 영화라 할 수 있다. 그러면서도 동시에 [괴물]은 미국 영향 아래 있는 현재의 한국적 식민 상황을 비판하고 조롱하는 저항 담론이 살아 있는 한국영화이기도 하다. [괴물]은 이전에 만들어진 한국형 블록버스터 영화들과는 차별화된 방식으로 모방을 식민주의에 대한 저항으로 확장시키는 탈식민적 문화번역에 성공한 영화이다. 따라서 이 논문은 영화 [괴물]이 할리우드 괴수 영화를 차용하면서도 이 차용이 단순한 흉내 내기에 머물지 않고 식민 지배를 전복시키는 탈식민적 의미작용으로 어떻게 확장되고 있는가에 역점을 둘 것이다.

조선 후기 회화에 나타난 인물 표현의 유형에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Characteristics of the Human Figure Expressed in Late Joseon Dynasty Paintings)

  • 정윤주;이순재
    • 한국의류학회지
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    • 제38권5호
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    • pp.638-653
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    • 2014
  • The structure of noble centered social status of the late Joseon Dynasty collapsed due to the commoner's higher status and increased level of consciousness caused by the growth of commerce and agriculture. In art, the a Korean and ethnical style dominated; however, with a diversity in the depiction of human figures in portraits, Buddhist paintings, genre paintings and folklore paintings. This study examines the diversity in human figures expressed in the paintings of the late Joseon Dynasty by expanding the common aesthetic fixed to the typical Joseon style of renowned painters. The conclusion of this study is as follows. The human figure is categorized into three different types of 'realistic', 'ideal', and 'distortion' based on the aesthetic category. First, the realistic type is defined literally by its realistic and detailed depiction of noble class portraits classified as extreme type and general type. The extreme type's formative element is hypersubtlety which includes a simultaneous aesthetic of aptness and ugliness. The general type shows subtlety with aesthetic of aptness. Second, the ideal type is defined by representing the standard form of time and criteria classified as beautified type, absolute type, and dignified type. Each shows a different character of gender of femininity, androgyny, and masculinity. Third, distortion types are defined by a characteristic expression of humans by transshaping the features in various methods categorized as grotesque, abjection, friendly, rustic, and caricature type. Each shows different formative elements of bizarre, patheticness, voluptuous, inartificial, and immaturity.

재미 일본인 여류작가의 경계 허물기 : 리디아 미나토야의 『설중 고승여담』과 『미의 기묘함』 (A Japanese American Female Writer's Tearing Down the Barriers: Lydia Minatoya's Talking to High Monks in the Snow and The Strangeness of Beauty.)

  • 김일구
    • 영미문화
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.1-27
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    • 2010
  • By taking the form of a fictional autobiography, a Japanese American woman writer Lydia Minatoya tries to solve the inexpressible confliction which Japanese Americans experience in their living in America. In her first published fiction, Talking to High Monks in the Snow, the writer faithfully tries to follow the Japanese I-story tradition where meandering of personal petit histories and frequent self-pities are constructed without solid action, characters and plot. Here appear many accidental others whom function as significant yet fleeting subalterns. In contrast, in the second fiction, The Strangeness of Beauty published seven years later, the I-narratives undergoes some drastic transformations by authorial intrusion, dramatic and haiku styles, and appearances of actorial agents. Just working as an invisible yet important stagehand (kuroko in Japanese) behind the stage of life, the author now handles her own self-inquiry through more controllable distance and maturity as directors or photographers often do. However, despite achieving dramatic actions and artistic elegance mainly thanks to her adoption of western masterpieces's grand narratives, Minatoya seems to stop in the midway in her tallying work of fiction with fact by delaying the larger imaginable conflict through which the temporarily gained autonomy can be turned into a disaster anytime. Nonetheless, the reader feels relieved and encouraged after recognizing the fragile Asian female self's transformation as a new, flexible and autonomous self by her unwavering contact with two contrasting cultures and providing silent minority female characters with gradually stronger and uncannier voices.

키키 스미스 작품에서 신체기호의 의미 분석과 해석 - 를 중심으로 - (A Study Meaning Analysis and Interpretation of Body Sign, Kiki Smith - On Pee Body -)

  • 김성희
    • 조형예술학연구
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    • 제10권
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    • pp.5-50
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    • 2006
  • 인간의 신체는 단순한 육체적 몸을 넘어서 온갖 삶의 역사를 담은 상징체이다. 특히 예술 표현을 위해 신체를 사용하는 수많은 예들을 통해 볼 때, 즉 예술의 대상으로서 신체를 포착하거나, 자신의 생각을 전달하기 위해 신체 행위를 드러내거나 간에 시간과 장소를 포함한 삶의 지시체와 같은 역할을 해왔다. 이러한 신체에 대한 입장은 사실 그리 오래된 관점이 아니다. 1960년대 이래 이성과 사유의 힘을 중심화 하던 모더니즘의 사유 패러다임이 쇠퇴하고 감성과 감각의 중요성이 부각되면서 오랜 동안 정신의 시녀였던 신체가 탈분화적 관점에서 하나의 실체로서 주목하게 되면서부터이다. 이는 현대미술의 흐름에서 1940년대 이후 액션페인팅(Action Painting)에서부터 신체행위의 중요성이 제기되고 1960년대 액셔니즘(Actionism)과 플럭서스(Fluxus)의 빈번한 퍼포먼스(Performance)에서 신체는 표현의 중요한 매체가 되었다. 이브 클랭(Yves Kline)의 신체와 그 흔적에 의한 개념적 작업에서 시작되어, 1970년대 본격화된 바디아트(Body Art)에서 신체는 보다 확고한 예술의 매체로 부각된다. 이후 1980년대 만개한 페미니즘(Feminism)과 1990년대 파편화되고 해체된 신체미술의 경향들로 이어졌다. 이러한 흐름에서 볼 때 신체는 지시적 의미의 단계를 넘어서 개인의 정체성으로부터 세계상을 함축하여 드러낼 수 있는 단서로 간주된다. 특히 1980년대 이후 페미니즘(Feminism)적 경향의 키키 스미스(Kiki Smith)는 신체의 확장된 의미를 제시해주는 대표적 작가들로 그들의 작품을 연구 대상으로 하게 되었다. 이러한 배경 아래 키키스미스의 작품 세계를 고찰하기 위해, 신체를 통해 의미의 지평이 열리는 객관적 방법을 모색한 결과, 기호학과 신체론에 대한 고찰이 필요하다는 사실을 인식하게 되었다. 즉 신체를 객관화하여 가장 기초적인 수준에서 표현적인 부분과 내용적인 부분을 구조적으로 나누어 그 관계에 의해 의미가 발생하게 되는 과정을 기호와 텍스트의 개념에서 시작하였다. 나아가 이 표현면과 내용면의 구조적인 결합방식을 그레마스(A. J. Greimas)의 구조의미론에서 다룸으로써 의미의 확장을 위한 토대론적 작업을 구축하였다. 한편, 신체론에서는 세계와의 관계항으로서 신체를 조망하게 해준 메를로-퐁티(Maurice Merleau-Ponty)의 현상학(Phenomenology)과 애브젝션(abjection)의 개념을 통해 해체와 파편의 신체를 전달하게 해준 줄리아 크리스테바(Julia Kristeva)의 논의가 구조의미론적 분석을 해석으로 확장시키는 데 중요한 기여를 하였다. 키키 스미스는 1980년대 중반 죽음에 대한 서사에서 시작된 이중화와 파편화의 신체로부터 상처받을 수 있는 신체의 비천함이 구체적으로 드러난 1990년대 그리고 상처의 치유에 이르는 종교와 신화로 이어지는 2000년대 이후의 과정을 보여주었다.

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포스트-미디엄과 포스트프로덕션 : 포스트모더니즘 이후 현대미술의 '동시대성(contemporaneity)' (Post-Medium and Postproduction: Contemporaneity of Contemporary Art)

  • 정연심
    • 미술이론과 현장
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    • 제14호
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    • pp.187-215
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    • 2012
  • In recent studies of art historical methodology, such as Critical Terms for Art History and The Art of Art History, subjectivity, identity, abjection, and other terms have been placed safely in the genealogy of contemporary art history. This paper questions the contemporaneity in the story of contemporary art in our time in relation to two other critical terms that have been regularly cited by contemporary critics, not only in Euro-American fields but also in Korea. The terms are postmedium and postproduction, respectively, as used by Rosalind Krauss and Nicolas Bourriaud. This paper stems from the critical condition in which art criticism and theory have their power in the rise of neo-liberalism. But this paper does not deal with the contemporary as a chronological term for art history but rather examines the three critical terms-contemporaneity, post-medium, and postproduction-that have garnered scholarly attention. I would like to put aside postmodernism for the moment; I don't disregard the postmodern condition although the death of postmodern critical terms has resulted in the loss of its polemical power in art worlds such as in exhibitions, etc. To look at "the postproduction in the age of post-medium age after postmodernism," I first explore Krauss's notion of post-medium because, unlike media artists like Lev Manovich and Peter Weibel, Krauss's post-medium condition is different and insists on medium specificity. In this sense, Krauss has turned out to be another Greenberg in disguise. For her, photography and video are expanded mediums after Greenberg, because Krauss has spent her life explicating those mediums. Under the Cup, her recent publication, came out in 2011, and discusses her desire to defend medium-specificity against the intermedia of installation art found ubiquitously in international exhibitions and biennales. Her usage of post-medium has been taken up by Weibel as postmedia in a broader sense. But whether the post-medium condition or the postmedia age, we nonetheless enter the new age of the contemporary. Consequently, this paper questions what constitutes contemporaneity in our times. It is said that there is nothing new on earth, yet I find original artistic strategies among the younger generation in the postmedia age. The contemporary justifies its place in art fields and criticism by keeping its distance from postmodernism although we still find the remnants of postmodern artistic practices and theoretical foundations. By looking at materials written by Terry Smith, I would like to examine contemporaneity as a rhetoric where artists, critics, and curators endeavor to set up a new spirit of criticism, distant from the past of modernism and postmodernism. In discussions, modernism and postmodernism act as catalysts interacting with each other while justifying their own place. In conclusion, my paper reaches to delineate where the contemporary finds its place among artists' responses and working methods. It explores the postproduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web generations, where images become data rather than representation (of modernism) and appropriation (of postmodernism). This paper analyzes Bourriaud's text, as well as relevant artists like Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick, and others. By examining the aforementioned critical terms, I would like to reconsider our own contemporary art in Korea, especially among young artists influenced by digital media and the World Wide Web in the 1990s.

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현대조각에 있어서 실재의 다중화 (Multiplification of the Reality in Contemporary Sculpture)

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    • 조형예술학연구
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    • 제12권
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    • pp.65-96
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    • 2007
  • Today, the modern art is extremely diverse. It is denying its own boundary through chaos, extreme, abjection. In fact the diversity of the modern art can be best described as questioning and challenging to the essence of the reality, rather than the artistic pursuit of the beauties. The pursuit of the reality has been a long lasting discourse since the ancient. Through the history, the reality (referent) and representation (image) has been complementing and disposing each other in a relationship of a meaningful construction until the modern times. The limit of modernistic self-reference and the emergence of the figure leads to the emergence of Post-modernism in a trend of experimenting new visual arts. The return to the figure is clearly distinguished from existing representation's system and it brought new meanings to approaches and interpretations of the reality. In the case of Pop arts of 1960's and the following the modern sculptures, which is covered by this thesis, I put an emphasis on the diversification of those via changed strategies on the reality. In a situation where the reality is dictated by signified, the modern arts can no longer stay on a classic concept of representation, rather it pursuits new system and diverse strategies. I provide three types of strategic characters of the reality and the diversification of reality: the transition of the reality. These three types can be used as a frame work, which is supporting new aspects of the modern arts in reflecting on existing system. Therefore, the reason of categorizing is to distinguish modernistic arts and post modernistic arts, and to propose new post-modernistic discourses. Adapting J.F, Lyotard's view, absence is used to trace down the diversification of the reality thorough the sublime on the deconstruction of the mega discourses and the relationship of representation. Based on H. Faster's theory of the appropriation, the appropriation is used to exemplify the strategies of visual arts are in variations and being delayed. Lastly, in the transition, J. Baudrilliard's simulacre is used in terms of the concept of post modernistic representation. Based on the core of his theories, the deconstruction of existing concepts and simulation as the post modernistic representation, and the world of hyperreality based on simulacre are explained. These allows us to deny that representation is the expression of reality through mimesis. My aim is to work on the definition of the arts and representation in the modern era, and go further from there in order to clarify meaning and extension of the modern sculptures. Now two artists are reviewed based on their own art works: George Seagal; Jeff Koons. They are selected among numerous artists from the Post Modern era. Epic contents and emphasis on daily life of Seagal's works show good examples to artists from Pop Arts and following time period and may have served as a start point for Postmodernism. Indeed, he tried to show a newly defined relationship between art works and daily life experience. On the other hand, J.Koons used the strategies of fabrication and appropriation, which shows characteristics of the postmodernism. Through his four individual exhibitions, he shows the diversification of the reality based on art works as fetishistic merchandises, and newly defined concept of Ready-made since M Duchamp. Lastly, the diversification of the reality is analyzed again in context of my art works. I focused on the return to the figure among a variety of trends of late 20 th century modern sculpture. It showed the post modernistic point of view on the reality. Post modernistic diversified strategies are adopted as a method of distinguishing each art works via the diversification of the reality. This is the result of contemporary social and cultural situations.

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