Since the industrial revolution in the 18th century, changes in the manufacturing system have influenced and shaped our life, and have further led to a shift in social and cultural thinking. After WWI, this force of change has accelerated people’s life pattern and influenced the manifestations of art as they come from life. Among them, sculpture, which highlights three-dimensional space through materials, is an artistic manifestation that touches life and embodies social changes the most. Therefore, it is hoped that by comparing different regions such as Taiwan, Japan, Europe and the US, this force that affects the world and the representation of sculpture can be explored from a more diverse perspective. In line with the debut of Ju Ming’s new work Taichi Series–Taich Arch made of ancient buried wood, the 2019 Juming Museum International Academic Conference on Sculpting Art: The Multifaceted Meanings of Sculpture After WWI revolves around “tree” metaphors and aims to explore how sculpture has been like an ancient tree, continuing its core idea while developing and transforming in new directions after WWI. The growth of a tree symbolizes the past, present, and future of sculpture while the material and technical concepts derived from wood allow us to look at the influence of social change on the mode of production. The conference proposes three different sub-topics: from “History: Development of Sculpture after WWI” that explores how the impact of an era has shaped the different looks of sculpture to “Media: Resonance in Heterogeneity” that focuses on the changes of sculptural materials, techniques, and forms after WWI, and to “Space: Definition and Liberation of Sculpture” that reexamines the transition and diversity of the term “sculpture”.
研討會時間： 2019年10月19-20日（六-日） Sat.-Sun., October 19-20, 2019
