原載：http://hkvisualartsyearbook.org/details/7656
作者 : 文晶瑩
作者 : 文晶瑩
藝術和生活的距離大大縮窄，甚麼都可以是藝術，那怎樣才算是好的社區／社群藝術？美學標準何在？如何評核？如何推進？社區／社群藝術都傾向正面，比較容易集結人社群，省思社會的問題，尋找以較民主的手法達致滿足快樂的效果。這些美好的抗爭可以是改變社會的方法，亦可以是社區／社群藝術的美學：一種追求民主、公義、平等、博愛和自由的美學。
社區／社群藝術、美學標準、連結性的美學、鄰里關係、處理爭議、藝術家作為引動者、快樂抗爭
*作者為香港城市大學創意媒體學院助理教授。此文章的部分研究得到香港城市大學的資助。
*作者為香港城市大學創意媒體學院助理教授。此文章的部分研究得到香港城市大學的資助。
Exploring The Aesthetic of Hong Kong Community Arts
Author : Man Ching-ying Phoebe
Nowadays, the gap between arts and everyday lives is narrowing. When it comes to the arts, everything goes. But what makes good community arts? What are the aesthetic standards? How can we assess it? How can it be developed? Community arts is believed to possess the positive power to unite people and inspire them to reflect on social issues as well as to seek out more democratic ways to attain happiness. All these acts of joyous resistance do not only change the society, but they can also be considered as an aesthetics of community arts: an aesthetics of the pursuit of democracy, justice, equality, fraternity and freedom.
Community art, common aesthetics standard, connective aesthetics, inter-neighbor relations, handling controversies, art practitioners as animators, joyous resistance
Man Ching-ying Phoebe is Assistant Professor of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. The research of this article was partially supported by a grant awarded by City University of Hong Kong.