아이웨이웨이(艾未未)는 어떻게신(艾神)이 되었나?

Abstract

According to each of different context, how could we approach AiWeiwei as a person who received complex cultural status? Overseaspress, Chinese press, overseas art world and Chinese art world,global art market, and various mass media are reproducing AiWeiwei based on each ideological position and commercialmechanism. Ai Weiwei, represented by various reproduction powers,can be said to be a phenomenon. This research aimed at investigating the relation between AiWeiwei and these reproduction powers, e.g. western press, Chinesepress, blog (including works), knowledge authority (criticism) andcitizen authority (fan club), based on Ai Weiwei who is highlightedas a cultural phenomenon by emerging as no.1 human of influencein the global art world in the complex interests with thegovernment power, mass media, cultural authority, and productmarket during the recent years, and intending to reflectivelyintrospecting cultural phenomenon interpretation which meanwhilehad been adaptively received by the dominant paradigm by tryingintegrated interpretation on each sight suggested by them. Particularly, in the situation that China related information poursin globally and the distorted essence is expressed according to the intention of reproduction powers in various tendencies, it would bea significant and important work to investigate Ai Weiwei as acultural phenomenon in the aspect of culture research, based onthe relation between him and the reproduction power surroundinghim, mainly with Ai Weiwei as a phenomenon.