지역공동체에 기반한 공공미술 - 영국 채널 4 방송의 '빅 아트 프로젝트'를 중심으로

Abstract

This study aims to critically approach to community-based public art, focusing on the concept of community. Since the 2000s, Korea has widely performed experiments with a new type of pubic art as 'New Genre Public Art,' which encourages participation and collaboration with the community. However, governments and art organizations have rapidly imitated this new type of public art, without a critical understanding of it. Becoming aware of such trend can cause controversies, this paper tries to incorporate the theme of community into the criticism of community-based public art. In order to theoretically examine the concept of community, this paper introduces Susan Lacy's 'New Genre Public Art' and Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophical thought on community. This paper, then, analyzes how the discussions of the concept of community have evolved in Channel 4's 'Big Art Project' in England which began in 2005. Consequently, 'New Genre Public Art' constructs a unified and idealized concept of community through it's process of collaboration. Therefore, we can become sensitized to the danger of the suppression of the differences and diversity within community. Jean-Luc Nancy's thought on community, suggesting not only the impossibility of unified and complete community but also the possibility of 'we' based on partage itself may provide new possibilities for critically approaching community-based public art. Encouraging to question the very identity of the community-based public art, Nancy's philosophical investigation also helps us to rethink the possibilities and challenges that the community-based public art may be facing now. In this respect, we can uncover the philosophical implications that Nancy can offer this study.