想像人類世：臺北雙年展中的科學及其再現

Abstract

人類世是熱門的關鍵字，未來幾年有望成為正式的地質學專有名詞。它是個定義不精確的詞彙，不只如此，它還是個非具象的概念，仰賴視覺的呈現。想要具體呈現人類世，多方行動者必須用視覺的表現手法，方能展開氣候變遷政治與地球系統科學的論述。乍看之下，當代藝術只是舉辦許多同名主題展覽，無意介入政治跟科學。然而，本研究指出，當代藝術造就的視覺驚奇，正是出於人類世的不可見特質。本研究以「當代藝術如何使人類世得以可見？」為核心發問，質疑科學主義造成的隱蔽效應以及科學把藝術視為傳播工具兩點，主張展開藝術與科學的對稱性思考，探討台北雙年展近年來三屆以人類世為主題的展覽。 本研究按展覽時序來安排章節，2014年「劇烈加速度」在當時搶先以人類世為題，可是它並不像環境議題的展覽，也較少受到討論，但值得注意的是，人類世反過來改變了關係藝術；2018年「後自然」，舉辦時正逢當代藝術的人類世熱潮，主張環境危機既是科學問題，也是文化問題，並且提倡藝術的介入；2020年「你我不在同一星球上」，乃是由法國知名學者Bruno Latour與策展人搭檔合作，儘管引起科學展非藝術展之爭議，但他其實藉著展覽表達質疑，即科學視覺技術限制了人類「看見」地球的途徑。 本研究的貢獻在於從人類世可見與不可見的雙重屬性重新思考當代藝術對科學文化的回響，複雜化藝術與科學的互動，揭露科學對視覺媒介的依賴，以及藝術其實並非不介入，反而是在重置該觀看經驗。另一貢獻則是指出當代藝術展覽的公共性應納入藝術與科技社會研究（ASTS），也應更加重視藝術對科學與政治關係的批評。

The Anthropocene is an influential keyword. It is an unofficial geological term, also a non-figurative concept that relies on visual presentation. To present the Anthropocene concretely, multi-actors must use visual representations to discuss climate change politics and Earth system science. At first glance, contemporary art just holds many exhibitions with the same name and has no intention of getting involved in politics and science. However, this study points out that the visual wonder produced by contemporary art is precisely due to the invisible quality of the Anthropocene. This research focuses on "How can contemporary art make the Anthropocene visible?", questioning the concealment effect caused by scientism and science's view of art as a communication tool, advocating symmetrical thinking between art and science, and discussing the Taipei Biennale The exhibition has held three exhibitions with the theme of the Anthropocene in recent years. This study arranges the chapters according to the chronological order of the exhibitions. In 2014, "Vigorous Acceleration" was the first to focus on the Anthropocene, but it was not like an exhibition on environmental issues, and it was less discussed. However, it is worth noting that the Anthropocene is the opposite. Changed the relational art; "Post-Nature" in 2018 was held at the time of the Anthropocene boom in contemporary art, advocating that the environmental crisis is not only a scientific issue, but also a cultural issue, and advocated the intervention of art; "You and I are not on the same planet" in 2020, is a cooperation between the well-known French scholar Bruno Latour and the curator partner. Although it caused controversy that the science exhibition is not an art exhibition, he expressed doubts through the exhibition that scientific visual technology limits the way humans "see" the earth. The contribution of this study lies in rethinking contemporary art’s response to scientific culture from the perspective of the visible and invisible dual attributes of the Anthropocene, complicating the interaction between art and science, exposing the dependence of science on visual media, and the fact that art is not non-intervention, but rather This viewing experience is being reset. Another contribution is to point out that the public nature of contemporary art exhibitions should be included in the study of art and technology society (ASTS), and more attention should be paid to art's criticism of the relationship between science and politics.