UAL 倫敦藝術大學碩士小論文／ 題目：政治與維權藝術論文作品 / 作者：謝竣騏JUN QI XIE

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Political activist art ‘’POLITICS ‘’ POLITICS’’ ’’

Producer/Editor Mr. Future（JUN QI XIE） Design by Mr. Future Ma Design for Art Direction in London.

My work includes the fine art, illustration, architecture and graphic design Powers You can find some work on Instagram @_mr.future_ All essay illustration and photo by Mr. Future Amber202190309@gmail.com @_mr.future_ Taiwan Print out in London 2019 Future ISSUES ZINE no.1

Political activist art How does activist art influence politics and human rights?

Why activist art is important to influence political and human rights?

Human rights is an issue that has always existed in the world. There are historical traces about human rights issues in each era. Human rights can also cover a very wide range. It may be the effects of war or social issues.

They are all possible starting points for the human rights revolution. Such as action artist Ai Wei Wei stated that everything is art, everything is politics.

(Ai, 2013).

Action rights protection art is also the voice of many artists on human rights.

They use the most direct artistic method to express their response to social issues. They also try to make some criticisms of the current social situation. All are the value of rights protection art. Different factors, such as regions, have also produced different artistic techniques to fight for human rights. This thesis will have three main topics about the artist's response to an expression of human rights.

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The first part is about the tripartite relationship between human rights, art and politics. Political factors affect the impact of political issues on human rights on art.

The second part will analyze the creative methods of artists at different times and regions, how artists use their works or actions to remind the current government that they must change or remind many issues that have been forgotten, and analyze the performance methods of artists in different countries, such as the Berlin Wall graffiti art The art of conflict, the Spanish war painting Picasso's Guernica, and the Chinese activist artist Ai Wei wei's action art illustrate the artistic appearance of human rights issues.

The third part will analyze and explain whether there has been a direct response to human rights issues after the advent of rights-protection art, or that rights-protection art has positive or negative consequences for society, whether the artistic behavior has achieved the desired effect of the artist, or whether the artist created the work to obtain What responses, does the art of human rights action have a practical impact on the structure of society?

The above three points are the main discussion angles of this paper. This zine also contains some of my illustration works to respond to and talk with the arts of rights protection.

Illustration is a process of my art record and construct a new dialogue method with this issue.

with Peace Future Xie 2019 London

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Relationship on human rights, art form and politics

Politics and human rights Art can be linked to each other due to some circumstances, and human rights are affected by various political factors.

Some of the human rights may have women's rights. Children's rights.

Work rights. Residence rights are included in human rights related systems. It may come from the effects of lack of political nature, such as war, economic damage, political struggles within the country, etc. ... Many political factors may be the starting point of the impact of human rights. What is the value of human rights? According to the Human Rights of Politics stated that all people's creation is equal, and their creators give them certain inalienable rights, including life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

To ensure these rights, the government is established among the people, and legitimate power comes from the consent of the governed. If any form of government undermines these ends, the people have the right to change or abolish it. (Vincent,2012) The artist's work will construct some new languages because of the influence of politics or the current society to promote or remind the lack of the current society or government.

The artistic language may have paintings, graffiti, video or action art, etc. It is not a direct right or wrong response to speak out of inequality or unreasonable circumstances, but a critical way of expressing the current society to express the language that the artist does not agree with.

However, what is the difference between political art and the critical movement and radicalism that propagates realism? Radicalism does not consider its impact on the public but directly destroys society, while art must be related to certain situations or human rights issues and It must be the result of an artistic study of public affairs. Because political art must not only establish isolated work for the people or situations of the moment, but also establish new relationships between where people are and certain situations. (Klanten, 2011) When there are some revolutionary issues in the two parts of politics and human rights, art has become a necessary outlet. The significance of art lies in the fact that the creator makes a new topic for some current situations after research to make it more different. People in the field can see languages other than politics, and art is a role of transition and reminder of political human rights issues. Politics affects human rights issues. Artists find issues and use art to influence politics. Dialogues between the three also have different methods or languages due to the times. Changes in the times will change important factors in artistic practices.

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Artistic Techniques and artists how can represent their Critical Thinking Political art always has many faces in the world, due to various factors such as temporal background and environment will affect the methods of artists or producers. There may be paintings, posters, videos, etc. and actions completed by their own activities or actions. art. Each technique has its own unique artistic language to express a voice on political or social issues. This voice is not determined by right or wrong, but a voice of an artist on society that makes many people think about the current society one step closer. The environment, as the artist Hermann Josef Hack said, is that my job is to get people interested in political issues so that they can figure it out for themselves. Only art can restore people's development potential.

This means that creative behavior is not performed only by the artist; the audience connects the work with the outside world by deciphering and explaining the inherent conditions of the art and contributes its own power from the creative behavior.

(Klanten, 2011) Because sometimes social issues such as human rights issues are easily overlooked or people think that their own power is small, they choose not to respond to any political issues.

Therefore, if an artist constructs a power, he reminds people not to Forget some issues, many issues continue to exist that should not be forgotten, and sometimes political artistic expression is not the current situation, but the artist tries to remind many past issues that have been forgotten by the world. Human rights issues are often the subject of political art pursuit or struggle.

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For example, Pablo Picasso's Guernica is a quite representative work of a very political human rights issue, talking about the Hitler bomber attack of May 1937 and almost destroying the grid of the Basque cultural and traditional centre for centuries. Less than a week after the town of Vernicle, Pablo Picasso drew his first sketches with a pencil and completed this important painting of the Spanish-German war a few months later.

(Arnheim, 1962) Pablo Picasso also stated that his art or painting is not only a work, but also a representative research or experiment. (Arnheim, 1962).

This passage can contain many factors and may be research about the sound of the times may be an experiment to try to change the old look of the times. At that time, the background of the war made it necessary for artists to use their own creative sounds to issue some criticisms or declarations to society, which can be seen in Picasso Guernica paintings A large number of people, flames, animals, and many cubists ruptured structures, each pattern represents Picasso's means or shouting for the political background of the war of the times.

The political state factor requires artists to publish works to make a political or national critique. That critique is not just a work of art, it is a record, an experiment of critique, and a critical language of society.

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According to Picasso’s GUERNICA states that the essence of Guernica's work is not about Picasso itself, but about the conditions of the current world.

(Arnheim, 1962). Artists' creations often come from the interweaving of life. In their own country, they face a relatively serious point in time. A creator may see the state that the country needs to change. It is not good or bad, but a voice.

Guernica the work is a creative voice of the war record, a reminder to the government, and respect for human rights.

Many artists use the work to speak for human rights for freedom, and Guernica also warns of human rights for war.

The Berlin Wall art in Germany is also representative of the representative political art of human rights. The Berlin Wall was construction began in 1961, the wall would divide the city until 1989.

(IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS website, 2019) The establishment of the Berlin Wall allowed a country to be divided directly into two, and there was no choice in the names of East and West Germany. Forced to become two countries directly, because of the political relationship, people have no choice. Many artists also began to express their voices for human rights on the wall because of the establishment of the Berlin Wall, a rational response for human rights and a voice for freedom.

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At that time, so-called street artists such as Thierry Noir and other representative artists had voiced human rights in Germany at the Berlin Wall.

Thierry Noir in 1982 1 Came to Berlin in January. In April 1984, Nova started painting Wall for Berlin, and was considered the first artist to do so.

(Noir website, 2019) Noir's artistic act was a truly revolutionary act: painting the Berlin Wall, transforming it, making it ridiculous, and helping to destroy the Berlin Wall, which eventually collapsed in 1989. Noir painted bright colors on the walls of more than 3 meters in Berlin. He painted the iconic, bright, seemingly harmless works of language on this deadly border, symbolizing the only resistance to action and the freedom of voice. (Noir website, 2019) It is absolutely forbidden to paint on the walls. It was built 3 meters from the official border, so East German soldiers could arrest anyone standing near it. Because he saw political issues in Germany and human rights issues after the war, he knew he had to create. : As Noir stated, "I only work for sorrow." (Noir website, 2019) Noir's achievements and unique visual language are widely known in the world-renowned culture and are immortal. Today, Noir is increasingly seen as an important artist in the modern street art movement. Noir's work emphasizes lines and reduces form to the most basic elements. This simplicity reflects his need to quickly paint outdoors in dangerous environments, as his artistic behavior carries considerable risks. (Noir website, 2019) Noir responded to his environment. Even though he knew that it was a dangerous process, he still tried to express his view of the environment with colorful artwork and made artistic critical thinking to criticize the government.

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Ai Wei wei, a Chinese artist in Asia, is also a representative political behavior artist. He pursues and explores the freedom of human rights, freedom of speech and political freedom in China.

He uses his own video records, blogs and other multimedia composite arts to present him. On the language of human rights issues, he has also been arrested many times in China because it is not acceptable to talk about politics in China.

This is also Ai Wei wei ’s conflict of political human rights freedom. He mentioned in the book that you put me in danger. If we speak together, the Chinese government will certainly hear the voice of the people, but the Chinese people have given up the value of protecting human rights, so I can only face the dangerous situation alone. (Ai, 2013). Chinese artist Ai Wei wei always challenges China's most sensitive issues. How can he continue to maintain his motivation for survival and creation? So what are the artists thinking about a political artistic creation in order to get a response?

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Explain art behaviour has been a reflective response to human rights issues or a positive or negative effect on society since the advent of human rights arts

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9 However, everything always has a different face, and politics and art will not have a single facet. They are always interconnected. In many cases, political factors are sometimes the starting point of revolution or destruction, and revolutionary destruction may also be creation.

The beginning of everything has its own reasons, and the aesthetic significance of the political revolution will also have different values due to generations, artist experiences, and so on. Many artists who have created works on political human rights issues may wish to have the same expectations, that is, a language or feedback on the current world or society, the results of the works also greatly affect the response to social issues, too much fierce criticism Sexual action art sometimes causes the artist's own danger.

For example, Ai Wei wei was imprisoned by the Chinese government due to his work, but he continued to record this imprisonment process as another political artwork. When he began to think about the so-called Before action art is effective, the more important thing is to think about why artists should speak up for these political issues. (Obrist, 2016) Perhaps this is the more important thinking factor. The result of the work and the aesthetic right and wrong are very subjective responses.But more importantly is whether the process of art evokes the relationship between some artists and ordinary people,

such as Picasso's Guernica. This work does indeed evoke a voice of war human rights for the Spaniards or Germans, but it may be universal People do not understand the painting itself (for example, why do you want to paint cows, why do you want to paint flames, why do you want to paint three-dimensionally?)

(Arnheim, 1962) For the average person is meaningless existence, works in humans do not understand the art of Picasso but perhaps a picture on the theme of art he left behind was a historical wounds answer.

Ai Wei wei's art method is so radical. In the positive direction, he immediately received a lot of support and attention. Ai Wei wei's works also quite directly show that he wants to fight for the artistic goal of human rights. Maybe more people start to think about the political human rights issues he raised There are problems, but his artistic approach relatively puts himself in danger. (Obrist, 2016) He sacrificed his human rights to fight for them, but he created them in a way that the public fully understood and directly. Both Picasso and Ai Wei wei speak for human rights issues, but the artistic methods are peaceful and fierce. There is no answer, no right, no wrong, or absolute. They just continue to use themselves. Unique ways to face the world they expect, which is also the existence of artists, because artists themselves are extremely sensitive to discover problems in the surrounding environment, so they decided to speak up on some issues (they also have enough identity to allow more people See neglected issues), and let more people think about whether there is a problem in the current society, perhaps this part of the artistic stage is more important than the work.

10 So how to look at the effect of the artwork result, to be more objective, as a political human rights art, we must establish a work from a more macro perspective, that is, we must more objectively find social problems in the work. The work itself will not be reduced to a rather personal critique; such political art will be relatively weak. As the above case analysis shows, artists even think that political art sometimes does not care about the final appearance of the work, but when they build a work, and makes many people think and ponder some issues forgotten by society, and try to use art Process to remind that there are many serious issues that continue to be forgotten. Perhaps this reminder process is the most important element and essence of political art. What the artists are trying to create is not the art object itself, but rather a thought process. A thoughtful process.

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Conclusion After analyzing the definition of human rights and artistic methods in the case of the above paper, the art of the impact of politics on human rights is explained. The existence value of political art will always exist in the world. Some countries have existing politics, and politics and related human rights issues will only produce different issues due to changes in the times.

Art forms also create different methods because of changes in time. However, many social human rights issues are still forgotten. Political artists will continue to speak for some issues. As a creator's position, human rights issues in many eras are closely related to us. Ignoring the issue is giving up one's own survival. And the right to freedom, Ai We iwei also said that many people have given up the opportunity to protect their rights. (Ai, 2013) The existence of art is to criticize social issues from an aesthetic perspective. There are no scoring standards for artistic methods and artistic aesthetics, but they stand in many fierce in a political environment, any fierce artistic technique is more beautiful than losing human rights and freedoms. Many questions about human rights are sometimes overlooked more often, and the art of human rights protection is bound to continue.

This is also a way to continuously remind people not to ignore human rights issues. Art may be just a beginning or a pioneer.

More importantly, it is hoped that more people will have Participate in this process or face more interested in political significance. Don't think that your strength is extremely small and give up the opportunity to fight for it. All the small strengths can be more powerful. Any small strength is a small change in society. people's response power is more powerful than we think. with peace Jun QI London 2019

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