本文將探討中國當代女性藝術家之性別主體形構，其中之性別意識脈動，以及由之而產生的重新性別化創作風格。而此一性別重現的共同脈絡與歷史機轉，約自1990年代中期起，開始具體影響著後社會主義中國之女性創作者的生命史與藝術創造，並賦予了女性藝術家更大的創作與主體意識建構的空間。於研究與經驗資料詮釋上，本文將以實際的田野調查訪談以及相關的文獻資料為主軸，嘗試對上述之主體意識形構，及其藝術風格的形塑過程，作厚實描繪與性別政治分析。並期望瞭解女性藝術家本身作為實踐與意識的主體，是如何回應此一重性別化的歷史轉變，以及在普遍男性優勢的社會脈絡與藝術世界中，如何作出自己的抉擇，以及抉擇內在的性別意涵。
女性藝術家、當代藝術、生命史、後社會主義中國、性別意識
This article shall explore the formation of gender subject for Chinese contemporary female artists, especially development of their gender consciousness as well as the derived recreation of re-gendering artistic styles. The common context and historical turn for reemergence of gender-awareness started around mid 1990's which began the course of concretely affecting the life history and artistic creation for Chinese female creators in Post-socialist China. Simultaneously, this entrusted with female artists a larger space of creation and construction for gender identification. In both aspects of research and empirical data interpretation, through practical field survey and make use of relevant literature, this article shall try to conduct gender politics analysis and thick description to above formation process of gender consciousness and respective artistic styles. Moreover, this article expects to understand how the female artists, in the position of subject in practicing and thinking, respond to the historical turn of re-genderization. This research also wants to know, in the social context and art world of prevalent male domination, how they made the choices for themselves as well as the significance of gender implications behind these choices.
female artists, contemporary art, life history, post-socialist china, gender consciousness
