Summary Reflection

Over all I feel this course readings have been very insightful. It enlightens me and helps me reaffirm some topics about art and art making.
The main points from the 5 readings I gather are:
- Neo-Traditional = A new modern traditional. Shih Yun’s (SY) artworks have taken a (traditional) abstract painting, transformed into something both modern and traditional.
- Intestinal space: Its importance and impacts. Cause the formation of a hybrid. SY works are a hybrid.
- How social imagination affects society. Society aspires to be original but gets sold out by commercialism. SY may involuntarily contribute to the rising demand of commercialism.
- Gentrification = An urban renewal process that have impact and implications in which the art industry plays a part. As there are not available contextual art works with relation to this, I decided to use her experience in getting a studio space in Singapore.
- The purpose of art making and how it affects human relationships. SY do not consciously create contextual art.
Overall, the readings portray negative connotations like art disintegrating or art affecting society. SY may have unintentionally contributed to some of the points mentioned in the readings but I believe she doesn’t mean to do harm or is a ‘bad’ artist. Thus I would like to sum everything up by reflecting this question, “What makes a bad Artist? Why so?”