Immersion and Interactiveness: Eco-themed Art Exhibitions and Biocultural Communication in East Asia
摘要
Biocultural communication is an important component of field environmental philosophy (FEP) and an indispensable element of biocultural conservation and restoration. This study aims to explore how eco-themed art exhibitions promote biocultural communication. We focus on exhibitions that have taken place in three countries of East Asian: China, Japan, and South Korea. As a form of contemporary biocultural communication, eco-themed art exhibitions increasingly attract the attention of ecologists, artists, and citizens. In response to the prevailing socio-ecological predicament in East Asian countries, urban artists have been actively collaborating with urban and rural communities to present eco-themed art exhibitions and to raise citizens’ awareness of and sensitivity to climate change, biocultural homogenization, and other complex socio-environmental problems Eco-themed art exhibitions, such as the Insect Exhibition in Quantum Farm in Hangzhou, China, the Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival in Shaanxi, China, Our Ecology Toward Planetary Living in Japan as well as the Gangwon International Triennale and Sea Art Festival in South Korea, are characterized by immersiveness and interactivity. Drawing on the 3Hs (co-inhabitants, Habits, and Habitats) framework of biocultural ethics, in this chapter, we explore how immersive and interactive eco-themed art exhibitions facilitate biocultural communication.