Abstract.This paper explores how Chinese mixed-media painting developed materiality as a means of constructing cultural identity after the influence of Western Neo-Expressionism. While artists such as Anselm Kiefer demonstrated how materials could convey history, memory, and trauma, Chinese artists transformed this approach within their own cultural context. Materials including ink, xuan paper, mineral pigments, soil, ash, fabric, and industrial debris became more than technical tools or visual effects. Through layering, burning, cutting, and recontextualization, they express cultural memory, regional … Read more →

Abstract.In Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (SNM), audiences wander through dark hallways, chase performers across different floors, and assemble individualized interpretations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth through bodily participation and immersive engagement. Rather than positioning spectators as passive observers, the production promises audiences a high degree of autonomy and agency to physically navigate the performance environment and construct individualized interpretations of the narrative. However, this paper argues that immersive theatre presents a paradoxical form of audience autonomy. By examining … Read more →

Abstract.Installation art with technology intervention is used to present material perception and natural environmental memory through space composition, sensory interaction and embodied viewing in this paper. Based on the above research, technology can create a digital effect for installation art; at the same time, it has also altered our perception and memory of materials, light, sound, and fragments of landscape. Based on recent studies of installation art and the body, memory-oriented practice-as-research, and ecological installation work, it can be shown that embodied viewers construct meaning … Read more →

Abstract.Music psychology offers theoretical support for the improvement of music education by integrating concepts of learning, motivation, emotion, cognition and performance. This paper studies the main paths for effectively applying music psychology in actual music education. The three general places where the integration will be realised are curriculum design, teaching methods and all-round student support. Music psychology can be used to determine appropriate goals for teaching, conduct assessments, and select relevant musical works more intelligently. In addition, the internal motivation, … Read more →

Abstract.Mozart used vocal writing, characterisation, dramatic function and gendered stage conventions in these operas to create special mezzo-soprano trouser roles. Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, Idamante in Idomeneo and Annio in La clemenza di Tito are selected as typical cases of travesti casting in Mozart's operas for this study. Research has found that Mozart did not treat these roles as interchangeable male characters for women to sing; instead, he adapted each role according to the requirements of the play and changed vocal ranges and emotional expressions, … Read more →

Abstract.Profound impacts of digitalization have brought fundamental changes to curation in terms of knowledge production, organizational structure and power dynamics. The one-way discourse dominated by curators and cultural institutions in traditional curation has gradually faded away. The involvement of public participants and the intervention of technological platforms and social networks endow contemporary curatorial practices with prominent digital features, collaborative attributes and openness. This study focuses on co-curation mechanisms in the intelligent era. It first reviews the historical … Read more →

Abstract.The textile industry is advancing green transformation across the board, and sustainable apparel has stepped out of niche markets and gained public popularity. Consumer behavior is shaped by external economic factors and consumers’ inner psychology. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, this paper analyzes the internal psychological mechanisms of social aesthetics and group norms affecting sustainable clothing consumption. The sustainable fashion sector in China maintains sound development. In the consumption scenario, the aesthetic orientation of the public and the behavioral norms of … Read more →

Abstract.This article looks closely at the emotional labor artists put into contemporary relational art. Since relational aesthetics emerged, art has stopped being just something people view — it’s become a space for people to meet and connect. Yet few discussions address the emotional toll artists take on to make this happen. This article uses the concept of emotional labor proposed by Hochschild to analyze four representative practices: Rirkrit Tiravanija's gallery cooking project, Hu Yinping's town weaving collaboration with local women, Koki Tanaka's stranger collaboration experiments, and Song … Read more →

Abstract.This article mainly discusses how media reporting should balance the protection of celebrities' privacy rights and the genuine public interest in cases involving personal privacy information and public curiosity. The article holds that the celebrity status may reduce the privacy expectations in truly relevant public interest matters, but this does not justify unrestricted intrusion into private life. The article studies and references several cases such as Campbell v MGN, Von Hannover v Germany, Murray v Express Newspaper,etc.,distinguishes public interests from public curiosity, and advocates … Read more →