How to Touch Nature: A comparative analysis of contemporary art practice influenced by Chinese Taoist culture and Western Eco-feminism

This study focuses on the attitudes and approaches to nature in contemporary art practices influenced by Eastern and Western philosophies. Chinese Taoism is concerned with the unity of mind and body, linking the whole world and seeing it as a unified universe， which is all closely linked to the Taoist view of LaoTzu, which has influenced the subsequent development of Chinese contemporary art. In Eco-feminism, nature is embodiment, cycles of birth and decay, and their embeddedness in the environment. In Relating to Nature: Eco-feminism and Deep Ecology (1994), prominent philosopher Mathews examines inconsistencies and reconciles philosophical problems. She provides a philosophical analysis of the difficulties of deep ecology that call for the merging of humans and non-humans into "undifferentiated oneness". This study will demonstrate the connection between these two very different art practices and their respective characteristics in terms of time, place and medium, in relation to my own artistic practice and personal experience of exploring nature.

This project includes several projects, each project with unique methods to respond to nature. 

Key words: Spontaneity, Unconsciousness, Mufti-species, Emptiness, Non-action