'This edited international collection of nine essays and twelve contemporary artists' work considers the complexities of the contemporary hybrid life experiences shared by so many of us in the twenty-first century. It explores the themes of diaspora, identity and the sense of belonging, considering what a beautiful life is like in a world in which domestic or international relocation is constant and how we experience memory, nostalgia and changing lives in the twenty-first century. In detail, it explores a range of themes such as the promise of cosmopolitanism, the dystopian and evanescent quality of Chinese art, a series of Documenta exhibitions, native nationalism and authenticity in Asian art, and working with an arts-based participatory methodology to conduct ethnographic, biographical forms of research.' - Ming Turner, excerpt from the Introduction

Includes bibliographical references, artists' statements and biographies, and contributors' biographies.

這本集結9篇國際學者與12位國際藝術家之專書，探討21世紀中，許多人所歷經關於當代生命交雜之複雜性。本書探索的議題包含離散美學、認同、歸屬感，及同時討論在當今移居（不論國內或國際）是個頻繁的社會現象之際，我們如何審視21世紀之記憶、鄉愁，與多變的生命感。 本書討論的一系列主題包括世界主義（cosmopolitanism）之承諾、當代中國藝術裡的無助感與短暫特質、德國文件大展、亞洲藝術裡的國族主義與純粹性、以藝術為本質且以參與方式來探討民族學、自傳形式之藝術研究。（摘自序）