会议时间：2017年3月22—24日
会议地点：美国·洛杉矶·长滩会议娱乐中心
演讲嘉宾：刘冠，北京林业大学

摘要：Most of bog-wood is hard to be used as timber because of the debris-like, unworkable and twisted shape, but the shape which is come from a combined impact of natural environment and age, actually bestows every piece of bog-wood a unique character from a viewpoint of art, no matter its size or breed. And in ancient China, we had a strong traditional wood culture and a very distinctive understanding about wood, which mainly based on the textures, qualities and other distinguishing features, but it is fading inevitably as a consequence of modernization.

Therefore, as a designer and a scholar of Chinese art history, I try to integrate the concepts of Chinese wood tradition and contemporary aesthetic visions or practical functions by the creative use of bog-wood in modern sculpture, installation and houseware design. And with the financial support of WWDF, I carried out a series of design practice and study, which included various bog-wood based artworks and the participation of relative art exhibition. I also collaborated with other artists to explore the further using possibilities of bog-wood, and got some preliminary experiences and ideas. So this essay is not only a summary report for what I fulfilled in the artistic studies of bog-wood in the past year, but also a reference of my fresh ideas which I hope to share with all participants of the symposium and other readers.