University of Sydney

Graduate Student, Sydney College of the Arts - Visual Arts

Sydney College of the Arts

Thesis Title: Expressing contemporary artforms under the transcultural sun

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Transcultural aesthetics in contemporary art practice is often perceived and experienced today in a variety of ways.  Its task allows us a better understanding and interpretation of world aesthetic qualities in the light of human experience.  This critical enquiry affectively enables their meaning in art to be developed, appreciated and assessed.  Such aesthetic quality is said to be emergent and dialectical, in the continuing dialogue between the unity traditions and the art practitioners and world. 
    Investigation of transcultural aesthetics probes alongside this fresh understanding of the discourses and actions of World Art contemporary art practitioner in the twentieth first century artworld.  It asks how significant artforms and aesthetic traditions are centred on it were to the art practitioners.  As a mediator-praxis, art practitioner was inevitably drawn to the transcultural artforms of unity.  Their intention concerns the presence in consciousness, and this in itself impels art practitioners to establish a transcultural dialogue. Their actions in the artforms can be read as part of a common theme of time and space, and of the human aspiration for brighter artistic endeavours.   
    Central to the multi-perspectival approach of critique is the questioning of a world aesthetics community that seeks to embody a state of transculturality in contemporary culture, and in their artform offers a wider universality of art and aesthetics for a greater appreciation for their plurality.  This understanding of the importance of the unity traditions to World Art contemporary art practitioners, not only provides us a receptor to understand the overarching vision behind their transcultural aesthetics, can also illuminates us with the key to penetrate the enigma of who the contemporary art practitioners thought they were.




About P.A. TANCHIO: 

Best known for his multi-layered paintings/drawings/artforms, Paul TANCHIO transforms the everyday subjects into conceptually rich images. Life size to intimate framed lyrical abstract representation of figures, landscapes and objects explore themes such as the nature of historical and intercultural mass-produced domestic artifacts; the architectural and the liturgical politics of ideas, sexual identity and power.  Tanchio has exhibited in Berkeley, San Francisco, Singapore and Sydney. Some works are in the collections of the United Overseas Bank and homes of private collectors.

Awards include the Golden Key International Honours Society membership for outstanding scholastic achievement and excellence; the University of California (Berkeley) Exchange Scholarship, NSW; the UOB Painting of the Year Award; and a grant from the Fauvette Loureiro Scholarship.

Born in Singapore, Tanchio received his BVA (Hons), Visual Arts and Art Practice, from Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. Currently, Tanchio is a PhD candidate in Fine Art and Theoretical Enquiry at the University of Sydney. His research interests include art philosophy and aesthetics, metaphysics and visual culture within the contexts of Asia-Pacific and world histories, and its influence on artforms. He is also working on the continuing project on a Nishidian theory of art practice. He lives and works in Sydney and Singapore.

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