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Abstract The center of Taiwanese culture is in temples instead of public cultural centers across Taiwan. Temple architecture, carvings, paintings, calligraphy and embroideries are common art displays; temple squares are museums, outdoor theaters are festivals in communities, and mobile performances (for example, Yizhen) along streets are “Taiwanese Mobile Theaters”. Since the participation of the Wang boat touring around Donggang border in 2011, I strongly sensed the attraction of traditional folk art. Moreover, I saw the meaning behind the continuation of traditional culture and religious decorations of Yizhen. By utilizing creations to discuss the possibilities between religious art and modern art, and to break the hierarchy relation between both, I use the perspective of Fu, Bi, Xing to see religious decorations, to find interesting shapes of decorations and to appropriate them into modern art. There are five chapters in this essay. In the first chapter, a description of creation background, the sources of inspiration and research structure are addressed. The second chapter centers around the introduction of the Taiwanese folk art, features of Taiwanese religious decorations, an analysis of modern appropriation arts, and finally a description of the religious decorations’ influence on my creations and the development of my series of art for the past three years. In the third chapter, I explain the creation idea of “Yizhen Theater” and the perspective of Fu, Bi, Xing to analyze religious decorations by using the modern methods to appropriate them into my art. In the Fourth chapter, different series of “Yizhen Theater” are illustrated, and the traditional religious decorations are used to create modern visual image art; the goal is to take installation art as the performative method to present compositive 3D art. In the last chapter, to conclude the above, an alternative performance type of religious art is provided by presenting the method of composition between traditional and modern interdisciplinary arts to the continuous content of religious art.
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