Keer Zhang Research PlanPersonal feeling

First of all, I think one must be sincere to be an artist.

He/she should create with passion and true feelings from

the heart. They need to integrate themselves with their

own language patterns and time landscapes to show new

emotional awareness. And they should respect their own

feelings, intuitions and associations.

Scope and methods of study and bibliography

I want to study the global ecological crisis. I will start

from the perspective of eastern and western culture, to

analyze the measures taken by the countries under the

two kinds of cultures respectively for the global ecological

crisis. I hope I can understand and explore these in the

process of continuous experiment and creation in the

future. Because in China, there are obvious limitations in

knowledge and practice of nature as well as overall

understanding and behavior toward it, we need to base on

our own traditional culture, and combine it with the

current grim situation, to carry out analysis from a global

perspective. Reference books are: Unprecedented: Can

Civilization Survive the CO2 Crisis and Invitation to

Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective, etc. For the next

creative method, I want to use some experimental

materials, such as foam, acrylic plate, light bulb and so on.

In the process of creating experiments, I will find more and

more special materials, such as special materials from the

nature, experience the fun of experiment and learn about

my personality. Personality is the basis of richness and

diversity in social organizations, and I will protect the

development of personality in the process of creating

works.

Schedule

Stage 1: October-December: find more learning materials

about the topic to learn and summarize.

Stage 2 December-January: do field surveys to know

people’s thoughts about the topic.

Stage 3: January-July: do experimental creation.

Stage 4: July: write paper on the research topic.

The reason why I choose the major of Fine Arts

In my opinion, the primary premise of becoming an

artist who studies fine arts is to care about the social

status quo, and to reflect our life. Art is higher than life,

but it comes from life. Nowadays, the desire of social

material seems to be full of everyone’s mind. And of

course, it is also full of artists’. As individuals, people have

selfish desires, ambitions and cowardliness, which are also

the path to freedom and truth. And artists are explorers of

contemporary art.

Supplementary learning stages:Stage 1: critical theory learning

Stage 2: in-depth theoretical study combined with practice

Stage 3: realization of research and practice - graduation

project

Stage4. Find my uniqueness as an independent artist

through critical thinking and research.

Stage5. Actively explore the relationship between

experimental creation and the final work.

Stage6. Learn interdisciplinary courses and have an in-

depth understanding of the links between various

disciplines and fine arts.

Stage7. Improve my communication skills, negotiation

skills, collaboration skills and self-knowledge ability

through on-campus and off-campus innovation

cooperation.

Stage8. If possible, I will regularly display my works in

school, project space and various spaces.