The Quandary of Postmodernism

Today I went to The Wall in Kaohsiung city and found out a great many artworks right there. The artworks laid there as if the audience could get closer to them as touch the artworks without any doubts. By the way, those artworks were presented in a bizarre visual display on each indeterminate position in the field of The Wall. And I saw some children attempt to climb up the artworks as if it was their gigantic toys and their anonymous new friends. Those children on the certain artworks laughing merrily started to crawl it to and fro, playing with other kids with joyful mood. It occurred to me that those artworks are like the amusement facilities in McDonald or in KFC. Perhaps it is right, postmodernism should be displayed in this kind of way as if the distance of its artworks may get closer to the audiences more than merely exhibit right there. Still, it does not make me feel agog while watching the scene at the moment. Something may hardly expressed right from my mind since there was a thing might have been lost. In my opinion, that would be the style, perhaps which it is similar to what Walter Benjamin remarked regarding to the sense of 'aura' or the uniqueness of some certain artwork in exhibition. If postmodernist refuses to mention the soul of its works, anyone would like to tag any labels on them for their own sense of touch and vision as their own recognition in memory by virtue of private connection to the artworks. I am not sure if this situation might form a variety of discourse in certain artwork or return to the discourse separably self-contained. Or we should ask one thing of how we tolerate and then accept the differences from or with others. Just wondering.

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