| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 跨領域藝術研究所 === 107 === Abstract
This thesis mainly discusses my artwork ‘Mirage Field’, which is based on Kaohsiung City and explores its urban scenes of the skyscrapers. The scenes are actually far from the reality of the majority of people living here. I took pictures of the Kaohsiung skyscrapers and enclosed the landscape in hand-made soaps, developing them into a new kind of image, so as to reflect the contradictions behind the production of the landscapes. The soap is, for me, a medium as a body of my image.
Vision is a dominant sense. By using mediums to re-embody my images, I hope to expand our sensory experiences. Vision thus becomes an object that can be hold and caressed in the palm of the viewer’s hand. Mediums are treated as the thickness of the body of the image.
In the following literature review of the thesis, I discuss my works made during 2015 and 2019. My 2015 work ‘Meat Pieces’, made with bricks, cement and Poly (a sealing medium), refers to the condition of being crushed and reorganized. My 2016 series ‘Slaughterhouse’ cuts into pieces the photographs taken in a chicken and ducks slaughterhouse where I used to work, and the cut pieces are sealed in the petri dishes with Poly. And my 2018 series ‘Us’, an unmanned landscape, does not use those sealing materials and is the prototype of the ‘Mirage field’. The three mentioned series demonstrate different phases of my life and in the works my body interact with the body of my photographic images. Of the three, ‘Us’ posits more of the image itself of the urban landscape and emphasize its ‘unmanned-ness’.
From my personal perspective, my works explore the ambiguous social issues hidden in the urban landscapes. To interpret the ambiguity, I quote lines in the poems that give me similar feelings and juxtapose them with my works, stringing together my core concepts. I believe that in social issues are always encapsulated personal perceptions. My works tear the image apart and then give it a new body by using mediums. The practices and processes allow me to see more and give me a space to settle myself.
Keywords: Kaohsiung skyscrapers, Mediums, unmanned landscape
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