意義迷陣裡的權力與暴力：作為當代藝術的新紀實攝影話語——以《煉》與《野想》為例

Power and Violence Manufactured in a Labyrinth of Meaning: Photographic Discourses in New Documentary as Contemporary Art–Reading The Chain and Wild Aspirations: The Yellow Sheep River Project

This essay studies how the construction of meaning and the discursive power could be created through a critical analysis of artistic discourses in, and around, the new photo-documentary works by Chang Chien-chi and Chou Ching-hui. It investigates what and how meaning, power and ‘violence' are jointly produced by not just the photographic works per se but also artistic rhetoric from photographers, their critics, the media, art museum, and the monographs, despite their sometimes discrepant opinions. The essay argues that the joint effort, although not necessarily an act of intended complicity, nevertheless establishes a territory of discursive power that appears to have an essence of violence in meaning.