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《摄影》|一本没有任何影像的书



这是一本没有任何影像的书。

居伊德波说过,当真实的世界变成影像堆积的景观之时,影像就成了唯一真实的存在。我们创造影像、消费影像,最终也成为了影像。


黄乖儿与汪润中的《摄影》这个项目,对苏珊桑塔格著名的《论摄影》一书进行了挪用、消解及再创造,并试图由此反思和对抗(大众媒介中的)影像世界的冗余和肤浅。全书中除“photo-”为词根的词之外的文字、图像都被尽数铲除,留下了幽灵一般的文本和程式特性的痕迹。摄影在词与物的盘剥中变得模糊不定——这是一本真实存在的书还

只是一系列的摄影影像?这是对于权威文本的消解还是影像的自我宣言?




作者介绍

黄乖儿和汪润中是工作和生活于纽约的艺术家组合。他们的作品从多个领域和话题质询了本体论意义上的摄影,并探索了摄影作为当代艺术的可能性。他们一方面重视自己作为华人在国际上的文化与政治身份,并以此为出发点讨论了语言、知识、权力的全球化当代境况,另一方面又探讨了科技和社会变化影响下、逐渐溶解的现实生活与虚拟世界的边界。他们的作品使用摄影、视频、行为表演、雕塑与装置、书等多种媒介,在对艺术进行哲学和社会思考的语境基础上,挑战了人们对于摄影及其程式的预设,并质疑了日趋严重的视觉中心化社会。




际摄影(主义)


鲍德里亚在《模拟与模拟物》中说道:“……土著(在地)文化在被人类学家考察的一瞬间就已经破碎和变质了,就如同木乃伊暴露在空气中一样。”


在这个长期的研究性项目中,我们对之前的《摄影》一作品进行延伸,试图通过对论摄影一书在全球范围内的所有版本进行研究与挪用,从而对全球境况下的摄影与文化、社会之间的关系进行哲学性的探索。该项目涉及的问题在研究的过程中可能有所增减和改变,但其核心部分包括但不限于:


“photography”这个词如何在不同的语言(文化)中展开的?

以摄影为例的西方文明产物,是如何“殖民”到其他语言(文化)中并获得其合法性的?

摄影在知识图景与意识形态的塑造中的是如何生效和失效的?又是如何参与到西方文明的中心化(其他文明的边缘化)过程中的?

本体论意义上的摄影是否还存在?



黄乖儿+汪润中:摄影 / Photography

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Huang Guaier + Wang Runzhong are an artist duo based in New York City. Their work interrogates the ontological meaning of photography, as well as explores the possibilities of contemporary photography across the overlaps of multiple fields. Using various mediums including photography, video, performance, sculpture, book and digital art, they explore the cultural and political identities of Asians and Chinese in the world, and utilize them as mediations to discuss realms of language, knowledge and power structure within the current global context. Contextualizing from philosophical and political theories, their projects challenges the fundamental presumptions of photography and its apparatus, questions the increasingly ocular-centric and precarious society, and critiques the binary systems in the western academia.


Guy Debord once said, that when the real world becomes the spectacle of stacked images, imagery becomes the only thing that is real. Photography, is the exact perpetrator of this post-industrial spectacle.


Photography simulates, dismantles and re-creates the monumental work of Susan Sontag, On Photography, as nothing is left but "photo-" related words. The work acts as a ghostly shadow of the original book, leaving traces of manipulation and characteristics of the apparatus. The exploitation of words and objects makes "photography" become ambiguous - Is this a book or a series of images? Is this a self-manifesto of photography or an epitome of our age?



International Photography(Ism)


Jean Baudrillard (in Simulacra and Simulation) stated:"...This as the suggestion of the anthropologists themselves, who were seeing the indigenous people disintegrate immediately upon contact, like mummies in the open air."


In every language, "photography" means different things. In most Latin-based languages, "photography" means "drawing with light"; in Chinese, "摄影" means "capturing the shadow/light“; in Korean and Japanese, "사진술" and "写真" mean "writing of the real." Such distinguishments not only reveal the history of photography in each culture, but also a larger sense of how the philosophy of photography is proposed in various ways.


In this ongoing project, we extended the work Photography, and try to propose questions about the intricacies of photography and the world. The questions might change, decrease or increase as the project proceeds, but the essential element is to think about photography, culture and society globally and philosophically.


How does the meaning of photography unfold in various cultures?

How does photography marginalize "other" cultures as being a proxy of Eurocentric ideologies?

How does photography generate and lose meanings in the process of producing the landscape of knowledge and ideologies?

Is there even photography in our world now (ontologically)?



Huang Guaier & Wang Runzhong

Photography

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《起承:第十届三影堂摄影奖作品巡展(厦门站)》


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《起承:第十届三影堂摄影奖作品巡展(厦门站)》


展期:2018年7月6日-8月19日

9:30-17:30(周一闭馆)

主办:三影堂摄影艺术中心

地点:三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心

(厦门市集美区杏林湾营运中心,2号楼301)



《聲·影——净洋摄影个人展》


展期:2018年6月30日-7月30日

9:30-17:30(周一闭馆)

主办:三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心+3画廊

地点:三影堂厦门摄影艺术中心

(厦门市集美区杏林湾营运中心,2号楼301)



开放时间:每日9:30至17:30,免费开放,周一休息 (布展期间闭馆)

展览期间每周六日下午三点,免费导览

地址:福建省厦门市集美区杏林湾商务营运中心二号楼三楼(从三楼大平台进入)

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邮件:xiamen@threeshadows.cn

来源: 三影堂摄影艺术中心

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