圖 t ⤵u Volume 03
張般源個展 Ban-Yuan Chang solo exhibition

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《圖 t u三部曲》為臆測性的幻想世界的輪廓呈現，一個如資訊肥胖般的物化世界，並對今日信息的消化機能失調進行回應與思考，以反映當代形象與身份生產中身體形象與認同的特徵；即人作為一種訊息的殘片。

透過呈現這個物化的資訊肥胖世界，或所謂的「非敘事式代名詞世界」，思考了當代技術圖像 (數位混雜、交疊與創造)中的「殖性」(coloniality)與身體之間的政治關係。它描繪了一個敘事不斷堆疊於萬物之身的世界，像領土爭奪般將敘事強加於物化的身體，最終產生一個無敘事感官世界—一個無名未來，或既視感般的碎片化信息集合。它 (此世界)牽絆著身體景觀、身份政治、數位資本主義以及技術在自我塑造中的權力配置；然而，這既不是反烏托邦的未來預言，也不是一份政治宣言，而是作為一個碎片化訊息的集合，映射當今體形意象 (body image)的超現實懸浮狀態 (hyperreal suspension)。

相較於前兩部曲，首部曲呈現某種實驗室氛圍與第二部曲呈現某種造景的場景投射皆以類似行走於戰爭迷霧中的類比手法來呈現，第三部曲則以各種「道具」與「操作的描繪」類比呈現來勾勒這個世界觀的「碎片輪廓」。而這猶如從先前兩部曲的「迷霧」中長出什麼主體的「痕跡」。

《圖 t u》三部曲的世界過程透過多種媒介建構，包括繪畫、小說、圖鑑、虛構指南、雕塑與裝置。採用了各種配置方法，或一種類比臨時性的拼湊方法，來實踐這個臆測的幻想世界。這些涉及到我在思考體形意象的模造與生產時的疑惑，關於主體與圖像及信息之間的配置關係。這包括透過與ChatGPT協作三部曲的小說作為「共同作者」來填補這個世界的敘事，利用3D建模進行數位模擬/渲染圖像的「繪製」，並製作一本虛構的風景製造手冊或操作手冊；從這些「道具」的集合中形成一個脫離、懸浮且失重的世界。

圖 t u Trilogy engages in speculative fantasy worlds, a fragmented outline of an objectified infobesity world with the malfunction of digesting on it, as a reflection on the characteristics of identity and body image in contemporary image and identity production; human as fragment of information.

This objectified infobesity world, or a “non-narrative-like pronoun world, contemplates the political relationships between the narratives and the "coloniality" of the body in today’s technological images. It envisions a world where narratives endlessly overlay, bombarding the narrative onto object bodies like a territorial battle, resulting in a non-narrative sensory world—an untitled future or a collection of fragmented information resembling a déjà-vu-like status. It relates to body landscapes, identity politics, digital capitalism, and the power configurations of technology on self-modeling; however, it is not a prophecy of a dystopia future nor a political manifesto but taking it as a collection of fragmented information mirroring today’s hyperreal suspension of body image.

Compared to the first two volumes, where the first evokes a laboratory-like atmosphere and the second presents a scene reminiscent of a staged landscape, both using an analogue approach akin to walking through the fog of war, the third volume employs various "props" and "depictions of operations" to sketch the "fragmented outlines" of this worldview. It is as if traces of some emerging subject are growing from the "mist" of the previous two volumes.

The world process of the "圖 t u Trilogy " is constructed through various mediums such as painting, novels, field guides, sculpture, and installations. There are various configurative methods, or a kind of makeshift approach, are employed to practice this speculative fantasy world. Questions about the subject＆#039;s configuration relationship with images and information in modeling our body images are raised. This includes filling the narratives of this world through collaborating with ChatGPT as “co-author”, the “drawing” from 3D modeling digitally simulating/render images, and the production of a fictional scenery manufacture handbook or operation handbooks; forming a detached, suspended and weightless world from a collective of “props”.