戰事 War

戰事 War

三張攝影 Three photographs, 2008

This photograph series is taken in a park in Pingzhen, Taoyuan. The tank made in the Korean War is now discarded and stored in the park as sculptures. The artist uses lighting techniques in filmmaking and transforms the park into a theatre stage. Photography in this work is not used to summon the past of tanks but to respond to the war and fictional language in film and games, etc.

這系列的攝影作品拍攝於桃園中壢的龍岡大操場，這裡停放了冷戰時期所生產的M48巴頓戰車，這些戰車是在1973年被中華民國政府接收而來到台灣，如今戰車已廢棄，擺放在操場中如同雕塑品一般。當年的冷戰情勢在今日成為了觀光的題材，同時也大量的出現在電影、電玩等娛樂媒體中，藝術家採用電影式的燈光設置，將這現實場景翻轉為一個戲劇舞台。攝影中所召喚的並不是這廢棄戰車過去的歷史，而是今日當它化身為消費產物後，所轉化而成的戰爭科幻題材的語境。