英文摘要
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Graphics are similar to written texts, in which the sign system and denotations present complex intertexuality, stamped with artists' subjectivity/discourse position, and conceal specific frame and dialogue objects.The artist Hou Chun-ming was born in Liujiao, Chiayi. He was inspired by folklore arts during his college years; he released Realty Side Show (《工地秀》), and The Intestine Sutra (《大腸經》) at his Graduation Exhibition, reflecting the contradicting and deformed erotic spectacle/ performance phenomenon behind the economic miracle in Taiwan, and was then deemed as a dissentor and cast out of the exhibition venue. His then girlfriend left him when he was serving in the army. These two experiences of feeling excluded and betrayed left him traumatized. He felt this deeply after reading the mythology of ”Xing Tian” (刑天) and was aroused to combine the headless Xing Tian with Liujiao Hou shih (「六腳侯氏」)literally meaning ”Hou with Six feet”) into Self-worship/Totemic signs of creation with which he completed a series of transformed Xing Tian conceptual art works. Furthermore, he absorbed abundant energy and inspiration from folk culture, and changed his usual by-the-rule style to an analogous, exaggerating parody style, and completed a series of 18 Hou's Sou Shen Ji (《搜神記》) (In Search of the Supernatural) prints, which not only denigrated the sacred legendary characters but also mocked his own misfortune, pain, and flaws. Through ridicule and banter, the characters' status hierarchy, right-and-wrong and good-and-evil, differences were trivialized, and the absurdity of human nature was revealed.
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