Abstract

Within our twenty-first century confessional landscape, a new set of possibilities for confession has been realised which, in relation to the chronology of confessional art, expands on the political and social conditions visible in pre-millennial cultural politics. The confessional turn in postmodernity requires less of an emphasis on pre-modern frameworks of ritualised Christian confessional discourses. Taking into account the ubiquity of contemporary confessional forms (eg Facebook, Instagram, and the vlog/blogosphere), such historical terms of ritualised confession and its association to power appear almost archaic today. This article focuses on a framework of confessional art that explores a more direct mode of self-disclosure in order to examine self-representation and its relationship to subjectivity. As the boundaries between private and public space become increasingly problematised within this confessional landscape, this article posits that contemporary confessional art gives voice to displaced subjectivities to present a more complex politics of self.

摘要

在我们 21 世纪的忏悔景观中，一系列新的忏悔可能性已经实现，与忏悔艺术的年表相关，它扩展了千禧年前文化政治中可见的政治和社会条件。后现代性的忏悔转向需要较少强调仪式化的基督教忏悔话语的前现代框架。考虑到当代忏悔形式（如 Facebook、Instagram 和 vlog/博客圈）无处不在，这种仪式化忏悔的历史术语及其与权力的关联在今天看来几乎是过时的。本文重点探讨了一种忏悔艺术的框架，该框架探索了一种更直接的自我表露模式，以检验自我表现及其与主体性的关系。