本文大致分為兩部分，第一部分從羅蘭・巴特談論照片的專書《明室》開始，以刺點與知面的兩種觀看為基礎，討論在刺點的觀看裡觀看者的內部變化，引入德勒茲將身體視為流變的存在的觀點，將羅蘭・巴特視為偶發事件的刺點與德勒茲的「事件」概念接軌，說明刺點的觀看中的無意義，以及觀看者在觀看中的流變。第二是關於刺點中我們同時感受到的純粹感覺，這部分以德勒茲談論繪畫時說到的直接於身體上作用的感覺為基礎，以及在影像上製造感覺形象的方法。並以攝影師荒木經惟的作品和創作方式為例，說明攝影具有拍攝感覺的優越性。並以此歸類出一條與一般紀錄社會共識和知識的攝影不同的，拍攝感覺和無意義的攝影路線。 / This thesis is mainly divided into two portions: The first one begins with the discussion of La Chambre Claire by Roland Barthes, in which he bases the two ways of seeing upon punctum and studium. While elaborating on the inner becoming of the spectator in Barthes’ notion of punctum, I complicate this idea with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of becoming. Deleuze stresses on the body as the event of the being of becoming, which can be connected to Barthes’ punctum as a contingent event. The combination of Barthes and Deleuze helps explicate on the nonsense inherent in punctum and the process of becoming inside the spectator. The second is concerned with the pure sensation integral to punctum. I appropriate Deleuze’s insight on how art affects directly on the body to produce sensation in order to discuss how photography can create the Figure. And we through the illustrations of Araki Nobuyoshi’s photo images and his creative method. In conclusion, I propose that photography is the superior form in capturing sensation, and suggest that, photography has another function, which different from the function of documenting social consensus and knowledge, it does function to capture sensations and nonsense.

Mémoire en recherche-création. / Ce mémoire de recherche-création contient deux parties : un essai écrit, « Failure may be your style » et un long-métrage documentaire, Loin. Le documentaire à la première personne est un genre qui peut s’élargir à la vidéo en général, car les deux manifestent une subjectivité et ressemblent à la forme de l’essai par leurs aspects fragmentaires et incohérents. L’échec, ou le ratage, est un élément essentiel de cette branche du cinéma, car il permet d’émouvoir et de montrer ce qui aurait pu être jeté, ce qui se situe normalement hors-champs et hors-cinéma, ce qui crée des formes de punctum cinématographiques. L’autobiographie et l’autoethnographie peuvent alors se mélanger à la fiction et à la recherche universitaire au sein de ce cinéma au sens large. Ces démarches peuvent être vue comme faisant partie d’une anti-esthétique queer. Loin est un film documentaire à la première personne tourné et monté par l’autrice du texte. Il pourrait appartenir à cette esthétique queer du ratage et de l’échec. La réalisatrice s’entretient avec sa grand-mère française sur le passé, tout en montrant des fragments de sa vie quotidienne à Montréal. / This research-creation masters thesis contains two parts : a written essay, « Failure may be your style » and a feature-length documentary film, Loin. First person documentary is a genre that can be extended to video in general, because both express subjectivity and resemble the essayistic form due to their fragmentariness and incoherences. Failure is an essential element of this film category, because it can move the spectator by showing what could have been thrown away, what would have normally been situated off-camera and off-cinema, which can constitute forms of cinematographic punctum. Autobiography and autoethnography can combine with fiction and academic research in this vision of enlarged cinema. These approaches can be considered as part of a queer anti-aesthetic. Loin is a first-person documentary shot and edited by the author of the text. It could be inscribed in this queer aesthetic of failure. The director interviews her French grand-mother about the past while depicting fragments of her daily life in Montréal.

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This dissertation considers whether photography as a language translates a transient moment into an embodied image. This is considered to be a mimesis of the moment as an aid for memory. By following a dialectic approach I posit a thesis based on the common sense perception of photography which states that photography is an artefactual mimesis aiding memory. After reflecting on Plato’s concept of writing as a pharmakon and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction theory I establish an antithesis which proclaims that a photograph aids memory but also leads to the illusion of remembering past experiences. The synthesis is then presented which resolves the opposing ideas. This component argues that a photograph is a mimetic device that aids memory by presenting embodied fragmented reflections of time which can be used to create new meanings and memories. The dissertation concludes with a discussion that supports and integrates this argument with visual research. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts)

Moments of Absorption explores the conceptual and visual themes that are presented in my MFA thesis exhibition. The research looks into the absorption of the nude subject, the gestures that communicate this absorption, and the domestic space as a stage for the presentation of these gestures. This work investigates a tension between the theatrical and the natural as represented by images.

(anglicky) The aspiration of this thesis is on behalf of (more authentic) Eros problematic "to shake" literary science, not to say its method of interpretation, and so open another, more sensitive approach to art. As a tangle of starting points, I used the dubious theories of authors such as late R. Barthes, G. Didi-Huberman, H. Bloom, G. Bataille or S. Sontag. But especially, I delve into the studies of European literature in order to expose my own "wounds", no less violently classified into thematic chapters (Cosmogony, God of Love, Desire, Philosophy, Heart, Arrow, Wing, Game, Topos, Instinct, Orpheus and others). Therefore I introduce Eros as multifaceted phenomenon, in contrast to monological tendencies of dominant (platonic or Christian) erotic interpretations. Moreover - in polemics with Bataille's eroticism - I try to make Eros "the work".

This dissertation considers whether photography as a language translates a transient moment into an embodied image. This is considered to be a mimesis of the moment as an aid for memory. By following a dialectic approach I posit a thesis based on the common sense perception of photography which states that photography is an artefactual mimesis aiding memory. After reflecting on Plato’s concept of writing as a pharmakon and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction theory I establish an antithesis which proclaims that a photograph aids memory but also leads to the illusion of remembering past experiences. The synthesis is then presented which resolves the opposing ideas. This component argues that a photograph is a mimetic device that aids memory by presenting embodied fragmented reflections of time which can be used to create new meanings and memories. The dissertation concludes with a discussion that supports and integrates this argument with visual research. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts)