Objects. Images. Books.

Artist Ko Chung-li's first written work, "Object, Image, Book," is a powerful debut!

Where there are images, there are power dynamics structured by discrimination. And where there are such power dynamics, there will be resistance! If we lack resistance against images, then we are nothing! The strategic tactics of resistance and liberation are to actively invent images!
—Ko Chung-li

This book unfolds around the "political-economic dynamics of visibility," exploring how photography, since its invention, has expanded through technology and colonial systems into a global "visibility infrastructure project" and "original accumulation of images." The book compiles Ko Chung-li's important discussions, interviews, and creative notes from the past decade, and includes paper versions of representative works such as "Slide Show Cinema: The Taste of Sanma" and "The Delayed Punctum: Pier 2" series and drawings. With over two hundred images, some published for the first time, the book broadly covers topics of image and perception, as well as critical analyses of the history of technical images such as animation, photography, film, and generative imagery. This book invites readers to embark on a radical examination of our own visual mental history, following Ko Chung-li's unique creative reasoning, to deconstruct the violent structures of audiovisual hierarchy and power order, and to forge intellectual tools and practical methods for reclaiming perceptual sovereignty!