I think maybe creating the button more accessible might be a good direction to take the work. Perhaps a smaller version, although is less intimidation a good thing for my work?
Saturday, 27 November 2010
The RE-Push
A new button, for the work 'The Ease of Murder'. A much more sleeker, professional and welcoming design. Actually a part from a arcade video game machine, works well for that WANT to push it. Also in finding a more accessible button in terms of design i think i'll be able to take them further, perhaps create more buttons, different buttons for different situations. People are more open to interaction when they don't have to sacrifice anything of theirs up, for example the Donation box work(The Value of Death)
I think maybe creating the button more accessible might be a good direction to take the work. Perhaps a smaller version, although is less intimidation a good thing for my work?
I think maybe creating the button more accessible might be a good direction to take the work. Perhaps a smaller version, although is less intimidation a good thing for my work?
Saturday, 20 November 2010
The Means
What if i set it up, the whole situation, what if i gave you every tool you needed, what if i handed you the ability?
If i handed you a knife and there was someone bound, gagged and incapacitated to stop you, what would you do with that knife? What would it even say about you if you took the knife from me? All I'm doing is handing you a knife, it is your interpretation about whether that knife is a 'weapon', it is your choice to do whatever you wish with that knife. My very intent of handing it over to you could be to chop up some vegetables for me, you don't know, my silent action is up to your rational, integrity bound and world weary mind to deduce.
Without instruction, without direction, would you do anything? The art bound, those who believe they are just going through a gallery to view 'contemporary' art would probably just take it humorous then move onto the next thing. Well how about if i didn't give you the choice of leaving? I doubt i'd go that far. The sheer action of whether you interact with my work or not, is infact a interaction within itself. Choosing to not gratify my ploys, machines, situations with a action on your behalf, is still, an action.
Imagine a dream, imagine a place you feel safe. A world of your own, to your liking, to your ideals, to your laws. Imagine you had all the control, the power, now imagine what you could do with that. Imagine, just imagine. Now consider this, consider the fact you are ultimately god within this dream, it is yours after all. Or is it. As much as you believe you are the commander of your thoughts and the pilot of your consciousness, there are things are play you cannot comprehend. No matter how high you build your walls your subconscious and your curiosity will always break them down and barrel on right through them. With all the power you believe you have is it too much of a push to suggest in your dreams the laws of reality slip away and your unparalleled freedom runs unhindered, that maybe, just maybe, you might indulge your darkest of desires and see what it's like to really test your moral structure and standing. All well and good to play around and find a nice escape. But dreams are dreams and we all like to be able to have a mild escape once in a while.
Say you kill someone in a dream, say you indulge in that fantasy, would you scare yourself? Or rather would you enjoy it? It most likely would be of someone of distaste to you. It may and even give you satisfaction. Many of you wouldn't admit to a dark desire such as this. Many of you would lie about it. Many of you would be thinking what type of person this makes you. Well surely, if anything, it makes you human.
If i handed you a knife and there was someone bound, gagged and incapacitated to stop you, what would you do with that knife? What would it even say about you if you took the knife from me? All I'm doing is handing you a knife, it is your interpretation about whether that knife is a 'weapon', it is your choice to do whatever you wish with that knife. My very intent of handing it over to you could be to chop up some vegetables for me, you don't know, my silent action is up to your rational, integrity bound and world weary mind to deduce.
Without instruction, without direction, would you do anything? The art bound, those who believe they are just going through a gallery to view 'contemporary' art would probably just take it humorous then move onto the next thing. Well how about if i didn't give you the choice of leaving? I doubt i'd go that far. The sheer action of whether you interact with my work or not, is infact a interaction within itself. Choosing to not gratify my ploys, machines, situations with a action on your behalf, is still, an action.
Imagine a dream, imagine a place you feel safe. A world of your own, to your liking, to your ideals, to your laws. Imagine you had all the control, the power, now imagine what you could do with that. Imagine, just imagine. Now consider this, consider the fact you are ultimately god within this dream, it is yours after all. Or is it. As much as you believe you are the commander of your thoughts and the pilot of your consciousness, there are things are play you cannot comprehend. No matter how high you build your walls your subconscious and your curiosity will always break them down and barrel on right through them. With all the power you believe you have is it too much of a push to suggest in your dreams the laws of reality slip away and your unparalleled freedom runs unhindered, that maybe, just maybe, you might indulge your darkest of desires and see what it's like to really test your moral structure and standing. All well and good to play around and find a nice escape. But dreams are dreams and we all like to be able to have a mild escape once in a while.
Say you kill someone in a dream, say you indulge in that fantasy, would you scare yourself? Or rather would you enjoy it? It most likely would be of someone of distaste to you. It may and even give you satisfaction. Many of you wouldn't admit to a dark desire such as this. Many of you would lie about it. Many of you would be thinking what type of person this makes you. Well surely, if anything, it makes you human.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
The Experiment
Through my research and my crit group interactions, i've been looking at creating some experiments. Social experiments. Maybe particularly within my Moral Free Zone. The creation of a moral vacuum could influence the moral choices of people. They could believe they have no moral responsibility within the space and are more free to interact and choose certain things.
What does a person have to believe in order to take a life? What sort of situation is it morally acceptable to kill? Can I morally challenge the individual to an extent they become susceptible to the idea that it is OK to murder, that taking another's life is 'right'? Is it possible to twist the foundations of right and wrong within an individual? How convinced does a person have to be to consider a crime to be acceptable?
What does a person have to believe in order to take a life? What sort of situation is it morally acceptable to kill? Can I morally challenge the individual to an extent they become susceptible to the idea that it is OK to murder, that taking another's life is 'right'? Is it possible to twist the foundations of right and wrong within an individual? How convinced does a person have to be to consider a crime to be acceptable?
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