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See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
It is a Chinese saying, referring to the three monkeys of their divine pantheon. In another way, one can say indeed that if one tries to be positive in word, deed, and thought, that one can avoid doing evil and also avoid falling into the traps of the wicked. The evil ones fall into their own trap for seeing, thinking, listening to , and doing evil. In the film: Planet of the Apes with Charlton Heston, these three famous monkey poses are actually referred to in the ape trial of the human. Mainly because these three behaviours are considered as major sources of evil in themselves. I would say that our installation is presenting to the audience the result of evil behaviour. It is about the communication nowadays... Source can be completely innocent so as the speaker, but the messenger is the one who makes the rules. Particularly in our installation the way of changing the message is cleared in three ways.
HEAR NO EVIL - you can hear it, just don't pay any attention to it
SEE NO EVIL - you can either cover your eyes and literally not see it, or pay no attention
SPEAK NO EVIL - You often can't help when you hear evil, especially rumours about others, speak no evil is about that you shouldn't repeat anything further.
Doing evil will be represented through 5 screens. On each of them - one person. As I said above, the source is innocent, follows three “monkeys” and the speaker:
Screen 1: a victim (the source)
Screen 2: a policeman (the monkey)
Screen 3: a journalist (the monkey)
Screen 4: a news editor (the monkey)
Screen 5: a news reporter (the speaker)
TV screens not projectors? Audience is always more satisfied of physical things that they can view from different perspectives. If the artwork is explorable, it takes the person more into the message that artist wants to tell. That's our main goal - To deliver our idea and our thoughts to the viewer more efficient and much faster. We gather that physical installation is much more powerful and more interactive than just a projection on the wall.
To make some ideas of screen positions we took a look to other artists.
Valie Export, video installation at Charim Galerie, (2012)
TV screens are on many tables facing towards audience. It takes a lot attention but in same same the number of screens disturbs the viewer and making focus on many visuals.
Another installation that inspired us was made by Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures at The Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
Andy's work took us because of portraits. Our problem will be showed through portrait series on the screen. It is interesting way to deliver the message. People usually try to look into faces while getting the point of speech or emotional expression, meanwhile others actually try to avoid that, complete opposites, which could be also related to one of the monkey's behaviour “See no Evil” or “Hear no Evil” - trying to ignore the message and keep enjoying the artform.
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