berlin based artist Hito Steyerl's exhibition at the ICA proved extremely humorous and influential. The works shown satirically focus on contemporary issues such as feminism and militarisation. shown in the second smaller cinema. The most influential was 'How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational' The automated voice over was hilariously dictating the audience how to disappear in the digital world, a world full of buildings and moving images. The obvious use of green screen was interesting and makes me want to attempt this for later projects. The involvment of the people, including Steyerl herself in the video is engaging and gives a familiarity to the piece. the people wearing boxes on the heads behind the green scene was entertaining.
overall the piece was enjoyable to watch and left a clear and strong impression in my head for a weeks after. this is the effect i would like my film to present, a quality that relaxes the viewer, also annotating contemporary concern of consumerism, ideal perfection and HD (high definition). Steyerls description of the videos are also mocking a want to be invisible, producing images of a transparent man running through a sims/automated looking city, made on a computer in a video game setting.
i want my video in a similar theme, to describe how to fit in with society, specifically with certain conditions/flaws the mythical creature such as MEDUSA, PANDORA and the SIRENS hold. it is also a satirical narrative indicating how to fit in, although the colours and vibrance to the shots i have used suggests the con tray, having the beginning images of real life dull in black and white, not to suggest the dullness of life but to excite and celebrate difference, fantasy and the surreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBEG8tAToCA
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