In the creation of this video, I went back to Cindy Sherman's Untitled, 1980. The still shows a shallow depth of field photograph with Sherman in character shown up close to the foreground diverting her eyes off the image. The Cindy Sherman image evocates uneasiness with a blurred contrast of the background and overall gloomy desaturated warm color like the 1950s Horror and Sci-fi movie poster designs.
Cindy Sherman's weariness in her still photograph led me to the thought of media and journalism in America, the lack of trust in media, and the negative impact of exposure to news and media. Study shows American’s trust in mass media Sinks to a New Low, results showing 32% have a great deal or fair amount of trust in media and confidence drops among younger and older Americans. I was heavily influenced by media and wanted to consume more content changed my overall perspective on life. Fear from the outside world and seeing rather lots of exposure to violence and genocide happening, made life gloomier and depleted the happiness out of life.
In the performance video, the character on screen is an embodiment of the mind from excess exposure to media. The character is unsettling to view, as they have lost sanity and trust in the outside world. Home is their sanctuary; they feel safe and protected-feeling inevitably. This act is a personification of the mind. Their lifestyle has been greatly impacted by a diet of fast food overlooking themselves their mind have lost it. It’s not as easy as turning the news or media off with a click when a kick of dopamine comes from the satisfaction of getting more information and content. That is what the character always comes back to watch despite its negative impact. This is a reality we have experienced through the COVID lockdown, and some still rely on news and media. This character resembles a hikikomori, in Japanese meaning a form of severe social withdrawal.
On Photography By Susan Sontag
…the precise expression on the subject's face that supported their own notions about poverty, light, dignity, texture, exploitation, and geometry. In deciding how a picture should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects.
When envisioning the video performance in the pre-production phase it’s important to have your idea planned out on lighting, color, or no color, the script of the acting the anticipated reaction from the viewers of your work. I considered dark and minimal lighting to enhance my idea of the character I play has been mentally deteriorated and a lack of trust from media but still addicted.
Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy By Edra Soto
I think the larger challenge surrounding not only the pandemic but also the converging crises of racial justice, reproductive rights, and everything else is the immediacy with which we are being called upon to act. This is infiltrated and influenced by social media and the sort of commotion and chaos of the news cycle…
Conflicts have arisen more significantly than pre-pandemic. We have seen issues of genocide, protest, wars, and victims of unfortunate deaths, all these topics being brought up together because of all these matters equally, but we cannot just sit and ponder about these situations as we must take care of ourselves and our family. Loads of videos from media and breaking news with devastating updates contribute to take a toll on our minds some are even so disturbing that they remain burned images instilled in our heads. A state of shock or for others completely desensitized as to the content we consume more violent content.
How To See The World By Nicholas Mirzoeff
The selfie depicts the drama of our own daily performance with our inner emotions that may or may not be expressed as we wish…
The performance act is of the daily expanding more in inner thoughts and emotions. Through the personification of the mind, I act showing realistic acting as the result of a lack of trust in media and the effects of news. Though the act isn’t purely dramatized with noticeable erratic emotions the minimal lighting helps to evoke my theme.
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