In chapter 1, New Media in Art by Michael Rush mentions a performance of beating a guitar on themselves until it disintegrated. And this reminded me of David Blaine when he would perform his extreme isolation meditation. Like with the ice tomb, standing 100-foot high, 22-in wide pillar, submerged in water and buried alive. He did these while filming for a tv show pushing his limits of the audience reactions. Another trick that comes to mind is the ice pick through the hand or arm in front of people. There is this raw emotion of disgust with doubt because that it can't be real? Right?
I decided to do this theme because that is what I’m constantly hearing all day for the past weeks. So why not make some art of this situation. The poster colors China flags withing the spray is where it was started. And I changed the mask into a dis-morphed United states flag. Using a very generic Asian face from the internet because people are freaking about or reacting in racial profiling manor. And calling this virus what is and that is a racist virus. And I chose to use a disinfecting spray because people are buying large amounts of this. And it also references to how some Americans view Asian people as zombies, pests, or the cause of reason for the spread of this virus. Which is far from the truth.
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