I believe that the artworks based on traditional mediums are not sufficient anymore in the case of interacting with its audience, because of the mass image consumption and low attention time of today’s people. Thus, the audience acts as a “passive observer” in front of these conventional works of art. That being the case, the observation of the audience can not transform into an individual experience especially in organizations like art fairs where the space is limited regarding the number of the exhibited artworks. Newer, more experimental forms of art are needed to make it experienced. That’s why I put performance at the center of my artistic creation. I prioritize the artistic creative process over an end product. In performative artworks, the creative process itself is presented with all of its being while open to any kind of manipulation, in contrast to a painting that is bought by one who owns a matching interior design. Both the space where the performance comes into existence and the interference of its “participants” shapes the happening instantly while detracting the artwork from systematization. The interference of the audience includes both visible interactions and invisible motives as triggers of the action and reaction. These factors contribute to the randomness and uncertainty of “happening” while referencing the creative process itself. I want to focus on the open-ended and evolutionary nature of the works. I believe that this is the only way the observation can transform into a personal experience and the artworks are open to act of perception. Artworks that include human and machine interactions underline the effect of chance and accidentality by welcoming them. If the structure of the machine system is based on interaction, the state or act of its audience becomes an input, it can be even the pulse rate of one, an instant unique response will be generated as performer reacts. From this point of view, I want to create works that combine performance and technology.
The umbrella can protect people from various factors as well as the rain and sun. In 2014, umbrellas gained the mission of protecting the crowd from pepper spray and rubber bullets during the protests in Hong Kong regarding more transparent elections, which were later named “The Umbrella Movement”. The object, particularly the yellow ones, became a symbol for protests and in general used as a tool for passive resistance. In 2019, during the time of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement again in Hong Kong, the object carried the importance of collective expression, privacy, and self-defense for protesters in the same manner yet umbrellas have been labeled as weapons by police forces so that the ordering of the object from e-commerce platforms like AliExpress was banned. Beyond being a symbol of resistance, umbrellas were used as camouflage to provide privacy for protesters, as a shield and defense mechanism for protection against police forces as the people from protests clai...
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