We decided to use Cao Fei's "Whose Utopia?" as our stimulus point for our group piece. We want to explore the institution's system and how that effects us as a person - should we chose to follow the rules put in by those in charge to follow? or should we chose to follow our own decisions? We want to incorporate all three parts of the video, the mechanism from the first part, the expressive creativity in the second part and the statement from the last. By incorporating mechanical and in-sync actions, we are showing the rules and the system we fall into as members of this society - we are taught to conform.
We're going to show this through using paper and writing lines of "I will follow". We chose to use paper in our piece as paper is a root that creativity can grow from; paintings, stories, poetry and plays are all birthed from being written down and recorded, so we are contrasting that creativity with the systematic line writing. We are then going to confront the decision of choosing to not follow the rules and let the creativity flow - this is going to be shown through ripping up the paper and writing "I will not follow". This is to show a break in the system, the creativity behind the machines; echoing the second part in Cao Fei's video. Our aim is to move at the exact same time to truly echo the machinery in the first part by using in-sync movements.
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