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1. Viral Interventions: Read

2. Viral Interventions: Identify

3. Viral Interventions: Compose

4. Viral Interventions: Present (Final)

5. Viral Interventions: Barbara Kruger QCQ

6. Viral Interventions: Propose 1 2 3 

7. Viral Interventions: Final Proposal

8. Viral Interventions: Tasks

9. Viral Intervention: Timeline

10. Viral Intervention: Budget

11. Viral Intervention: Process

Quote: “Think like us, hate like us, fear like us.”

Comment: This quote resonates with me a lot. Growing up around the internet, the mob mentality that the majority of people have is strong. If you don’t share the same opinions or like someone who’s considered “controversial”, you’re either immediately ostracized or otherwise cancelled. It’s exhausting to try and fit in with a group that claims to be accepting yet cannot fathom when someone has a different view or behaves in a way that warrants DISCIPLINE, not BULLYING. Too many times have I seen people taking advantage of the fact someone is in hot water to freely hate on them in a disgusting and brutal way. These people don’t want others to change; they just want a punching bag they can project onto so they don’t have to confront the fact that they are the monsters. 

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Witness Documentation:

“Consequences”

Dimensions: ~15 ft x 40 ft

Materials: plush bear, tree, index cards, metal bats, black markers, glue, acrylic paint, sponge brushes, mod podge, rope

For our final project, we hung a large damaged plush bear on a tree in Tamiami Park. Negative notes occupy the space where its heart used to be, and they fly out as the plush is hit with bats. The film is done vertically to parallel how the first instincts of people witnessing something tragic is to pull out their phones and hit record.

The story of the bear posting his art and receiving an overwhelming amount of unnecessary hate comments to the point where he decides to end it all is a story that has been seen time and time again. having experienced being ostracized for drawing something i loved and having been pushed to that point, the film is a bit personal for me which is why i wanted to be in charge of directing and filming it. even in other cases where some people DO end up taking their life, i’ve seen people in the comments making jokes or celebrating their death just because they were “cringe” or made a simple mistake that was blown out of proportion. Many people like to hop on a bandwagon as well when they see someone getting dog piled, because what better way to look cool than to hate on the new person getting canceled? 

Seeing the people pass by yet not say anything also correlates to the “stander-by” effect where nobody says or does anything… for whatever reason. We were already anticipating that kind of reaction since the type of society we live in unfortunately looks the other way when abuse is being presented. Society is lacking in empathy. 

Everyone is too caught up trying to be funny or mean for the sake of it, and the consequences? 

We will hang a large plush animal from a tree, meant to represent a corpse with its heart gouged out. Within the hole where its heart used to be are notes containing the negativity and lack of kindness that killed it. It is also weighed down by these negative notes, like cement blocks. We will be placing a balloon inside of these plush animal that will deflate over time, representing the plush’s slowly draining life force. Our audience are people who are too preoccupied to care for the suffering of others, based off of the assumption that most people won't stop to look to the plush.

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Dog Cages

This proposal is inspired by a comic ‘The Angriest Dog in the World’ by David Lynch. We propose displaying two cages, one covered with a blanket playing audio of a dog growling and barking, may include a moveable toy inside hidden from the viewer so the cage can shake mimicking a dog lunging at the viewer. The other cage will be empty with a note along the lines of “I found a loving home!”.

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Fake Dead Tree

We had the idea of finding or creating a fake dead tree and hanging notes from the branches. The notes would have insults written on them, as if these insults were what killed the tree. Harkening back to the “forgotten to be kind” part in our sentence. Out of all of the notes, only one of them has a positive affirmation, written in a different color, but all the other ones shadow it over—representing how cruel the world has become in modern times. We would direct it towards those who are too focused on their own problems to care for the struggle of other people. If we go with this idea, we will install it in a populated part of Tamiami Park or some other natural environment, perhaps a little away from other wildlife so more attention is on it.

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Plush Corpse

This proposal involves a corpse, visualized by a large plush animal with its heart gouged out. Within the crater where its heart used to be are notes containing the negativity and lack of kindness that killed it. Our intended audience are those too preoccupied to care for the suffering of others, this is based off of the assumption that most people won't stop to pay attention to the plush. We would likely display this plush on the side of the road where people will be able to notice it.

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“The world has gone dysfunctional and we have forgotten to be kind; it is an alarming frenzy that is fatal to us all"

Dimensions: ~20ft x 70ft

Materials: tape, sharpie marker, tree

“The world has gone dysfunctional and we have forgotten to be kind; it is an alarming frenzy that is fatal to us all.”

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