#assessment task 3

When we enter the society, we realize the importance of emotional quotation. Emotional quotation is actually many different masks for each person to hide their feelings.

People in today's society are hiding their true feelings. The mask is the main object of this film. The existence of masks magnifies people's emotions and attitudes on the appearance, and shows that this is not the true feeling in people's heart.

Life is like drama, drama is like life. On the big stage of society, everyone is an actor.

I have surveyed many friends in middle and high school, and they all say that Since entering the university, they have to constantly disguise themselves. 

The reason is that most people in society are like this. And they think take masks also a means of self-protection.

The sociologist goffman proposed the famous theory of drama, which holds that everyone is an actor on the stage, using various props (language signs, body movement signs, emojis, text signs, etc.) to design or present their images in advance, and strive to be recognized by all audiences.

The bulk of our group researching and brainstorming for this assessment task can be found in the following Google doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-FRUbqPmP1S3YeBzAnEOySFepnDCj9wPAzvAnEg-Pi8/edit?usp=sharing

The class topic that we decided to focus on for this task is collaboration, so the use of a Google doc that all of us can work on at once further reflects this concept. Our idea of collaboration involves a class “event”, which is our “End-of-Semester Party”, as we believe that it would be more collaborative if everyone was able to reminisce together on times from high school and primary school, when we had end-of-term parties. 

With the idea of ‘erasure’, I wanted to take it further and consider the concept from different perspectives. The notion of erasure is often appeared as removing, wiping or disappearing. What I thought ‘erasure’ is disappearance of the things that I take it for granted. Then I tried to place myself in that situation and think of what it would be like when necessary objects disappear from our lives. This related to my first and second experiments. For those experiments, I used Adobe photoshop and premiere to produce the removal of really simple things in life such as no symbols and letters from the keyboard or unexpected mute in expected situation.

For my final project, I decided to  present the form of erasure of senses, specifically visual, auditory, and olfactory senses — in relation to disability, and their feelings of inconvenience and isolation in society abstractly. When our abilities to see, hear and smell disappear we can see how uncomfortable life would be. Through the examples I made, just by getting rid of everyday scenarios can sympathise the inconvenience of disability. I used blur and old tv effects or flickering light to show the idea of sight disability. And by bring the idea of my second experiment to reveal auditory disorder. I reversed the video of blooming flowers and overlay with under water scene to symbolise the olfactory disorder abstractly.

Tim Silver - Untitled (bust) (Pine Timbermate Woodfiller), 2011

Research

In the autumn part of the publication, I was intended to show a shift of the colour tone from winter to autumn, the artwork “The Autumn Rhythm” produced by  Jackson Pollock is the one I used when designing the first page of the Autumn theme.