Piece Description
Medium: Video
Dimensions: 13.75” by 9.48”
This piece is about the normalization and addiction of violence in our society. With today’s influence of technology and media what used to be taboo and censored has now become mainstream. There is now an endless supply and demand of despicable, inhumane, spine-wrenching content that is constantly uploaded, shared, and enjoyed. People have traded their empathy for cheap, short-lived entertainment by knowingly watching what they shouldn’t. I chose to make the subject the viewer to hold a mirror up to the part of society we don’t see: the audience. I chose a video as the medium to best capture the experience of our taboo/guilty pleasure by replicating it. I attempt to provoke disgust in the viewers through exposing distasteful aspects of voyeurism: close-ups of chewing, the primal look of excitement in the eyes, and the heavy uncontrolled panting. The act of eating popcorn represents our lack of self-control and our insatiable gluttony that portrays us more as beasts than men.