Author
nybergd
This video I believe addresses an important subject, which is the mistreatment of Hollywood writers who are members of the Writers Guild Association (WGA). Often, we have a societal misconception that everyone in Hollywood makes millions, when in fact thousands of writers make an unlivable wage, receive no residuals for their created works, and do not receive basic benefits. My goal from this video is to showcase all that WGA members have given us, and then to take all this sound away from the audience to showcase what a WGA free world would be like. To me, this work is almost antithetical to Antoni Muntadas’s “The Boardroom”, as the final portion of my project takes away all sound from the audience, and leaves them in the silence of a WGA free world.
This audio and image capture the sounds of suburbia, and really encapsulate what we all hear daily.
This image is something that I think I have used to convey my frustrations, anxiety, uncertainty, and fears of the pandemic through. Specifically, the past few years I (and I am sure all of us) have gone through so much with the pandemic. From not knowing how to keep ourselves and families safe, to not knowing how to make connections in a sea of covered faces. I have used this image to convey these feelings as I struggled during the pandemic to make connections while wearing a mask, and constantly tested to alleviate my fears and anxiety of having COVID, which culminated in me feeling like I was lost and could not find any normality. In order to show this, I modeled this picture off of Stelarc’s art, as I feel this relates to his art of the body becoming obsolete, with the difference in my picture being not that the body is becoming obsolete, but that instead we have lost ourselves in a public health crisis.
