Countering artspeak generated by a washing machine
and its mind
回應洗衣機同佢個腦的陳述
2022
Video, 7mins 18 secs
Artspeak has drawn criticism and led two artists to publish a book titled International Art English.
Though washing machines don’t generate art statements, I imagine their swirling actions generate statements full of baffling “artspeak”, which appears non-sensical but they can be amusing at times.
While artspeak overwhelms audiences and drowns artworks, let’s get even by “captioning” them with images to highlight the language's obscure nature and perhaps the obscure nature of the artworld's operation.
Countering this "washing-machine generated" statement with images and footages is a means to empower myself as an artist and an audience, rather than ridiculing individual writers of those statements.
I consider this the counteractive power of art. The statement in this art video is a remix of fragments from statements found in events I visited before and on social media.
Sound (Creative Commons Licence)
In this video, Chiptune One.wav by CarlosCarty is used after edits were made. https://freesound.org/people/CarlosCarty/sounds/427513/
看了不少展覽陳述，很是有趣。它們很多如洗衣機翻動時製造出來般，就是看不明白那些文字。
而作為一個創作人也是一個觀眾，我能作的就是以影像回應一下，想像洗衣機真製作了一份陳述，然後為它配上影像。