I’ve been going over ideas for how to make use of the Dapper Laughs ‘comedy’ material and something has come up.
Aims for the work:
– represent the uncomfortable feeling of being bombarded with misogyny
– create a space where the noise of his language is like a never-ending barrage
– symbolise the excess of continuing misogynistic attitudes in western society
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At first it felt to me like the neon sign demonstrating a similar attitude to that expressed in Dapper Laughs’s language links well and could work in the piece as another element. I imagine a small space (discomforting) filled with loud noise of misogynistic ‘banter’ language (bombarding) and nothing to see but the (perhaps flickering) lights of the neon sign depicting even more misogyny. Altogether I feel like it would be an almost nauseating experience of what it’s like to understand just a small element of the chauvinism that still exists after such a sustained fight for gender equality.
LESS IS MORE!!!
After a really interesting group crit session with a visiting student from the RCA Reika, I started to realise that this idea is exactly the kind of thing I have been hoping to avoid in my work.
why it wouldn’t work so well:
– too many elements
– too ‘in your face’ which is what I want to avoid
– throwing too much in smells like lack of confidence
Reika made an interesting point that just using the sound and keeping the installation as simple as possible would give the work more strength. If it’s discomfort I’m going for, often a lack of something can be just as discomforting if not more so, than a barrage of it.
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