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Masked Identity In Color / Colored Identity In Mask

[Parvez]; Jury, Visarte; Doswald, Christoph Doswald; Molleur, Chantal; [Parvez]

This Performance Video is a testimony to the false fears that are generated by a systemic machinery to continue to fuel identity politics. A virus does not discriminate yet it followed the patterns of inequality.

The depths of systemic racial discrimination ensured, without anyone having to move a finger that the populations that have been traditionally discriminated against, suffer more during the Covid pandemic.

A mask is usually associated with anonymity. Yet, it could not hide the existing prejudices and equalize the people in that assumed anonymity. In this performance, it represents this ironic futility 'of attempting equality through anonymity', in a world where skin color continues to define people.

The artist uses RGB (Red, Green, Blue) color spectrum which gives color to the virtual world on our digital devices, as a reference to all the people in the world, who have been confined into a primary identity that spells ‘color’.

1. Online 2. Locarno 3. Basel, 2020

https://www.parvez.work

Additional

The Performance and the video recording was done by the artist alone in his Studio. Two unique Body prints Negative and Positive (both 150 x 100 cm each) were produced during the process.

Remark

Uploaded data includes: Video (1280x720) with sound Still photo from the Video Photos of the negative and Positive Body prints.

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vwg:declare 2020 Video 16:9 voc:voc_Genres:voc_Malperformance voc:voc_Bezüge:voc_Politik voc:voc_Themen:voc_Identitäten voc:voc_Themen:voc_Schmerz voc:voc_Qualitäten:voc_symbolisch voc:voc_Handlungen:voc_stehen voc:voc_Materialien:voc_Farbe voc:voc_Räume:voc_Atelier

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Full spec

anderesformat: Video Negative Body Print (150 x 100 cm) - one Positive Body Print (150 x 100 cm) - one
camera: [Parvez]
dauer: 11min 15sec
doctype: Performance/Aktion für die Kamera / Performance/Action for the Camera
eventcurator: Jury, Visarte; Doswald, Christoph Doswald; Molleur, Chantal
eventplace: 1. Online 2. Locarno 3. Basel
festival: Visarte Corona Call
function: creator
jahrgang: 1967
medium: Video 16:9
performers
remark: Uploaded data includes: Video (1280x720) with sound Still photo from the Video Photos of the negative and Positive Body prints.
schlagwort: Genres:Malperformance;Bezüge:Politik;Themen:Identitäten;Themen:Schmerz;Qualitäten:symbolisch;Handlungen:stehen;Materialien:Farbe;Räume:Atelier
sprache: eng