Diego Bernaschina
ART Habens
When I was a course in the tutorship of artistic research of Cancha Santiago . An academic was surprised for having selected the Competition Juan Downey at the 12th Biennial of Media Arts : “ Speak in Tongues ” in 2015 via email to congratulate my first work of video art Conversación en silencio ( 2015 ). Then she asked me to see my work . From there , she recommended me to do in another proposal of video art without the need for put a sketch . Therefore , I decided to edit a series of original and non-original videos to transform it into an authentic way . A good manipulation of explosive and abusive scenes of different images to react to the confused and rejected viewers of this work of videoarte . For so much the play of the images on the real or unreal mixture . the relationship between artistic knowledge and social practice .
Many people obsessed and mocked that they acted like monkeys as if they were a zoo . A great joke for me and for the whole deaf community . These fears and suspicions also affected many years by the discrimination at that time . So , it occurred to me to project the images that recounting that story of the voice by the silence on the absence , the solitude , the guilt and the rage ... as the childhood and the adolescence were broken , I could no longer communicate with the non-verbal message — the idiom of the gestual tongue communicates with his hands in a natural way — for deaf people . All deaf people have undergone many changes in their life , many communication problems for them . Many hearing people didn ’ t understand the obstacles that they prevented speaking a good gestural communication . Therefore , I began to introduce the manual alphabet of the Lengua de Señas Chilena ( Chilean Sign Language in Spanish ) at different frame rates to cause the confusion of images to the viewers unaware the gestual tongue . Just as
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