Ghosts Stories
Installation
"Beyond the Borders"
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
September ‑ November 1995
"Congratulations! You've lived another hundred years. Survival is the thing. You don't need to read the newspapers or watch television to know what's going on. Bad news reaches you wherever you go. If you have ears. All you need is a question mark. To keep you on your guard. Monkey sees, Monkey do.
Do we really know? What we are fighting for?
Do we really know what we are living for?
Do we really know what we are dying for?
Enough of dying!
I want to live... I want to live...
They killed the chickens, to scare the monkeys. So back to zero. Then count again. Start again. Don't go back to zero. Keep on counting. See where it leads you. It's our destiny. Unless you want history to repeat itself. Don't give up. You have a choice. Beware of fast cars and condominiums.
In some places, they still worship the half‑blind kings.
Do they see?
See no evil... Hear no evil... Do no evil...
It's a promise. If we play the game, we will get tile prize. The whole prize, from beginning to end. But there's no such need for those who love. But there's much to lose... and to fear. The loss of power. The loss of gold and silver. The darkness of morality. Don't you want to live forever?
The chickens are dead, you are alive..."
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Despite encouraging liberalization in this century, modern society still maintains itself in a hierarchical order. Such a system tends to trivialize the individual's rights and exaggerate the ruling sovereign powers. The ultimate .unfreedom" then is that of detention without an open trial. It is one thing to punish the severely deviant through legitimate jurisdiction in a trial. But one suspects the justice of detention without an open trial where detainees are at the mercy of their jailers.
Furthermore, a system that allows such measures of social control never hesitates to use it to deter other expressions of liberal minority views. Especially those deemed to be oppositional to the ruling system. It is often also used as the underlying Intimidation to control the media, art, literature, culture, sexual deviations and preferences. ... etc. which may seem to threaten the perpetuation of the ruling system.
1995
Installation
"Beyond the Borders"
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
September ‑ November 1995
"Congratulations! You've lived another hundred years. Survival is the thing. You don't need to read the newspapers or watch television to know what's going on. Bad news reaches you wherever you go. If you have ears. All you need is a question mark. To keep you on your guard. Monkey sees, Monkey do.
Do we really know? What we are fighting for?
Do we really know what we are living for?
Do we really know what we are dying for?
Enough of dying!
I want to live... I want to live...
They killed the chickens, to scare the monkeys. So back to zero. Then count again. Start again. Don't go back to zero. Keep on counting. See where it leads you. It's our destiny. Unless you want history to repeat itself. Don't give up. You have a choice. Beware of fast cars and condominiums.
In some places, they still worship the half‑blind kings.
Do they see?
See no evil... Hear no evil... Do no evil...
It's a promise. If we play the game, we will get tile prize. The whole prize, from beginning to end. But there's no such need for those who love. But there's much to lose... and to fear. The loss of power. The loss of gold and silver. The darkness of morality. Don't you want to live forever?
The chickens are dead, you are alive..."
‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑
Despite encouraging liberalization in this century, modern society still maintains itself in a hierarchical order. Such a system tends to trivialize the individual's rights and exaggerate the ruling sovereign powers. The ultimate .unfreedom" then is that of detention without an open trial. It is one thing to punish the severely deviant through legitimate jurisdiction in a trial. But one suspects the justice of detention without an open trial where detainees are at the mercy of their jailers.
Furthermore, a system that allows such measures of social control never hesitates to use it to deter other expressions of liberal minority views. Especially those deemed to be oppositional to the ruling system. It is often also used as the underlying Intimidation to control the media, art, literature, culture, sexual deviations and preferences. ... etc. which may seem to threaten the perpetuation of the ruling system.
1995