Vote Yes
Inspiration
At the end of November 2018 is the referendum of against same-sex marriage passt, whereas according to the constitutional court in May 2017, getting married is a basic human right. The Pro-Family Organizations, who are against legalisation of gay marriage, keep saying that heterosexuality is “normal”, that birth is the only virtue of marriage, that gay-marriage will cause educational, ethical and moral problems if we cannot show Father and Mother but Parents on our ID card, and that teachers should stop teaching homosexualities, which is part of Gender Equity Education, in school, or children could become gay. Or with the help of social media they spread posts arguing that allowing gay marriage would increase the number of foreigners with HIV coming to Taiwan to take advantage of its healthcare system and increase divorce rate.
For me, as a younger generation, these arguments are totally nonsense. Also I was quite surprised and disappointed when I got the news that three referendums from Pro-Family People are passt and two from LGBTQ Group not. It is just unbelievable.
Concept
I wondered how these people have these thoughts and what the merits marriage have. Based on this Issue I would like to make a Project which some how turns the viewer on with heterosexual Pornofilms and ASMR, which since recently an Internet Meme. However the main goal is to disturb them, to tease them firstly and then interfere them by inserting some clips. In the end could be hopefully an Antiporno project.
Approach
Using found-footages from internet, most of them were tv-broadcasts and tapes from public hearing. There are politicians, pro-family representers, as well as "experts", who refuse to accept same sex marriage and had illogical, discriminating statements.
Instead of using Pure Data, I edited this non interactive, line video with Adobe Premiere Pro CC, I am also inspired by Cassetteboys Video [1] which Max showed us in Seminar. So I edited the footages into small clips and putting them together in order to have a new content. Considering the sounds from ASMR didn't really match to other dialogues as well as the atmosphere, I end up used sounds from Gaypornovideos, which were supported by friends in Taiwan. Also because they always mention gay sexuality as one of their arguments.
To make the dialogues sexier or maybe more ridiculous, I slowed down their talking speed in Audacity. Although it was still quite challenging to edit these clips and sounds together to have a good match and to make the audiences thinking that copulatory vocalizations are from the one in Broadcast.
References:
- The Guardian Uncertainty grips gay people in Taiwan as same-sex marriage goes to the vote
- BBC Taiwan voters reject same-sex marriage in referendums
- Taiwan votes on gay marriage
FangSheng Chou 2018/19
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