All Fall Down by Young Chang Heavy Industries was a bit of a headache as we all saw in class. This work consists of two different story lines being played out in different fashions. This first and most obvious part was the top half of the screen with bigger and bolder text. It also came up on the screen in tandem with the beats of the music. The other part was the ticker-esque text that ran along the bottom of the screen. If we separated all three aspects of the text, the music and the two texts apart from each other it would be a much more pleasurable experience. However, as we concluded during class, reading the texts separately even posed a problem, because it was tedious and the viewer had to be very focused. This is also true with the Star Wars, One Letter at a Time work because the viewer had to be completely involved and actively watching the screen to put the pieces together before the next word or letter popped up.<\/p>\n
The aesthetics of the work are intriguing because, again, if you were to separate all of the pieces of the work and make them more simplistic, they would be more enjoyable. For example, I had had this work running behind a couple of Internet browser windows and I found myself enjoying the music. If you were to take the texts out of the pulsating or ticker format and were to put them in a structure resembling a poem, then the viewer would be able to read each word at their leisure.<\/p>\n
Aside from the aesthetics and the fast paced nature of the work, the context was a matter of interest for me as well. While we were reading the separate pieces in class, I was wondering if there was ever some part where they intersect. Why were these texts chosen? Maybe when the top part mentions that \u2018people fall down’ he’s referring to the person in the bottom ticker and their actions. I feel like the bottom ticker is describing a stalker or someone who is obsessed with a particular woman. It’s almost as if the top part of the screen is pushing the bottom part of the screen to make a move or create some kind of action towards the object. The forced nature of the top part and the way it fluctuates between the black and white makes the viewer anxious and it creates suspense as if something is supposed to happen. Nothing seems to really happen, which is disappointing. It reminds me of a really bad horror movie in which there is plenty or suspense leading up to plenty of nothing.\u00a0 I found this piece just as stressful as the other pieces, despite the lack of color or intricate links and quirky aspects of pieces such as the Bomar Gene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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