Okay. If you haven’t got it by now, I am totally obsessed with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. Sure all of their stuff seems the same superficially, but I am here to argue that is most definitely is not. “All Fall Down” kind of exploded my brain. Instead of having some foreign and unfamiliar text that I can ultimately ignore besides seeing it pulse and change along with the music, it is all in English and there are way too many things going on at the same time. When it was on the big screen in class, I seriously considered my chances for having a seizure. I think that this project plays with the relativity of words and how things are all connected. There’s always someone who has some sort of commentary on things that you have to say no matter how obvious.<\/p>\n
“all fall down. (yup.) things fall down. (right.)”<\/p>\n
“stars fall down. (on alabama.)<\/p>\n
These are just some examples of the screens change, I feel like I am not precisely articulating exactly how I feel about this piece. I don’t know how many of you watch “The Office” (US version, although the UK one is highly underrated), but this reminds me of a conversation between Michael and Dwight so let me set the scene and diverge from “All Fall Down” for a quick second. Dwight is at his desk holding a bunch of grapes over his face plucking them off with his mouth Michael comes in and, although no one has said anything, says “that’s what she said”. Dwight says, “I don’t get it” and Michael says, “Grapes? Seductive?” I feel like the second or the response to the first statement, which I consider to be the main statement of the idea, is more of a “That’s what she said” almost an unrelated little quip. I still don’t know if I am making any sense. I think I’ll stop trying to explain it now.<\/p>\n
What makes this such a sensory overload is not only the rapidly flashing text and contrasting black and white and your brain struggling with all of its might to keep up with what it is trying to process at the speed of light (signature of YHCHI) but also with the seemingly unconnected thoughts scrolling along at the bottom of the screen. I say seemingly unconnected because sometimes, if your eyes are quick enough, you can sometimes simultaneously look at both of the changing texts and they are somehow related, I can’t think of an example right at this moment but if you have looked at this piece enough, I think you know what I am talking about.<\/p>\n
And once again, you are totally stuck in this piece although you may wish and pray for a pause button or maybe even slow motion (is that too much to ask?! I’m an English Major! I like to process what I read!!) there is no going back, and I don’t necessarily think you would want to fast forward. Although I think I may like “Nippon” better, this is most definitely an intriguing piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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