I Have Been Told Not to Choose Certain Colors When It Comes to Car Purchases After I Came to Melbourne (2019)
9 1月 2022
I Have Been Told Not to Choose Certain Colors When It Comes to Car Purchases After I Came to Melbourne, 2019
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I Have Been Told Not to Choose Certain Colors When It Comes to Car Purchases After I Came to Melbourne

2019
HD video (color, sound)
44′

This work originated from the artist’s car purchasing experience when he first arrived in Melbourne, where a friend told him not to choose certain colors of cars and mentioned the connection between vehicle color and ethnicity. But he could not find statistics to support this and learned that this was his friend’s personal bias and stereotype. The artist placed a camera over a traffic surveillance camera on the M1 highway in Melbourne and shot a one-hour objective traffic surveillance video. After cutting out all the cars mentioned in his friend’s words about color, the final video is only 44 minutes long. The missing cars are replaced by glitches and the video looks quite ordinary. Like the subtle faults in it, prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination are ubiquitous in real life, but everything looks normal.

I Have Been Told Not to Choose Certain Colors When It Comes to Car Purchases After I Came to Melbourne, 2019
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I Have Been Told Not to Choose Certain Colors When It Comes to Car Purchases After I Came to Melbourne
2019
HD video (color, sound)
44′