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Color Censorship
Live Performance, 2018
Carrie Sijia Wang
Live Image Processing Performance at Culture Hub
Special thanks to: Matt Romein
Video credit: CultureHub, Nicolas Peña-Escarpentier, Katya Rozanova
This live audio/visual performance presents a dystopian world of constantly changing rules of censoring colors. The performer, playing the role of a “moderator” in the censorship office, reacts to the evolving rules and takes unwanted colors off the screen using an iPad, as if playing a game. The goal of this piece is to deal with the topic of censorship on a highly abstract level by telling a simple, funny and absurd story that is in its core closer to reality than what it looks like. The visual and audio components include color and text animations, tones loosely associated with colors, computer voices and found video game sound effects.
