Diego Bernaschina
ART Habens
When I was a course in the tutorship of artistic research of Cancha Santiago. An academic was surprised for having selected the Competition Juan Downey at the 12th Biennial of Media Arts:“ Speak in Tongues” in 2015 via email to congratulate my first work of video art Conversación en silencio( 2015). Then she asked me to see my work. From there, she recommended me to do in another proposal of video art without the need for put a sketch. Therefore, I decided to edit a series of original and non-original videos to transform it into an authentic way. A good manipulation of explosive and abusive scenes of different images to react to the confused and rejected viewers of this work of videoarte. For so much the play of the images on the real or unreal mixture. the relationship between artistic knowledge and social practice.
Many people obsessed and mocked that they acted like monkeys as if they were a zoo. A great joke for me and for the whole deaf community. These fears and suspicions also affected many years by the discrimination at that time. So, it occurred to me to project the images that recounting that story of the voice by the silence on the absence, the solitude, the guilt and the rage... as the childhood and the adolescence were broken, I could no longer communicate with the non-verbal message— the idiom of the gestual tongue communicates with his hands in a natural way— for deaf people. All deaf people have undergone many changes in their life, many communication problems for them. Many hearing people didn’ t understand the obstacles that they prevented speaking a good gestural communication. Therefore, I began to introduce the manual alphabet of the Lengua de Señas Chilena( Chilean Sign Language in Spanish) at different frame rates to cause the confusion of images to the viewers unaware the gestual tongue. Just as
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