11/12/13

**ACW: Embarrassments have always been part of our work.

A Constructed World: Embarrassments have in fact always been a big part of our work. I was kind of wondering whether this kind of embarrassment is being colonized or gentrified or something like that by being digitized so much and by being represented in a number of pre-formed kinds of ways. In some way, I think we were really interested in people doing things that they didn’t know how to do, like write, sing, dance; that includes a certain type of embarrassment as a revealing of something that you perhaps didn’t know. Like something related to the unconscious, using the unconscious in an effortless way, by being embarrassed.

Read more of Witness Christina Li’s interview with A Constructed World on Moderation(s): A Witness’ Blog.

Posted 11/12/13 11:00 pm