you’re freaking out ok - 2017 . Rawson Projects
Pigasus is a reference to the 1968 campaign by the Youth International Party: Pig for President. Pigasus, a 145-pound domestic pig, was nominated for president of the United States as a theatrical gesture. Utilizing satire as a practical form of resistance, Yippies appropriated the idiom ‘when pigs fly’ in order to represent the absurdity of the socio-political predicament that Americans were coping with. Humor and theater became their peaceful and yet trenchant weapons throughout the protests.
Appropriating Yippies’ technique, my installation has become a response to our current socio-political state. A female superhero, my alter ego Ba Bi Bu, runs through alternative realities, while gazing at the viewer and exposing her tongue out of her mouth. She has brought the flaring Pigasus back once again: to save humanity, to ridicule the authorities. The other video piece in the exhibition is titled Depends on the Sun’s Angle. In that video, a female character is trying to operate a nose job with clear tape while taking selfies with a pig doll. The juxtaposition between the two pieces to me is reflective of the current state of mind that many younger people are struggling with. The abundant access to information and news combined with social media culture has resulted in a virtual sub-culture that is constantly trendisizing social actions.