Vampiric Battle
Tony Oursler my final artist of the week is a video artist who does work similar to Gary Hill and Bill Viola. The art piece I am going to discuss now is going to be Tony Oursler "Vampiric Battle" Now before you jump ahead of me and say something about Twilight or True Blood or anything like that, stop yourself because it's not. Vampiric Battle is a metaphor for the battle we all do with ourselves to stay young stay beautiful. Vampires as we know technically don't age. We are all in a battle with ourselves to stay young. We use different things to stay young like botox, makeup, plastic surgery, expensive creams, etc. It's all an illusion of youth and fertility and the innate desire to attract a mate.
We open the video seeing 5 different faces hearing voiceovers from all of them some saying "that's attractive, don't you think that's attractive?" we then see a lady who's going through the procedure of getting marked up by a doctor before she goes under the knife for plastic surgery. We all have to be honest with ourselves and try not to hide what we are by using makeup or different things to try to "lie" to society and just embrace what we already have. In other words "BE YOURSELF!"
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