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Day 6: Fecal Matter

published on 6 August 2017

For day six of their subversive Tumblr curation, artists Fecal Matter share their audio visual project 'Provoke Society'.

For day six of their subversive Tumblr curation, artists Fecal Matter share their audio visual project 'Provoke Society'.

Project: Provoke Society We use social media to capture our everyday life. Society’s need for fame and attention has transformed the way we use smartphones into a tool for self absorption. It feeds into everyone’s narcissism and egotistical desires. The fluidity of filming one self and immediately posting it for the world to see is ultimately the end of privacy and the beginning of public invasion through self promotion. We use instant filming as a tactic to express all those things, but mainly to provoke mass society. We want to present alternative lifestyles to the mass consumer in hopes of provoking a critical thought process. Mass media culture offers the opposite; products that reduce thought, products that raises no questions nor answers. Products that induces fear, while disguising itself as protective and safe. We’ve been in their position before and always wanted a way out. Our videos promotes that way out or at least, presents our process of finding freedom within this prison of life. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Fear is like a disease. It effects everyone. Yet fear is not physical, it’s all just an illusion. It’s a feeling we have all concocted in our minds. Fear is something society invented to make us all draw inside the lines. We are made to believe that without fear, there is chaos. We play with the idea of fear a lot in what we do. It’s fascinating to watch people fear an outer appearance, an aesthetic, a garment, a makeup idea, a shoe, our bald heads…. But it’s even more interesting to watch their faces drop once they talk to us, or get to know us; watching them realize that we are human just like them. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Instability makes society question their surroundings and themselves. Without uncertainty there are no questions. In a world with no questions, there are no answers. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Plastification of the human mind These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Piss God These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society In this video, we spent the day with Grace (Steven’s mom). She doesn’t go out much but we took her to some museums. The whole day people were laughing and staring at us, which is normal at this point. We captured one incident on film. A group of girls laughing and pointing at us and secretly taking pictures of us. Obviously they wanted to get a good pic to share on their social media/friends about the “freaks” they encountered on the streets. They were yelling mean things but stopped when we starred them down and started to film them. They got so uncomfortable and walked up to us and started to create lies about needing to take a picture of us for their school project, all while laughing at us.It’s hard dealing with these scenarios in front of your parents. Obviously, these girls are harmless and just trying to power trip as a group but we go through worse and so many go through even more humiliating/dangerous experiences. Mass society has the tendency to dehumanize anyone that is different from the mold. We need to come together and address these issues and simple spread awareness. Even though it hurts, it’s important to provoke society and challenge the norms at all cost. Steven’s mom Grace realized that today and although she worries a lot for our safety, she understands the meaning behind what we do and what anyone who challenges the norms do. So she truly learned something amazing today. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society September 5, 2016 These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Purchase this top here These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society The public is always there. Their eyes menacing. It’s impossible to escape. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society Day looks These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society No one is watching These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
Project: Provoke Society I only fear death when I think of someone else that is close to me. I don’t fear my own passing. Perhaps one day I will. But I don’t think it is something to run away from. If I was scared of death I wouldn’t do what I wake up to everyday. These videos are actual memories and stories of our real life. We post our vulnerability everyday. Documenting our lives on social media. This is our reality show entitled ‘Provoke Society’. (All content of this video is created by Fecal Matter)
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