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I Didn’t Notice What I am Doing

PengYu

“I Didn’t Notice What I am Doing” (2012), raises questions about how we think and behave. It is an installation consisting of various sets of objects centered on the subliminal dimension that underpins everyday decision-making process and action. As an investigation into the way subliminal structuring determines human behavior, they created combinations out of which similarities arise as a matter of course ----a procedure they termed fake Darwinism, or the presentation of an ostensible scientific explanation by organizing the world through seemingly plausible correlations. The plausibility of such correlations is based on a process of visual selection that escapes the subject. This is said to help people in dealing with their uncontrolled need for safety.

Looking at the work, the triceratops conjures similarities with the modern rhinoceros, the two creatures belong to completely different species and there is no evolutionary link between them. Furthermore, triceratops, rhinoceros and macaw parrots all have morphologically similar upper jaws.

Exterior similarities make us spontaneously create some abstract connections between phenomena which are biologically very distant, allowing ourselves to ignore the actual lack of any scientific mutual relation between them. For example a red object held by some dry trees, or something which seems rusty but it's actually covered by shells and marine debris, a video showin

g a Koy fish swimming crazily in the water, these are all objects unconsciously chosen to be shown to the public.
Sometimes, as the title of the work implies, such connections are made purely intuitively and are not based on scientific facts.

我没有注意到自己在做什么

彭禹

作品“我没有注意到我在做什么（2012）”探讨了人们思想与行为的相关问题，该装置作品包含了诸多围绕着潜意识如何支撑人的日常决策和行动而组成的系列。作为对潜意识如何架构、决定人类行为的探讨，作品建立了由许多普遍存在的相似之物的组合——作为命名假达尔文主义的一个过程，或是对依据貌似真实的相互关系来塑造世界表面上的科学阐释进行展示。这种看起来有道理的相关性是建立在人们潜意识的视觉选择上，据说这有助于人类无法克制的对安全性的需求。观看这件作品，三角恐龙让人联想与现代犀牛的相似之处，这两个生物属于完全不同的物种，并在它们之间没有任何进化链结；而三角龙与鳄鱼龟与金刚鹦鹉都拥有相似生态的上颚。生态感的相似性发展出更多抽象的部分试图跨越更远的距离，例如一个红色被夹在树上的东西；一个看起来生锈又附着了很多贝壳海底物体；疯狂游动的锦鲤录像，它们都成为潜意识选择的因素被展出。很多时候，就像作品标题所暗示的那样，类似的联想是纯粹来自于直观感受，而并不存在任何科学事实的基础。


	I Didn’t Notice What I am Doing PengYu “I Didn’t Notice What I am Doing” (2012), raises questions about how we think and behave. It is an installation consisting of various sets of objects centered on the subliminal dimension that underpins everyday decision-making process and action. As an investigation into the way subliminal structuring determines human behavior, they created combinations out of which similarities arise as a matter of course ----a procedure they termed fake Darwinism, or the presentation of an ostensible scientific explanation by organizing the world through seemingly plausible correlations. The plausibility of such correlations is based on a process of visual selection that escapes the subject. This is said to help people in dealing with their uncontrolled need for safety. Looking at the work, the triceratops conjures similarities with the modern rhinoceros, the two creatures belong to completely different species and there is no evolutionary link between them. Furthermore, triceratops, rhinoceros and macaw parrots all have morphologically similar upper jaws. Exterior similarities make us spontaneously create some abstract connections between phenomena which are biologically very distant, allowing ourselves to ignore the actual lack of any scientific mutual relation between them. For example a red object held by some dry trees, or something which seems rusty but it's actually covered by shells and marine debris, a video showin g a Koy fish swimming crazily in the water, these are all objects unconsciously chosen to be shown to the public. Sometimes, as the title of the work implies, such connections are made purely intuitively and are not based on scientific facts. 我没有注意到自己在做什么彭禹作品“我没有注意到我在做什么（2012）”探讨了人们思想与行为的相关问题，该装置作品包含了诸多围绕着潜意识如何支撑人的日常决策和行动而组成的系列。作为对潜意识如何架构、决定人类行为的探讨，作品建立了由许多普遍存在的相似之物的组合——作为命名假达尔文主义的一个过程，或是对依据貌似真实的相互关系来塑造世界表面上的科学阐释进行展示。这种看起来有道理的相关性是建立在人们潜意识的视觉选择上，据说这有助于人类无法克制的对安全性的需求。观看这件作品，三角恐龙让人联想与现代犀牛的相似之处，这两个生物属于完全不同的物种，并在它们之间没有任何进化链结；而三角龙与鳄鱼龟与金刚鹦鹉都拥有相似生态的上颚。生态感的相似性发展出更多抽象的部分试图跨越更远的距离，例如一个红色被夹在树上的东西；一个看起来生锈又附着了很多贝壳海底物体；疯狂游动的锦鲤录像，它们都成为潜意识选择的因素被展出。很多时候，就像作品标题所暗示的那样，类似的联想是纯粹来自于直观感受，而并不存在任何科学事实的基础。