To what extent are mutual relations laid down in patterns and rituals and do they ever change?' To gain insight into the psychological motives and codes that make the Tee family tick, Tee sent her parents and sister a tape recorder with the request to fill a 60-minute tape with the stories they usually keep to themselves.
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The mixture of arbitrariness and pattern in the behaviour of the children, the threat coming from the fire and the uprooted bushes, the references to the dangers and dejection of a life on the street in the images of these far from needy children; all of these play a part, without clicking together into a clear, communicative story.
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The text, written by Melvin Moti, consists of an amalgamation of biographical notes and diverse information: both a reconstruction and a product of Moti’s imagination at once, it implies a virtual game based on a relation of similarity to the patterns of reality (in knowing the classic form of the interview), a tension between authenticity and imagination.
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And with her assertion that every position adopted by an artist is assumed to be serving the interests of some party or another, she seems to have concluded that the concept of a higher truth - the wider pattern of human behaviour in particular circumstances, which might tell us something about the greater world order in which we live - has moved far out of sight beyond the horizon.
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From organic, cultural, and industrial commonalities, the artists create large and concentrated works that signal-on an arbitrary scale-the degradation of messages that could be imagined as stating, “Humanely end the pain and vulnerability of those suffering,” but which are transmitted as a blast of silence that ricochets off the ceiling, drops to the floor, and moves up the wall to form a lyrical pattern of symbols in a vocabulary of familiar images.
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