The British love their chippy, a beautiful piece of lightly battered fish with crispy but fluffy, triple-cooked chips. However, mixing a live, swimming goldfish into a smooth paste may be taking things too far.
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- Who is the artist who created this strange social experiment?
- Why was the experiment created?
- What was the result of the social experiment?
Who is the artist who created this strange social experiment?
Marco Evaristi
Chilean artist Marco Evaristti, widely known for his work ‘Helena & El Pascador’, exhibited the piece in 2000 at the Trapholt Museum in Denmark. The practicing architect gave each guest a blender filled with water and a lone goldfish. Museum visitors were given a choice:
1) Kill the fish by pressing the huge ‘ON’ button.
2) Don’t do it
Why was the experiment created?
Evaristti attempted to excuse his actions by saying: “It was a protest against what is happening in the world, against this cynicism, this brutality that permeates the world we live in.” Even though most (sane) people walked past the unappealing button, at least two goldfish were cast into oblivion.
The Museum explained Evaristti’s reasoning behind the artwork, saying: “The work is ultimately about a person’s journey in the world, in which Evaristti believes there are three types of people: the sadist, the voyeur and the moralist”.
“If a person is sadistic, he will press the blender button because he is capable of doing so.” “Is the person a voyeur who anxiously watches to see if others press the button?”
What was the result of the social experiment?
“If the person is a moralist, he will be enraged by the fact that there is an option to mix fish.” “In addition, the work does not have a single and unequivocal interpretation, but rather it is possible to look for many elements that point out the differences and similarities between the masculine and the feminine.”
According to the studio, “Goethe’s poem The Fisherman was found in a closet and served as inspiration for the installation on several levels. From the fish in danger of being dragged out of drinking water to the fatally seductive mermaid and the longing for Love. Goethe’s poem, The Fisherman, was in a closet and served as inspiration for the installation on multiple levels: from the fish in danger of being taken out of drinking water to the encounter with the fatally seductive mermaid and the longing for love. “
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Source: vtt.edu.vn