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How to Get Rid of Homophobia and Sexism in Your Country (2024)

Darja Popolitova
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How to Get Rid of Homophobia and Sexism in Your Country is a performative video piece featuring the Drag Face Filter, created for the exhibition Magical Hotspot at Vent Space Gallery in 2020. The work explores pseudomagic through digital augmentation, performative rituals, and speculative identity transformations. In the video, the jewellery witch Seraphita applies a custom augmented reality (AR) face filter to official portraits of conservative politicians, digitally queering their faces with exaggerated drag features such as bold makeup and extravagant eyebrows. This act symbolises a ritual of resistance, challenging societal norms and confronting political authority through speculative digital adornment. The piece employs Haptic Visuality, blending tactile digital manipulation with performative gestures. The act of scrolling and selecting filters with long, manicured fingernails becomes an embodied ritual, making the interface physically felt through close-up shots and dynamic interactions with the cracked phone screen. This multisensory approach transforms the Drag Face Filter into a charged pseudomagical artefact, blurring the boundaries between political critique, performance art, and speculative jewellery. Idea and performance: Darja Popolitova Video effects: Ando Naulainen Sound: Andres Nõlvak © Darja Popolitova
typeresearch exposition
date16/12/2024
published16/12/2024
last modified16/12/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightDarja Popolitova
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3294006/3294007
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3294006
published inResearch Catalogue


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nameHow to Get Rid of Homophobia and Sexism in Your Country_ video effects Ando Naulainen, sound design Andres Nõlvak
copyrightDarja Popolitova
licenseAll rights reserved
usagesvideo

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