Title: Demythologize
Medium: Installation - Projection, wood panel, trashcan, and podium.
Date completed: 11/2011
Definition
Demythologize:
1.
to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms,as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding:to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modernlisteners.
2.
to make less mysterious or mythical so as to give a morehuman character to: to demythologize the presidency.
verb (used without object)
3.
to separate mythological, legendary, or apocryphalelements from a writing, work of art, historical figure, etc.
(dictionary.com)
Video note: Projection consists of a looped video of text: "words", "ideas", "opinions", and "traditions".