The Other/I don't know you. was initiated in SKITe/Sweet and Tender residency programme in Porto, and has been introduced in several places of Portugal since 2008.
+Teatro Carlos Alberto in Porto, Portugal
+Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória in Porto, Portugal
+Institute Franco Portugais in Lisbon, Portugal
+Collectionnoir in Porto, Portugal
+KingKong in Porto, Portugal
Introduction
The installation called The Other/I don't know you. consists of hundreds of plastic cups. Each cup signifies our each own face. There, how do you find a only one "crying" cup in the numerous "smiling" cups? The Other/I don't know you is a question to our perspective: how to see the Other, how to live together with the Other.
Photos
Institute Franco Portugais(Lisbon) - 2008
Institute Franco Portugais(Lisbon) - 2008
Collection Noir(Porto) - 2009
KingKong(Porto) - 2009
Text
In our daily life, according to making a relationship with infomation we already know, we realize any kind of things.
So, we get a fear when we meet up unknown things.
In the darkness where no light can reach, we never arrive to rest.
This action(or auto-action) is because of to keep our security. Thus, often this action let us realize even “unknown things” as “known things”.
Sometimes a consequence of this process appears as “misunderstanding” in our communication.
What is the discrimination? What is the racism? What is the war?
Even more, who is the Other?
The Other is not me.
The Other is different from me.
The Other is coming from where I do not know.
The Other is unexpected.
The Other is impossibilities and possibilities.
Although, we have to live together with the ohter.
So we have to listen a voice of the Other. We have to confront a face of the Other.
Always the Other asks us, “Don’t kill me.” It is the beginning of our ethic.
I do “not kill” the Other. Therefore we can live together with the Other.