Shock value

you the chance to do the same“ (Jancis, 2014). Ginsberg claimed that his response to heckling resulted in his best performance of Howl (Nally, 2013). Before my show one of my peers commented “first I am going to look at your penis and then I 'm going to look at your mind” (Carrack, 2014). So far the purpose behind my nudity has not been for shock value but I am aware it risks overshadowing the content of the work in the minds of members of the audience. Recently Guerilla Galleries had an installation ‘Forbidden: Clothing Optional’ in East London where visitors were encouraged to view the show nude. Anthony André, the gallery director, stated the “aim is to prove there are no boundaries”, except there was one. “We’re asking people to hand in their phones. If anyone is caught taking photos, they will be ejected immediately” (The Telegraph, 2015). Despite ‘Hair’ famously having their cast naked in 1968, it seems nudity is still considered shocking in 2015. I question what risks I am prepared to take with my work and what will restrict my actions. Why was I prepared to be naked or drenched or stained with ‘blood’? It was not only to shock. I might be the first in my year to be naked for an examination but I am hardly breaking new ground. My examiners even asked me not to actually cut my tongue out. I hadn’t been considering it. Self-mutilation during performance is a boundary I am not tempted to breach. While Lucy believed that being willing to take one’s clothes off during a…

Before the start of the experiment a Slight shock of 45V is administered to the participant in order to show him what the Learner will be experiencing and to further portray the experiment as authentic (Milgram, 1963). However, the participant is not aware that this will be the only real shock in the experiment. The confederate will not be shocked because he is an actor in the situation (Milgram, 1963). He does act as if being shocked, however. In the Voice Feedback condition the Learner starts…

necessary, who cares if they wear boxer briefs or tighty-whities. Their clothing appears to be as if it has not been washed for a while, torn, dirty t-shirts with crude words written across their chest. Furthermore, clothes are getting more provocative, they show more skin and it’s sending the wrong message. According to Tracy Stanciel, of Chicago Now, the parents are responsible for the way their daughters dress due to the fact, they allow them to. Parents buy the clothes and therefore,…

As the tension doesn’t drastically rise before the explosion the shock is raw, which unlike some war films, doesn’t romanticise the violence. This could be seen as a more accurate portrayal of violence, as all the deaths are shown as equal, with no one character having a long, dying monologue. The equality of deaths could also be an emphasis on how war does not discriminate and it is not a battle between just soldiers as the lives of many innocent civilians will always be taken too. The camera…

It was October 9th, 2013, the day that I and my family moving to the United States from Vietnam and started a new life here. I heard and learned many things about this country before but I was astonished experiencing the country myself. As soon as I discovered there was nothing like I expected, I was anxious and homesick. I wondered how long it would take me to adapt to this new culture and the people. Only a couple months passed, but I already experienced several culture shocks such as…

Our data cover sixteen major industrial sectors from nine countries in the Trans-Pacific region. We apply a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) approach (Bernanke, Boivin, and Eliasz, 2005) to reduce the dimension of our data and to simulate the transmission of shocks from the Trans-Pacific region to the US. FAVAR has two advantages compared with traditional VAR. First, it can incorporate a broader set of information related to the unknown transmission mechanism by utilizing…

There would be a hole from the memory being erased, such as in the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind when Clementine said, “Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!” This was tested when a scientist played a tone for a rat before it was shocked. On an episode from the scientific podcast Radiolab titled "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat" Jad Abumrad said, “The moment it hears the tone and feels the shock, inside its head, a bunch of neurons start to build. Whenever…

a hat to determine what role they would play in the study. However the drawings were rigged to infer that the true participants became the teacher and the accomplice was always the learner. Once the participant assumed their role the learner was taken into a room next door, and with the participant watching, he was then strapped to a chair with wired electrodes, which was connected to the shock generator in the next room with the teacher. Once the learner was attached instructions of the…

hives, and/or decrease blood pressure. Anaphylaxis can cause the contraction of bronchial smooth muscles and edema in the throat making it difficult to breathe, eventually causing death. This is due to the peripheral pooling and tissue edema, following vasodilation and increased vascular permeability. Anaphylaxis is also referred to as anaphylactic shock and can be treated through the use of epinephrine when administered intramuscularly. The administration of epinephrine can reverse airway…

else thinks instead of having their own opinion. People fear authority and afraid to say no, but there are also people who are disobedient, think they are above others, and are sick of listening to authority. During the milgram experiment, a yale professor conducted experiments to study authority to obedience by violating patience conscience. The experiment consisted of fake shocking to actors while studying the reactions of patients “Of the forty subjects in the first experiment, twenty…