APPARATUS 22 – EXCERPT FROM THE SCRIPT OF ALL (TO ALL ARTISTS THAT WORKED IN THE XXI CENTURY) | 2017 | SOUND INSTALLATION

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Crystal memo 8
July 3

Black hats
Black market
Black sheep
Black book
Black day
Black-and-blue
Black mark
Black look
Black eye
Black mirrors
Blackmail
Black magic – though the tension in this one sounds so beautiful

pretty much everything with the word black means something negative.
Is this racist? someone asked.
Well, I hink the racist act was not in coining these notions, but in assigning the terms “black” – with its figurative meanings of dark, strange and other, and “white” – with its figurative meanings of known, seen and light, to groups of people whose skin is “brown” or “cream” respectively.