TPG, do you have a personality? Who are you? Please elaborate on your existence.
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Adamant memer and introspective he's one of my favorite members on the forum.
Introspective? Based on what?
Although most of his conversations lack depth(which is refreshing), it's solely by choice and not because he isn't capable of intellectual discussion.
Have you had an intellectual discussion with him? He seems so far more like a self meme-shielder who doesn't want to be known beyond that for who knows why. Is it that he doesn't see the point? Is it that he doesn't want to be torn apart by becoming too known, similarly to how Mirage brought up how posts "leave a mark"? Does he prefer to be seen as enigmatic? Is he simply lazy and non-committal?
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I listed the same reasons, I couldn't however give you more than the vague examples I've already listed
No, you went back a foot or two, looked down like you were lost, and sounded surprised about how you couldn't think of anything about him. You at most mentioned something about him knowing himself, but when asked how you knew that you were at a loss for words.
TPG creates performances and conceptual artworks. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and memes, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations and social dynamics.
His performances are saturated with mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and the consequent loss of value and meaning.
His works never shows the complete structure. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he tries to increase the dynamic between forum menbers and himself by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences and the internet subculture as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family problems and violence, he tries to shock with language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly.
His works are on the one hand humorous, on the other hand painfully disgusting and subversive on a social and cultural level. Again and again, he leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and has to reconsider his biased position.
His works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualize reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By investigating language on a meta-level, he often creates several practically identical works.
His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction online. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. With a conceptual approach, his works references internet memes as well as the radical islamistic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His work urge us to renegotiate performance as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society.