Hyperreality is actually one of the theory I found out that it is amazing. It changes my perception towards the world as seeing what is real into what is not. A question that may come into your mind as you reading this is what is hyperreality. Hyperreality is beyond reality. It is a state which you can't really distinguish what is real and what is not. To achieve hyperreality can be done through the moment you can't tell what is reality or simulation. Simulation is not just you acting yet pretending and experience what you are pretending to be. One example we had in our reading is, to simulate your sickness is not just saying that you are sick but experiencing all the symptom of sickness that you are simulating. This is simulation.
There is an artist playing with simulation and hyperreality- Nikki Lee. Nikki Lee is a korean performer artist based in New York city She has her theme what she wants to be and experience. In another term, what she wants to simulate her self as. For example, she simulates herself as an African American woman. She has to learn how to speak with African American accent. Dressing up like african american woman and live and think like them 24/7. She needs to have her own make up artist that can help her fake skin color. As you look at the picture below you will see no Korean woman anymore but an African American woman.
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| Nikki S. Lee as African American Womanhttps://blogs.wellesley.edu/arthafr316sp13/ |
Once Nikki has a theme to be a strip dancer she has to lose her weight to make her simulation to be as real as possible. So people can't really tell that she is simulating to be a strip dancer. When people can't tell whether she is feigning, that is when they achieve hyperrealism.
Now we have to think more what reality is. Is our belief real? It is real in our conscience. (That's how we say to ourselves) But is it real or it is just something we make. Doesn't our perception actually form our belief to be real in our conscience? Everything we perceive and translate came from our background. If you think about Ghost, some of you might believe it or not. For those who believe it would think that Ghost is real. But how do you know that Ghost is real. For me, Ghost is mythical. You can't prove it if it does exist or not. Even some people say that Ghost can be prove with technology. Yes, we live in technology world. It is the world where things can be faked by technology. Maybe it would be best by not believe in anything as it is real. Reality is no longer tangible.
Another thing we did in the class which is watching Borat. My instructor, Ajarn Taylor actually asked us why Borat is funny. So Borat is film call Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat came from Kazakhstan and was hired to act pretty much stupid like he doesn't know how to behave properly in America. What he was asked was to simulating that role. However, other people in the scene doesn't know that he is simulating. That is a funny part for us as a third party looking at it knowing everything. Seeing those people reaction toward Borat acting and they took it so serious. They can't identify that Borat is simulating. They are living in Hyperreality.(Well, those people don't know that he was acting) Borat can't be funny by himself without others' reactions towards him.
Sometimes, I wonder if things surround us is real or just another simulation. Or maybe there is no reality because everything we belief comes from our perception which it might be deceived. So what it real?
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