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'The most accurate words' for WIOP Vol.2

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Post-Grad Community Published date
07 July 2020

By Joo Young Lee, MA Painting - Camberwell College of Arts for Walls in Online Places Vol.2

My practice interrogates the distortion of perception through language.

The contemporary era is regarded mainly as the post-truth. We can find the boundary of 'truth' and 'untruth' or 'fact' and 'fake' has become ambiguous, which leads people to believe in speculations, without bearing the responsibility for proof. It could come from a number of partisan news and fake news. They use authoritative language such as frame, euphemism, censorship and cover-up in the media.

Following the study, I became interested in how does language as a tool of authority and power affect the perception of truth in the post-truth era. I think such language has an impact on cognitive perception, then it makes the public distorted. I present a visual realm using print, painting, poem, sound and installation to reconstruct such issues.

This work explores the framing words, which can cause cognitive distortion, frequently used in the news in South Korea. The elements, such as news sentence, dictionary, text image and irony title show this direction.

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This questionnaire is linked to my concept and work, and I would like to ask your opinion on the authoritative language you think. As postmodern theorists and post-structuralist (typically Michelle Foucault) point out, controlling language (i.e. controlling what is contained in language and who has the authority to speak publicly) is an important means of gaining and exercising power. I would like to question what an authoritative language is in the post-truce era and how language affects the public or people's perceptions and creates cognitive distortions.