Dehumanization / Performance

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it. A practical definition refers to it as the viewing and treatment of other persons as though they lack the mental capacities that are commonly attributed to human beings. In this definition, every act or thought that regards a person as “less than” human is dehumanization.

Dehumanization is one technique in incitement to genocide. It has also been used to justify war, judicial and extrajudicial killing, slavery, the confiscation of property, denial of suffrage and other rights, and to attack enemies or political enemy.

Performance: 2012 Gent – Belgium

Fear Industry

Taipei / Taiwan. 2020/11/14–2020/12/31

catalogus Fear Industry Taipei.Download

Museum of Modern Art, Taipei.

水谷藝術 Waley Art

waleyart  · Museum Modern Art Taipei – Taiwan.

Artists: Belu Simon Fainaru, Julia Kurek, Peter Puype, David Koronczi, Andrew Wasilewski, Thomas Wendland.

Concept: FEAR INDUSTRY. The title and poster are inspired by the work of Peter Puype. Fear has been one of the most effective tools for controlling people and entire societies. Fear of the facts. In becoming fact, it causes real actions, or lack of them, that push people into activity, or paralyze them physically and mentally.

* Work: ‘Communcation As Violece’ Video

Studio Peter Puype

We at ‘Studio Peter Puype’ are ready to challenge what the future holds.

“Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful – namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming”.

Richard Rorty

“Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality.” Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).