back


Haiku
neon tubes, transformers, electric wires
series of 6 works, dimensions variable
2007-2009
courtesy of Christine Koenig galerie Wien

Blondness is often a question of culture rather than nature. Hair color has long been a marker of intellectual and emotional qualities. Blondness became the physical incarnation of stupidity while the dominant portrayal of the blonde is someone who is sexually giving and somewhat dependent on men.
Blonds are one of the few safe targets for joking in a politically correct society. These jokes are usually misogynic and silly, asking the listener to imagine stupidities so incongrous as to be absurd. They emphasize stupidity and sexuality almost to the exclusion of other negative traits which constitute 4 percent of less of the corpus of blonde jokes, whereas stupidity and sexuality are 51 percent and 28 percent, respectively.
The rise of the blonde has been one of the most striking features of the 20th century. The jokes on them erupted during a period of radical expansion in the political and economic roles of women. Today, googling "blonde jokes" delivers about 1 410 000 hits.
Haiku is a collection of altered universally notorious blonde jokes. Using Google translate we transformed them from the original English language to Japanese and back. Due to inability to get the essence of the jokes, the automatic software created texts which lost their original content, but became charged with poetic quality resulted out of disfunction.

---