FRAGILE SAGETY: A Public Performance by Susu Shuling Shih  (Taiwan) and Raffie Davtian (Aremenia- Iran)
The artists Ulrika Ferm (Finland), Guillaume Aubry (France), Nazeli Nazaryan (Armenia), Stas Sjelepov (Armenia) were involved in the  performance.

Charles Aznavour Square in Yerevan
4^th of December, 2008

In the Ancient Greece the ‘praxis’ and the ‘theory’ were clearly divided. According to Plato the shift from one to another was a Metanoya, a way which people had to pass to go out of the cave and to achieve a godlike view upon the world. Contemporary Metanoya by B.Groys is based on the opposite: Today, individuals form images of the world by the means of mass media; it’s a same like view upon the world.Today we are the eyewitness of the society’s growing visualization, the spreading of various image technologies, the grasp of presentation modes, and the globalization definitely is a perspective inspired by global media.

Meaning, not only the perception of present facts, but also our view towards the history is mediated by image technologies and by certain strategies of representation. The idea of the project is about how Government uses the media as a tool to control and lead the people. The project is connected to the mode how an individual relates to reality. Government uses words such as Freedom, Democracy, Liberty, Hope, Prosperity as ‘the better life’ for people as it knows these are the "things" that people want. These words as a trick to let people to have illusion to believe that they will be taken to there where they want to be. Government offers you a false dream, a false hope to believe there is a better place than here to create an illusion for the people so you can hold on that false dream to carry on in your life.

In Taiwan people read and hear through all the media to believe they can be better off by join China they can gain more prosperity and fulfill a greater dream. We are fed with false dreams until we are choked. It is important to relate this brief view of processes within the beginning of the great, social, civil movement in Armenia during the past several months and the fact of coherent actions of Armenia’s new rulers to crush this movement. It wasn’t a nation-wide movement; it was a social and civil movement, it was a struggle between two parts of society on one hand, and a struggle for democratic values on the other hand.

The most part of Armenian people didn’t take part in this demonstration of activism. A paradoxical explanation given by lots was that living in poor social conditions they couldn’t leave their everyday jobs for survival. Mass Media don’t tie the ideology of the movement with the social and civic consciousness. They view it as an organized fight to satisfy one person’s political ambitions…