To see the use of things when you can’t find the meaning in them. | Dan Voh
Denmark—where you started this project—was the first country to legalize gay marriage. Denmark is also where you have lived for a long time. Through this project, you are trying to exploit certain structures of the institution itself, identity issues, and the paradoxes of the society live in. In what ways do you feel like a product of Western society? What happened in Denmark was that on the one hand, they invited gay people to adopt the heterosexual system, while on the other hand, they were cutting down the trees in the main cruising park of Copenhagen. This legislation was not an act of opening up society, it was an act of exclusion where gay marriage was used as an alibi. I always felt that marriage was a hangover from the past, and what I attempted to do was to try to make sense of it. To give it a meaning at least for myself. Ever since my parents found out I was gay they have asked once a while if I could help friends of theirs by marrying them pro forma, so they would have a way to come to the ‘West’. They saw it in a very practical way because they considered my choice of sexuality as inconsistent with the meaning of marriage. It’s this way of thinking I admire very much in my parents. To see the use of things when you can’t find the meaning in them. This project exists only because of a certain constellation of events, I don’t know if it’s Western or right. I just try to deal with the problems I’m confronted with.
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