Polina Isurin

Polina Isurin

  • About
    • Bio
    • Resume
    • Contact
  • Paintings
  • Installations
    • Beyond Translation: Moving Between/Across/Through Languages as Part of a Research Practice
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    • ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Ethical Manipulations- Video Projection
      • Justice- Video Projection
    • Rootlessness
      • Text & Photo Documentation
      • Rootlessness recording
    • Buried Secret (Obelisk for the Future)
    • Azores, Portugal
  • Writings, Videos, Mixed Media
    • Mixed Media
    • Writings
      • Obelisk for the Future
      • The (Un) Consumable
      • XY
      • Dокuмент [x] along with artwork 'Nonfunctional Green Card for The Gulf War'
    • Videos
  • Community Murals (in collaboration with students)
  • Archive
Ethical Manipulations
video on loop

Our morals are guided by what we know. Words are pliable and often ambiguous; they may be stretched, misused, and manipulated. As citizens, we use our knowledge of certain terms to defend our actions and our beliefs. If a language is new to us, then our expression of ourselves and understanding of the world around us may be limited and conflicted– we are forced to translate and navigate this new world with a great level of uncertainty. Have our morals changed if we do not understand the language? Are we willing to abide by a word or phrase we do not comprehend? Are we willing to let someone else defend our beliefs in a foreign language and, most likely, guided by different beliefs from our own? Are we willing to manipulate, or let someone else manipulate, our ethical code?