Matthew Griffin

‘This was the reversal … you could get this dolphin, you could put the tattoo on it and set it back free’, offers the artist to the Australian philosopher Peter Singer in the hypothetical scenario that money from an art grant might afford the opportunity to save a Japanese dolphin destined for slaughter under the condition that it be tattooed. The two conversationalists meander back and forth in a rambling, ironic discussion surrounding various made-up ethical questions posed by Matthew. Simultaneously critiquing the role of art and the art world, the video-interface distributes across three channels—one fixed upon Matthew, another on Peter and a central channel fixed on the duo. The awkward technical setup and image production belays comical notions of artifice and representation within an age of information over-saturation. Common Sense delivers content, but what does the content tell us? What structures continue to gamify the production of visual assemblages?