PUP students from BSBA MM 1-1 did a performance art called "Finding Nemo" in August 25 2012. In this piece, there's a fish inside the watered container with a small cup and invited viewers to participate by filling water from the container. As seen in the video, at the beginning of the piece majority of the people are just throwing the water in the stage. Near the end of their performance, participants refill the water to the container so the fish can be still alive.
Life is addressed directly in this piece because the fish is becoming a life symbol. Like government, art needs the participation of the many in order not to become the property of a powerful and narrowly self-interested few.
"Finding Nemo" commented on violence and abuse to life in my opinion. To be related to the theme "unborn" tell by Prof. Karl Christian Abalos. The fish as the subject of the performance art symbolize the innocent organism in which trying to kill by the environment and the water as the medium symbolize the that life gradually wasting by the audience. I was very intrigued by this piece of art. When I began watching the video I was not sure what to expect from the audience when they were encouraged to fill the cup with water and just throw away. As the performance progressed, people do not care about the fish inside the container they just care to what they do to the water that they have from the container. I was surprised by the end of the performance art that some people refill the container with water people still care about life even though they like torturing the fish. They just prolong the sufferings of the innocent organism. I feel that "Finding Nemo" is an important piece of art because it expose the violence and abuse especially to life.
