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Project 4 : consumerism on display
I love how busy and cluttered your chosen environment is. It feels excessive and uncomfortable. I can definitely understand why a passing shopper would willingly look past your performance when there is so much going otherwise. Great idea!
The Feeding
For the final project I was inspired by Yoko Ono’s the cut. While I didn’t let people cut my clothing off I did have people feed me. Being feed put me a vulnerable position I couldn’t control how they fed me or how much.
I work at Casa Bonita, so I decided to walk around and ask my co workers to feed me sopapillas. And take a picture because it took longer than a minute to find people to feed me.
Thoughts and Reasoning:
Eating is something everyone struggles with. It could be eating too much, not enough, healthy or unhealthy. In our society a lot of pressure is put on food aka body image. To give away that power and to feel some vulnerability I say some becausei do know all the people I asked to feel extreme vulnerability I would have had to ask people I don’t know and well this was my place of work so I didn’t do that.
After living in China for two years and having my physical appearance, specifically my weight talked about and scrutinized almost daliy I have become more aware of the struggle. (I am a 135lb 5 ft 6in tall person...I think perfectly average)
What I did:
To push back at societies that think I’m too big or too small because in America I am often told I’m small and should eat more. I decided to give the power away and see what people would do.
I filled one basket with fresh sopapillas and I had another that was empty. I walked around Casa Bonita and every coworker I came across I asked to feed me or not it was up to them.
What others did:
Some feed me the entire sopapilla, some only gave me a bite, the most interesting was the ones who wanted me to spit it out after I took the bite. Some agreed to take a picture during but quite a few said they would feed me but wouldn’t take a picture with me. Making me feel a little ashamed, like it was a secret to eat. Harkening backs to eating and body image is a serious concern.
In the end:
I definitely tried to lighten the heavy body image mood with taking silly photos while eating the sopapillas.
If I could do something different:
I would have like to sit in one place and had people approach me to feed me, and have more people intentionally watching others feed me rather than whoever happened to be around as the audience.
I love this idea! There is an uncomfortable vulnerability in being fed, and these pictures capture that. I definitely see humor in these images, too. It speaks to how ridiculous the attitudes towards eating can be!
Project #4 - Performance Art
Artist Statement:
For my final project I wanted to base it on the themes of Identity and Failure. For this project those two themes go hand in hand. I wanted to show how we, myself included, tend to try and change things about ourselves to fit into a stereotypical form. We get plastic surgery, dye our hair, wear colored contacts, tan our bodies, etc. By doing this we begin to chip away at ourselves and our identity until there is nothing left of our original self to see. All the different layers you see added onto my face are traits and things that I have wanted over the years, some because I think they look more attractive and some just because I wanted to change it up. But the more you see things added my actual appearance beings to disappear, until there is nothing but a small sliver. This is end goal if I continue down my chosen path, and it has made me rethink things.
I'm impressed by how much some of the images seem to to fit in with your face and each other as they get stacked up! Your project reminds me not only of physical body modifications, but also "facetune" type apps used on social media that makes every average person look like a celebrity instead of their natural selves.
Theme: Failure
Technique: Live Art
For my final project i chose to put on a live ambient performance alongside Colfax in the middle of a Monday. I took a 5 second music sample from a meditation cassette and made a tape loop out of it. Then i rigged the tape player up to an app on my ipad and connected a portable speaker to it. The idea was to share a contrasting view of the calming meditation music and the buzzing traffic of angry colfax drivers. Obviously its completely drowned out by the traffic and all around noises and electromagnetic signals in the area and fails to calm anybody down. I sold my car 6 months ago and have been commuting via bicycle or skateboard for everything and its a much more relaxed and energizing experience than ive ever had driving my car down the busy (and getting busier) streets. When youre walking down the sidewalk you have time to stop and experience things. The loop snapped, or got twised or something during the performance and caused silence and electrical buzzing. Which i guess adds to the performance because everyone was moving so fast, they had no way knowing. And ambient music being so ambiguous as it is, i could have just kept that to myself. If i were to try this differently i would have liked to have more performers and some real musicians there to give a "sidewalk set" to anyone passing by slow enough to hear it.
I thought your project embraced the failure theme well. The failure to slow and and pay attention is definitely prevelant in our society, and your performance captures that. It's sort of like a different version of that question "if a tree falls down and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound"? If there's an artist in the city but no one stops to pay attention...
My idea for this final project was to bring something of myself into performing art. When I thought of the verb, tap, it made me think of anxiety, impatience, and procrastination. All things that I, and many others, deal with every day. So the story my piece tells is that in a day to day life I face it before I walk out my front door when I put my shoes on. Each pair of shoes is an expression of a different day, and the taping of my foot is the anxiety, impatience and procrastination. If I were to do things differently it would maybe take an approach where i took a video each day for a year so that you see a more visible passing of time.
I love this idea! I definitely this the endless tapping evokes a feeling of unrest and anxiety. I think that the use of dissolving transitions as well as the many different pairs of shoes helped indicate the passage of time. I think the sound of tapping would have made the overall effect even more successful.
“To Balance”- Project #4
Artist’s Statement:
I decided to choose the verb “To Balance”. I have recently been reading into chakra healing, which is all about balancing the energy pools within your body and spirit. Different yoga poses and different colors correspond with the 7 different chakras. Yoga is also physically about balance, so I think the two fit together nicely, artistically speaking! Some critiques I have for myself are that my camera angles are a little different in each shot, and so not all of the poses are visible in the frame. I also should have practiced some of the poses a bit more, because my form looks a little sloppy. It was a fun project to make, nonetheless!
Exercise #4
For project #3 I did bang bang I shot you down as the song with a recording of a dandelion gone to seed. Both of these things for me have a permanence because they are recorded now so therefor they are now forever, while also having this sense of ending. The song is about being shot down and being gone, and dandelions go to seed at the end of their life cycle and get blown away. They have a delicate existence.
I chose an extremely limited color palette with a “western” filter on it. I wanted it to be bright and dull at the same time. When the colors were vibrant and super saturated it was too happy for my theam of fragility, ending, and eclipsing.
The sun also plays a big role in this project for me because I couldn’t look at it while I recorded it but my goal was to have the dandelion; something so fragile and small eclipse the sun; something so big and powerful. To block it out without any harm to my eyes is also a powerful thought. This really harkens back to our reading in the way that video is a reflection of life and let’s us see and do things now that wouldn’t be possible with other media’s.
The filter you chose fits the mood of the song so well! This is an extremely simple video, but it evokes a lot of emotion at the same time. I like that your music related to the theme of your video, as well.
Project 3
Artist Statement: “Vanishing and Becoming, my dinner”
For this project I wanted to take the idea of “Vanishing and Becoming” quite literally through the life of my tomato plant harvest, as well as some associated chaos that can come along with transforming something into something else. My videos are all original because I wanted this to be a personal project from the perspective of the artist. My audio is all royalty free use sound effects compiled through Adobe Premiere. I’m inspired by the chaotic nature of DADA art, as well as mainstream ASMR videos. I kept my lighting according to my environment, with some adjustments to the saturation and highlights to emphasize the natural shadows of both environments. I have distorted the audio slightly for a more “natural” and chaotic effect.
I thought the use of sound and the simplicity of this video were really excellent! Perhaps it’s the settings of my computer, but I don’t see a big change in saturation from the average video. Although I appreciate the finished product, I think a little more play with light and color could have made it more visually interesting.
Used My own concept of vanishing and becoming in this video by having some friends ride my board and just kind of look like me to give it the effect
Project #3
Artist Statement: The idea behind my project was to ride my long board and vanish off the screen, then one of my friends ride on the screen kind of dressed like me. I went through different ideas that didn’t pan out the way I wanted to. Eventually I came up with this idea and I believe that it worked out the way I wanted it to. If I could have done it differently I would have had more people help out in the video just to make a bit better then it is now. I would also speed the video up more then it is now just to give it a better vanish effect
I enjoyed how whimsical this project was! I can’t help but smile at the big transitions. I think the whole video has an atmosphere of fun to it. I think that if you were to revisit this project again, it would be cool to see more variation in light or surroundings.
https://youtu.be/N0fg4KCdWVI
Project #3
This is beautiful! I am impressed by the patience it must have taken to capture this. A sunrise is the perfect example of something vanishing and becoming again. I also liked how your choice of song captured a certain emotion.
PROJECT #3
I love your use of sound, it’s so satisfying! Your video is simple and engaging, and I appreciated seeing the non-linear journey of your coffee.
Reading #4
Essay-
I am studying theatre and art, so I find the line that divides theatrical performance and performance art sort of blurry and confusing. This article helped shed some light on the subject, however! While the theatre certainly can be experimental and have something to say about society, it has a long history of being specifically for more elite classes of people. Performance art, as I understand it from this essay, is different because it forces present awareness on whoever will listen/watch instead of whoever can afford it. My favorite thing about theatre is that it has to be experienced in person and performance art is much like that. However, one script can be produced into any number of performances in theatre, while performance art seems fleeting and once-in-a-lifetime to me.
Film-
The part of this film that moved me the most was the artistic and personal relationship between Marina and Ulay. I thought their Relation works were all interesting, but my favorite shown in the movie was "The Lovers", where the two artists walked the length of the Great Wall to each other. Their split directly following the piece is what made it stand out to me, because it reminded me of the quote about performance versus acting being equivalent blood versus ketchup. There is real emotional trauma in the separation of these two lovers after going through so much together. Even though she wasn't being slapped or cutting herself open, she was "bleeding", and it made all the difference.
Artist’s Statement for EURYDICE
I am very proud of this piece! I was particularly pleased with my usage of color and light. I initially intended for it to be between 1 and 2 minutes (per the assignment), but I ended up loving so much of the footage with the music that I couldn’t bring myself to cut down more! In the future, I would make a stricter storyboard to stay within the time constraints. I would also pay more attention to continuity while filming, because I made a lot of silly mistakes that couldn’t be fixed in Premier.
I thought the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice would be a perfect avenue to showcase “Vanishing and Becoming”. In my interpretation of the myth, Eurydice vanishes not when she dies and goes to the underworld, but in the boredom of married life. She becomes again when she can dance freely!
EURYDICE- Project #3
Starring
Kylie Wood as Eurydice
Ian Rowzee as Orpheus
Drew Lascot as Hades
Music
“It’s Never Over (Hey Orpheus)” by Arcade Fire
Reading Response: Vanishing and Becoming
I found the connection between projection and death in this reading very interesting. The idea that art (in general) is a way of cheating death definitely speaks to me. Everything may be temporary, but at least in creating art (and broadcasting it to others) we can craft something bigger than a human life. I think it is in the sharing of the art, not necessarily the creation, that takes a projection from “vanishing” to “becoming”.
Reading Response: Time and Motion
I immediately connected time and motion to video and filmic arts. I spend a lot of time consuming media, especially film/television, so the motion and implied time in these projects are very obvious to me, and kind of obvious in general. That being said, I really enjoyed learning about motion and time in performance art and even 2D art pieces. Marcel Duchamp’s /Nude Descending a Staircase/ was an example that stood out to me because the movement in it is much more abstract, but still detectable. A piece I saw in an art museum in Japan last summer (pictured below) of people moving boxes from room to room seemingly endlessly is another good example of time and movement. Though the video did have a distinct beginning and end, the motion felt looped to me due to its repetition. I feel like this repetition also influenced the timing of the video, which felt very long. Having moved many times in my life, the movement of those boxes definitely reminded me of days that felt like they took forever!
