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Performance #4 Participation

5/10/21 10pm

For this performance, I used the participation of my partner and friend to help me collect materials for a collage. Those pieces created a 3’x4’ mixed media collage that was inspired by the artist, Hannah Hoch. I was having a hard time coming up with the participation aspect of my piece, but I felt as if it was a really strong symbolic piece, in the end. We all spent a few hours peeling through old magazines and cutting out whatever we wanted to contribute to the collage. This made for a really fun time hanging out, eating ice cream and being creative together. With all the isolation from covid-19 it really was such an affecting event to spend time with friends and have a piece of work to go with it. After we all cut out a good pile of materials, I arranged them on a prepared canvas with modge-podge. That part was harder than I expected so I stayed up for a while trying to incorporate all the pieces. It definitely was challenging to harmonize all of our pieces because all three of us had our own idea of what we were picking, but I thought that definitely added to the performance focusing on how our individual choices could be put together in a coherent beautiful piece of art. This piece is an existing tangible memory for this event although a small memory, really means a lot when I look at it.

Project #5 Open Work A Fucking Distraction (2021)

A Fucking Distraction (2021)

Artist Statement:

For my open work final performance, I wanted to incorporate my phone again. I decided to act out one of my biggest frustrations with the pandemic and consequently, working from home. I feel so incredibly distracted by my phone, once again! I wanted to show how frustrated I am with the distraction, so I taped it to the wall while I complete a full task, which was responding to applicant inquiries. With monotonous tasks I am even more easily distracted now. As my phone was on the wall, I was restraining it from myself, as is so hard for me to do as I work at home during the pandemic. I left it up for the whole task, until it was complete and recorded the whole thing. I did this as a final project for two reasons, I thought it showed my frustration and it was a way to physically take my distraction away from me, and I wanted to continue my theme with technology and the pandemic. I showed the before, process of taping the phone to the wall, and actually finishing the task in my performance, so I recorded the whole thing from my computer as I completed the work task. Once again, my biggest source of documentation was my phone which was something that I was not incorporating so I used my computer to record it. Luckily the way my home office is set up, I was able to show my taped up phone in the background the whole time which I thought was an effective viewpoint for my project. I honestly felt relieved and undistracted for the whole performance. This is something I should do more honestly as I work from home. Maybe it would help to have it wrapped in plastic wrap the whole day also, as I did in my previous project! The whole video is about 40 mins long, and I finished my task :)

Performance artist of the week #14- Howardena Pindell

Howardena is a contemporary artist from Philadelphia. She has a long and incredible art career and career as an educator as well. I love how her art goes over her process and addresses intersecting issues such as racism, feminism, violence, slavery, and exploitation. Above is her work from free white and 21 (1980).

Performance artist of the week # 13- Lygia Pape

Lygia Pape, Eat Me (Cómeme). 1975

Eat me is a 9min film by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. It consists of mouths spend up and slowed down while they swallow and spit fragments. Her commentary on the Brazilian culture and the commentary on the violence that was going on in Brazil at the time makes for a very strong performance.

Performance artist of the week #12 -Ayana Evans

Ayana Evans performing If Keisha Jumped off a bridge, Would you do it too? 2018

This is such an incredible performance that is reminiscent of so many New York performances of the past. It uses ice as a metaphor for cold feet, and walking through the city as she undressed and ended up in a bikini. The public performance really incorporated the viewers ideas and feelings as people catcalled her, judged her, and even tried to protect her.

Reading response #4

The other history of Intercultural Performance by Coco Fusco

One thing that interested me the most about the study of the performance by CocoFusco was that audience members that realized it was all a performance were chastising the performers for tricking the audience members…They were less worried that they had showed up to an inhumane exhibit of indigenous cultures. People who showed up, expressed their anxieties but still participated. This seems like a direct example of people not learning when history repeats itself. When people argued that the artists were “ungrateful for multiculturalism” the response that Gomez-Pena gave that “multiculturalism is not a gift given from whites but the result of decades of struggle by people of color”(14) As I highlighted in my video response, the native response was so much more relative to the experience. Some spectators even were policing how “native” the natives in the cage were a true experiment on how much people sexualized and objectified them and the experience from CocoFusco and Gomez-Pena. They truly experienced it all as people tried to even re-colonize them as they recollect from a performance in Argentina. In putting themselves in the position of being able to be “discovered” people truly tried to take advantage of the opportunity. Learning about this experiment and reasoning was a true example of how the power imbalance still benefits those in power and we have still not learned from it.

Artificial Hells Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship- Claire Bishop

When I read theories like this, I am so thankful art comes hand in hand with people who examine the intricacies of the practice. In the reading I thought it was so effective that Clare Bishop expands past active and passive spectatorship because as we saw in the performance by Cocofusco and Gomez-Pena. I love how she highlights how rich of vocabulary and theory we have for examining other aspects of performance and art- so performance art should be treated none differently.

Film Response #4 The Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West

In the film about The Couple in the Cage: Two undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, the artists document their performance through interviews, video clips and real documentation of the same spectacles people made out of indigenous people throughout history. At first you have questions like did People know what they were doing? Does everybody like a spectacle? The way the movie documented different people’s points of view through the interview piece showed truly just how majority of the white spectators had a totally different perspective of the performance as colonizers that they couldn’t understand the role reversal in a way. On the other hand, it was so effective to see how when BIPOC audience members had such a different experience and their interviews really showed a crucial point of the performance. So many of the audience members had a fascination with the performers being so into the objects. They really wanted It to fulfil that “other” narrative they had created in their own minds. The audience was so obsessed that they couldn’t understand or even recognize the performance was creating a separate narrative of being totally fictional people. I loved how the modern elements of the performance were SO confusing to people, and really confused as to what they expect the dances and music should sound like as they are “exotic” and what they expect “others” to look like, like the shaved legs, listening to music and TV. People really had a hard time knowing if it was real or fake. The role reversal that the performance artists created by being performers in the cage, but they are getting people to patriciate and be a part of their performance, was my favorite part. Everybody had such a dynamic part in this performance.

Performance Artist of the week #11

Anita Dube

Kissa-E-Noor Mohammed (Garam Hawa) 2004

I love this performance by Anita Dube. As she has a wide practice of work she has been apart of some very influential Indian activists and performance artists. I love how you can feel the activism in her work.

In Kissa-E-Noor Mohammed (Garam Hawa) (2004), she dressed up in male drag, portraying the nine ‘rasas’ (‘essences’ or ‘sentiments’) in Indian aesthetics through the character called Noor Mohammed.

Performance artist of the week #10

Lorna Simpson

Stills from corridor (2003)

Lorna Simpson is a multimedia artist who works in a wide array of mediums. The stills I have chosen are from a 13 minute film called corridor. The piece relates to home, dress, identity, slavery and race. I love her work and how truly effective and powerful she is in each and every medium. I suggest everybody visits her website it is quite impressive!

Performance artist of the week #9

Carmen Beuchat

Carmen Beuchat, Two Not One, 1975.

Carmeb Beuchat is a chilean performance artist that uses dance as her medium. I have not yet featured an artist that works primarily in this medium and i think it is important to include because it is a more traditional form of performance.

Below is a picture of her dance group she started called Natural History of the American Dancer.

Performance Artist of the Week #8

Molly Soda "I Would"

I am so interested in molly soda because of her use of youtube, instagram and tumblr. I feel like its such an important medium to include into performance art as it exists over many mediums.

pcardoza426

Material Agency

I flatten out a chunk of clay then proceed to poke it with a pencil. The movement is generally calm, but with a slight disinterested facial expression. The process combines my art practice with that of a more sculptural one. Coming from a drawing practice, expressing my ideas in a three dimensional format was a struggle. I have a weaker control in sculptural kinds of work, and easily fall back into my old ways. Taking ceramic courses, I found myself making flater works with carvings and mark making. The majority of my work involved messy and bulky shapes with carving made with a thin tool. This performance was in reference to that experience. The sole purpose of this project was a form of reflection on my relationship with clay.

https://youtu.be/t29Ln6XbgYI

The images include the clay on a table and infront of the window because of the way light shined through.

asophiajoy

you really showed how the material was affected by your maek. Simple but to the point. Great work!

taylorcozart

Material Agency

Artist Statement

Film, such a delicate medium that will only show itself under the most perfect circumstances. It is so delicate and vulnerable that even the slightest light leak renders it nearly useless for developing. With this in mind I wanted to quite literally expose such a medium that I hold near and dear to my heart. The live video or initial video is the exposure itself to the light where I slowly pull the film from the safety of its light proof cartridge, I nearly image the 24 exposures being lost as I slowly let the film enter the world of light. The video itself is a compilation of manipulations and actions that I place upon the film. These motions quite literally pained me as the avid photographer in me found this a tragedy but a necessity to fully understand just how precious film is. The end product was rather cathartic, eye opening and not to mention satirical at best. Here I am disrupting this material and photographing what is used to photograph. How odd it is to destroy a material and turn that heartache into an unforeseeable result of a fascinating sculpture of sorts. This medium is so deeply personal to me which is why I opted for a rather strange and unconventional material. I hope that others are able to reflect upon their meaningful material and feel the angst and tension that comes from this performance.

asophiajoy

you have done a great job disrupting the material. you truly destroued a material and we cannot see the result but that truly is the essence of the project.

Video response #3

ASCO got their name from the need to vomit- that is what was going around because of culture at the time. Since there was so much racism in LA at the time, ASCO was focusing on: How can someone create something that can be understood while being translated to the language of the audience? They tried their best to show up as radical as possible and it was not the norm. They were shaking up what was normal for that site. They used social situations to express their art. I really liked how _ used makeup to challenge image aesthetics and glamour as an art form. Even the imagery of being a male out of war at the time was something they challenged as well. They were formed through pressure as diamonds in thorough as people surviving their own childhoods in east LA. They continued to use experiences from their present experience to make art from. This is very important to situational and placement art.

cverdun

Project 2 Material Agency & Artist Statement 2

For this project I used the terms “to light” and “to arrange” from the verb list. I used a lighter to cleanse my barrio garden/alter with Palo santo and I arranged my alter outside. The materials were simple to find and most items I got at the dollar store. The important part is not where the items are from but the intention that goes into each individual item you choose and what it means to you personally or if it relates to a special loved one or ancestor. I would say I did not really know what to do at first and I kept going back and forth with this idea, but since this project had pretty general guidelines I said why not? I learned about barrio gardens in another class and I feel like this is a pretty universal concept that I put my own twist on. I feel like it is a healing process and my intentions for this project was to remember my ancestors and honor all those who have passed during this pandemic. I am very sensitive so this was a healing process as I have felt so much collective pain during these times as I’m sure others have as well. Connecting to nature is always a great way to ground oneself. Creating garden altars is fun, calming, and therapeutic.

samdavickart

This was a great way to combine your two inspiration verbs! I love how you connected your spirituality to the project.

asophiajoy

I love how you used so many materials here. all applicable! you arranged them, lit them, gave them purpose. I also like how you made this project work FOR YOU and worked through your pain and used it as healing.

edean5art

Part 1 to Material Agency. I will have part two up as soon as my wax is melted! I was/ am definitely confused about how this assignment was supposed to be completed but I used the materials that I had on hand. I decided that by adding the element of fire to my moldable clay, I would be taking away the accessibility of the material. From the looks of the candles currently, the outcome of my end sculpture will not go as planned.

asophiajoy

The action you enacted on the medium is so working and so effective. you are workin it! Love the background and setting as well. seems very well performed.

samdavickart

Project 2 - Material Agency

Ever since I began experimenting with sex, older men have continually taken advantage of me. Manipulated, harassed, abused, drugged, groomed, etc., the list goes on and on. I am so sick and tired of it all. Sick of being tired when I have only just gotten out of bed. Tired of the fear that each knock on my door could mean that my ex has found me. Sick of being touched when I did not ask to be. Tired of the tightness in my chest when I make eye contact with an unfamiliar man. Sick of being scared that someone else will expose himself to me in the bathroom. Tired of wondering what will happen next. Sick of my cries for help being categorized as “allegations”. Tired of having more layers of bullshit sediment repeatedly compounded on top of my trauma bedrock. Sick of my body and mind being perceived as a material upon which opportunistic monsters can exert their agency. Tired of being so anesthetized that I freeze and let these things happen. I am so sick and tired of being so sick and tired.

These were the thoughts which permeated from the locked doors in my mind while making this project. I created a kickboxing dummy from clay that embodied all of these experiences – all of the men that have damaged me psychologically. By ripping the form apart I sought to break down this all of this pain that I carry with me, leaving it in pieces scattered across the room.

metrostate0930-deactivated20210

For me, this was such a hearth felt performance. We often forget that men too are and can be victims of sexual assault or any assault. I think you conveyed what you wanted and what you wanted others to see very well. I see the frustration, I think this performance was strong, touching, and successful.

asophiajoy

This is such an incredible performance! Thank you. Your piece of clay that depicts a kickboxing dummy is so real. It seems so cathartic to perform your piece. I feel like this is a piece that could be performed by others as well.

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