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GISELLE

This ballet show made me sad because in this show, we watch a female character who was bothered by betrayal loses her mind and dies of her fate, and then we witness her condemning the two people who caused it to dance until they die.

Also, the living and dead universe we witnessed in the first and second act of this ballet show as a show art is visually well presented.

The depth of the script, felt by the music, the lights and the acting of the dancers, gave me a sense of grief every time I watch it.

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Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum

By M Woods

Artistic Director and Chief Curator Victor Wang.

Since it is the most intense center of social media information sharing today, an online exhibition was organized to show that art is still here under pandemic conditions. The museum area is opened online on certain days of the week, organizing a fully visual tour for visitors. Since the museum is completely online during the quarantine period, it regularly collaborates with the artists. And it regularly opens it to an exhibition area. In such a period, exhibitions and artworks have shown us that art is still here and can actually continue online.

As a public museum, they ask how we then experience art during times of institutional closure: what are the forms that art and art museums must take when galleries become inaccessible to the public?

https://www.mwoods.org/11412271

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PROJECTION-interactive installation by TRIBE

The projector works with human interaction and uses the depth effect to show us illusions and in this way make us question reality. Since the artistic material of this design is the human body, it is a series of movements that occur depending on human movements and body. In terms of design, I found it very impressive because there is a subject that questioned us and it presents us with its reflection.

The installation creates a PROJECTION of the viewer:it digitizes and transfers the person to the installation canvas, where his projection begins to live his life, thereby hitting questions about the perception of himself and the world. 

What is more real: the world or projection that we see?

http://mediatribe.art/projection

http://mediatribe.art/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AWkLiHCNg&feature=youtu.be

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Culture

In this image, we see a coffee shop of American coffee shop chain Starbucks which located in Kyoto, Japan. The Starbucks in Japan are reflecting Japanese culture very well. They didn’t build and decorate them in classic way. They adapted it to their own culture. Such as, the materials of the structure and its design also reflect Japanese culture. When it comes to culture, I think of the essences that we need to protect and this example reflects this very successfully. People have lived for so many years and the accumulation of these years permeates our cultures. We must keep these savings alive in the right ways without losing them. Because what separates us from the others today is our cultural accumulation. If we are taking something from another country, if our goal is not to introduce its culture, we must adapt it to ourselves. This image shows me how beautifully and correctly Japan is doing this.

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Interdisciplinary Practice

 I choose an image from a ballet show which is one of my favorites. Its name is The Lady of the Camillas, by Svetlana Zakharova and Edvin Revazov, Bolshoi Ballet. Ballet is an interdisciplinary practice. Because, while you are dancing, you are not just doing some movements, also you are acting, feel the music and atmosphere, listening its music and there are people who play its music and record the scenes. Dance, music, acting, cinematography… In short, every branch of performing arts and more. For me, while doing ballet, you experience different emotions in every new piece. Only a ballet show can be successful when these separate disciplines that I mentioned work in harmony perfectly. That is why ballet dancers are expected to be talented in every discipline to shine on stage. We can clearly see and feel the passion between men and women in the image. Because it is reflected not only on their faces but also on their bodies.

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Hussein Chalayan is a Turkish Cypriot/British fashion designer and he was born in Nicosia in 1970. For constant struggles between the Greek and Turkish authorities, Chalayan and his family were forced to move to England in 1978. For that reason Chalayan has always been curious about what might be beyond borders. Thus, these considerations have played an important role in his making such futuristic and unique works. The unknown is of his interest. Also he started to question different issues thank to his youth life, like “how my identity changes?” As we saw at the autumn collection show of the year 2000, he made furniture that could turn into clothes. For instance, he transformed chair covers and coffee table into four dresses and a wooden skirt in that show in front of the audience.

The show proceeded as follows, a woman walks into a white room, advances slowly toward a round wooden coffee table, removes its central part and moves into the mahogany piece of furniture. Before pulling it up and fixing it to her waist. Then she walks around wearing the morphed, telescopic table skirt.

Making theatrical flourish in a simply way wasn’t Chalayan’s intention but to investigate the concept of displacement. As we saw on this work too, he was inspired by war refugees forced to leave their homes and carry their personal items with them. Still these days people are being challenged to reconsider their relations with the spaces in which they live in and their properties and the world is questioning how to become a home to everyone, Chalayan’s works still strikes a chord evet twenty years later.

Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Chalayan

https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/hussein-chalayan-2000-autumn-winter-fashion-show-1203660346/

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White Narrow Path, Gotenba by Kazuyuki Ohtsu, 2019

In this woodblock printing by Kazuyuki Ohtsu, he used the overlapping spaces to make us feel like we are looking a real / realistic environment. Also this woodblock printing has a perspective too. We cannot clearly see on trees but the road becoming narrow and smaller and we see faint tree shadows in the background. However, rather than Western artists, Japanese woodblock artists doesn’t use perspective like Westerns.

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青柳(Aoyagi) by Settai Komura

In this woodblock printing by Settai Komura, we look the space in a high viewpoint. So that, we able to see the inside of room and it is allowing the flat planes of the scene to overlap each other to create distance. This action make us feel like we are looking a real space without any direct perspective system. Abstract artists call this figure/ground effect ‘push and pull’.