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For the love of god
The indigenous tribes whose nations these trains will run through gonna get a say and some money from this? Because if they won't than I don't want this. This map runs through indigenous land (well, its all indigenous land but you know what i mean) at several points. We can't continue to trample indigenous land rights over a fucking rail system, no matter how useful it may be.
And on that note, stop Line 3.
The rail lines should only be on native land if it benefits natives and has been approved by the native tribes who own that land. I’m sure having train stations in their land would be useful af for them, but for fucks sake please don’t build without their permission and bulldoze their land.
The World Stands in Solidarity
Italy
Germany
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Japan
New Zealand
Sweden
Netherlands
Denmark
Ireland
Syria
Brazil
Iran
I've always found it intriguing to think about all the billions of simultaneous events happening around the world at any given moment. All the various things that are going on in people's lives and how varied they are...especially if you contrast people from different countries and social stratification. How would that look? How would that open my eyes to what goes on around the world? And to the privilege that I enjoy every day? It begins here with this little tiny project that I did for the assignment which was to perform a one-minute, live performance that we documented with video or photography and then post. I asked friends to video themselves for a short period of time at the very same time and day and then I compiled the videos. I was the common moment in the video. I hope it is as interesting to you as it is to me.
Exercise 3, Verb List and Sketches to Accompany
Reading response, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
I totally agree with Marina Abramovic that energy can be felt without words.
Just stand on a crowded platform waiting for a subway train. No words. Only energy. Only strain and tension and pain.
Her performances don’t work without an audience. The audience completes the performance.
The reaction from the audience completes the performance.
Especially in The Artist is Present. It’s a circle.
Everyone wants a reflection and she provided it.
Performance art is so fascinating and I love it because it’s art wholly mixed up in emotion.
No mistake. No hiding from it. 2D Art can be art for the fun of it or because it hides a deep secret but performance art certainly is the next level in art as far emotion goes. You can’t watch a performance by Marina abramovic and not be disturbed or upset or intrigued.
Ps it’s admirable to me that she has a sense of humor as well. That humor is an emotion that she doesn’t feel degrades her art when she makes a crack here or there in regards to her art. She has taken a bitter childhood and worked through her emotions so fully and recognizes the pain and has used it so functionally. Amazing.
Artist statement: I thought a lot about vanishing and becoming and what those things mean by definition and abstractly. I was intrigued that ‘become’ meant to “begin again”. Hence the butterfly image. And for 'vanish’ I chose 'vanishing point’, which morphed into train tracks and related images. I appropriated (which felt a lot like stealing after all I’ve been taught growing up about plagiarism) all the images. And my son is the songwriter again. It’s my first attempt at video art….it was kinda fun.
“One day, a long time from now, you’ll cease to care any more whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.”
— J.D. Salinger (via alecshao)
Exercise #3 Music Video
It’s me...so I chose a video of something from nature, starlings flocking, and put it to music written by my kiddo (he’s eleven).
Reading & response #3
I think it is inevitable that we as humans are so fascinated and intrigued by time - it impacts us all so profoundly yet we have no possible way to influence it. And when artists use time combined with motion it becomes such a fascinating study of so many things - what a human is capable of physically and mentally, what others are ignorant of, the juxtaposition of time and motion among other things...it’s an immense subject and again, no wonder that it is a common subject in the art realm.
Projection does as in archeological, mythical and psychological and also as something that shines into the plane of reality via light seems that it is something that we have become aware of what we haven’t been aware of before.
Meaning, we somehow knew there was a possibility to preserve pieces of ourselves - fingers via sprayed charcoal - or images via reflections, and that has evolved through the invention of recording devices into the video and ultimately projection of images. (I can’t help but think of the literal flicker of the cinema projector when I say “projection”)
The question to me, is how do these flickers and light beams influence our souls and hearts versus the still, quiet images? How does that interaction make us respond versus gazing at the serene landscape of an oil panting or the intense cubes of a Picasso? Does the artificial light, the constant flutter and shutter create a different relationship with the viewer? Does it make them want more? Less?
When things are happening in front of us via light and projection are our brains happy, sad, indifferent?
Project #2: The Loop
I kind of have a love-hate relationship with technology so instead of using digital images to create more digital images I used my own artwork to create these kaleidoscope gifs. Kaleidoscopes are sentimental to me….my mom collected kaleidoscopes when I was little. They were all over the house. They always fascinated me. I loved looking at them. Since the internet is so well, digital, I thought it might be refreshing to incorporate handmade art into the digital realm. I hope you enjoy and well, don’t have a seizure instead.
