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Project 5 Open Work
I thought this was a really cool performance because while it might seem like it’s just a video of you doing your make up, every TikTok, every video, every Instagram story is a performance. Also love your makeup and how well it coordinates to your sweater, very beautiful 😊
PROJECT #5 :) Lovers Timeline
For this final project I wanted to create a performance that was very playful (but not in my expression????) and stuck to my light nature of this semester. Im calling this performance Lovers Timeline, what i have done here is sewn a couple of pairs of underwear from different exes together and then put them on in various ways. For some reason, i seem to keep acquiring other peoples underwear. Usually I’ll just sleep in them, but i thought maybe it was time to utilize all the undies before I tossed them…Hope you all enjoy this slightly awkward video and I hope you all have a great summer!!
This was my favorite performance of yours. It’s funny and clever and just a great idea. It’s been fun watching your work this semester I appreciate the lightness！
Meet Melly 🍀
Project 5-
Artist statement-
I decided for project 5 that I would document my day to day life on tiktok kind of as an experiment/journal. I quickly realized that everyday documentation was a bit more of a commitment that i originally thought and decided just to capture moment where I really felt happy. I currently live with my fiancee in Meriden, Wyoming in a farm house on my parents cattle ranch. I recently moved here from Denver so my life has changed a lot recently, all that on top of being 24 weeks pregnant has been a lot, but so rewarding and I can honestly say I am the happiest i’ve ever beer. This project was really fun to do and I will always love and cherish these videos. This is the first video I will be posting the others in separate posts because for some reason it wont allow me too on here, but I will label them all. This first video is of my dog Fieldy and our new bottle calf Melly, she currently just lives in our yard and us best friends with the dogs. Such a pure and sweet relationship, consistently makes me happy.
This was great, I love idea of documentation as performance art, and I love all the happiness and abundance radiated from this project.
Project 5
Artist Statement
For this assignment I decides to keep things simply and simply explore what’s been on my mind lately. I’ve been thinking about childhood memories that are a mix of happy and unhappy memories. One’s childhood is a time for development, and when bad things happen during your childhood, that’ll affect your development. This idea of these memories both making us who we are and also just constantly on our minds is something I wanted to focus on for this project.
To express this idea, I had a teddy bear represent these memories. It supposed to seem sinister or up to no good and docile at the same time. I wake up from a dream, eat breakfast, take some pills, and go back to sleep. At the same time this bear seems to always be there.
Personal Notes
I’m not too happy with this project. I like this concept but I limited myself because of my lack of time. I hope to revisit this work one day.
I love this idea of the teddy bear acting as a shadow almost. It’s a great way to visualize what you have been thinking about. The trauma of our childhoods follows all of us into adulthood and it’s important to reflect and process it, even though it’s so difficult to do. I really admire how you have been using your art to address and process what you have been through.
Project 5
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Artist Statement: For the free work project I continued with the drag performance aspect. I feel like maybe its a push to consider it performance art since it is a highly edited and compiled video. I had a lot of fun with this project though from recording takes with multiple angles. I enjoy the process of clipping videos and creating, essentially, a music video. It is a fun way to add another element to my drag and be expressive. It feels like a good middle step to getting comfortable performing in person as well. I have really enjoyed having this semester to play, explore and practice with drag and take an artistic route to creating performances and engaging with others.
This is awesome. I have really enjoyed your work this semester and how you have stuck to a cohesive theme. It’s been so fun to watch it progress and I hope you continue to make this an integral part of your art practice going to forward!!
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 :)
This was a great performance! This is so relatable and I definitely feel your pain. There are so many distractions, literally in the palm of our hand. I like how you make the video so long, as it really builds the tension and plays on your idea of getting things done and the difficulty of ignoring distraction.
Performance Art Project: Open Work
These past few weeks have been very stressful for me (and I’m sure for all of you too). I have felt like I’ve been restricting myself creatively and I wasn’t sure what to do about it. That’s why I decided to kill two birds with one stone for this performance. The painting in the video was due for my beginning painting class today (Thursday) and this was filmed on Tuesday. I’ve been very stressed about this painting and so I thought recording my process would help me connect to the piece more. For some reason, seeing myself paint helps me feel more involved with the piece. I think it allows me to finally “see” myself creating art. Sure, I can see my hands create the work, but the out-of-body experience you have seeing yourself create from a third person perspective is eye opening. I never noticed how much I move my face when I’m focused on something. No wonder I always have a headache after. Anyways, I thought this would be cool to do since we never really get to see ourselves when we are really focused in on something. I don’t know about you all, but whenever a camera is on me I always acknowledge it. However, I forgot about it for this performance. I painted and forgot the camera existed. That was until I started getting frustrated with the area I was working on. Aside from that, I found this to be a very freeing experience.
And for anyone curious, here’s a photo of the finished product. I replicated The Stroll by Claude Monet :)
This way awesome to watch! I like how you chose to record yourself painting and I appreciated how in your artist statement that you just kept painting until you forgot the camera existed. Sharing this gave the new performance new depth, as that shift is visible in the performance.
Final Project/Artists’ Statement
Hello my peers, here is my coworker Cindy coming in clutch with another contemporary dance for us.
Statement: The things our body and mind can do when trained is absolutely amazing. For the past few months, I have seen amazing and touching performances through my classmates and got to learn more artists on this subject. This is a dance that we also choreographed (I tried dancing and I looked like a big mommy blob, so I took myself out of the video, don’t worry I still love myself), wanting to show just calmness, feelings, just Cindy being Cindy, life goes on etc. Let’s dance, just because we can, just because we are living, just because!
This performance makes me want to dance! It’s such a great way to express ourselves and provides such a calm state both mentally and physically, and this performance really shows that. Great choreography 😊
Final Project #5
TW:// light mentioning of sexual harassment
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In these performative images I explore the world of intimate objects in the presence of flesh and the multiple meanings of a cold, lifeless, and careless hand. For my final project I wanted to photograph a performance and create unsettling images. Initially I was just looking for a reason to use my Sears mannequin hand but then I realized this performance took on a life of its own. Hands are such an interesting part of our body and allow us to feel pleasure and pain. Too often are women being guided by the force of the patriarchy in the sense of self agency which I feel can be portrayed in these images. This concept of not asking to be touched or (but being touched on the bus) not asking for someone to cat call you (but strangers call at you while you are on the light rail) can be viewed as this idea of unwanted attention or “affection.” Another interesting and introspective lens is my own personal struggles with the idea and sensation of touch. For as long as I can recall I have flinched at a hand on the head, a tap on the shoulder and so much more. The thought of unwanted touch or even touch in general makes my skin crawl and is physically painful which can make meaningful relationships difficult. I grew up in a loving and caring environment (which I am privileged to say as many do not) and thus this frustration with touch comes from my own sensory issues most likely stemming from my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Furthermore I have found myself struggling more with touch as I grow older and see (mostly) men fawning over women, like myself and many others, and I become fearful of their intent. Touch controls so many aspects of our lives whether we are aware of it or not. These photos show a tragic, lamentable, uncomfortable, and yearning sensation of touch and my wish to either deflect or receive it.
I really loved this project Taylor! The images that came out of it were amazing. I really resonated with your artist statement and meaning behind this project. Your photos reflect your intentions. It’s been so awesome watching you create such fantastic work this semester 🥰
Performance artist of the week 14: Senga Nengudi
Senga Nengudi is Colorado based multi media artist working in both los angles and New York. She is best know for her sculptures that are abstract in nature that combine found objects and choreographed performance. She was one of the most influential artists working with in the black arts movement of the 1970s. Throughout her career her work as been focused on highlighting black experiences and womenhood through movement, space and the function of ritual.
Final performance
Artist statement:
For this project I was inspired by both our site specific and our material agency project. I wanted to create a work in which the location and material were both integral. Like my site specific project, I wanted to give back to and honor a space that I take so much from. The space I chose for this project was my cabin. This cabin has been in my moms side of the family for 8 generations. We spend about a total of a month or two here over each year, however for me, this has always been more of a home than any permanent residence. This space has given me so much as I have grown—a space to play, to be safe, and to explore. It has allowed me to form a deep love for the natural world and a connection to my ancestry. As a family, we spend the month of may giving back to the space to prepare it for the summer. We do this by primarily repainting and cleaning but this year I wanted give more, to give a gift. With all of this in mind I decided to record and perform the act of planting lavender, the flower of devotion, as a gift to the space that has continuously given for almost 150 years. Through this act i interact with the materials, digging the hole, planting the lavender, scooping and shaping the dirt, and pouring the water from the river. This act is both a thank you and a reminder to keep fostering and nurturing this space. To continue to do what it has done for me and my family through out our lives.
Artist statement- This piece is of me and my sister blindfolded both drawing flowers. For this project I really wanted to explore how the two of us think differently as siblings. I wanted to take something simple that we both used to draw all the time and examine that. You can see the vast differences in us just through this short video. Not only in how she chose to blindfold herself, but in how she is using an iPad and I am using a pen and paper. This is intresting to me because you would think something as simple as drawing a flower blindfolded would be really similar, but it wasn’t. in life she is much more technical than me, she is a bio science major and I think that this simple clip shows that well. I really enjoyed this project and it was interesting to make. When looking at the actual flowers themselves they show our styles and personalities as well. She has always drawn that way and so have I, so that was interesting to see as well. The flowers are also slightly similar, we started with the petals then went into the stem and leaves.
I loved this performance and I thought this was such a cool and innovative way to document sibling differences! Sibling relationships are so interesting, it’s crazy how you can share dna, be raised by the same parents (potentially) and turn out so different.
Project #4: Participation
This project was, in all honesty, the most fun I’ve had in this class. For my performance, I decided to play Super Smash Bros Ultimate with my boyfriend. He doesn’t really like being on camera but the fact that we were playing one of his favorite games made him more willing to make an appearance. We’ve been together for nearly 3 years and we always play this when we’re feeling a bit competitive. I used to be absolutely horrible at the game but over the years he taught me how to properly play and now I can sorta hold my ground against him in a fight. This game is almost nostalgic to me in a way because it helps me look back on the early part of our relationship where we played this all the time. Now with our busy schedules, we play it once in a blue moon. This game is always a fun experience to play with him because I can see how much I’ve improved overtime even if he always wins. I loved that I got to do a performance with him in it since he is such a big part of my life. I’m glad that I got this experience with him.
For reference in the video, I’m playing as Kirby and he is playing as Mewtwo
Strong language warning
This was so fun to watch!! My boyfriend and I went through a smash obsession a few years ago and watching this brought me back to that time. 😊
Project 4 Participation
I can wear makeup out in public with less concern what others think. I can put on a ridiculous amount of eyeliner and eyeshadow, but still feel somewhat confident. Feeling insecure in public happens, but it’s at home when I feel the worst. Something about my family seeing me with my face full of makeup that creates this strong sense of guilt and embarrassment. I displayed this in the last project, but wanted to take it a step further in this one, and face this fear. I had my mother in the room as I applied lipstick. As I did this I talked about this guilt and embarrassment I feel. I began shivering and I struggled to say my words. I knew I was scared, but the feeling was a lot more intense than I imagined.
I then asked her to simply respond to what I did. She questioned why I apply makeup on me, and if there’s a message I was trying to send with it. The only thing I responded was that it just brought me joy. Although the conversation turned into a little religious lecture, it did end on a positive note. She basically stated that I should do what makes me feel comfortable in my appearance. I’m unsure how to feel after this project.
Apologies for not recording this instead of just having a single picture. I felt it would of altered our reactions, and it’s a bit too personal for me.
I really admire how you are so vulnerable within your work and use it as a means to explore yourself and your relationships. I think that this experience could make a great animation, comic strip or photo series. I know many folks who have had this sort of interaction with family members and I think that documenting this experience has the power to really resonate.
Project 4
For this project I was having quite a hard time finding something to do and decided to take the route of having participants through technology. I did a series of poll stories on my Instagram that allowed my followers to dictate and create my look. From wig to outfit to makeup style I let other people make those choices for me and it was a fun way to have participants without physically being around others! I was hoping to do something a bit more extravagant but this idea fit best with my timing and availability and I am pleased with the outcome. After taking in the choices made by my peers I just made a short video on TikTok to have some kind of physical receipt that I followed the choices that were made for me!
I loved this idea and the outcome of this project! I was so glad I got to participate, I voted for the green dress but honestly I’m so glad I was out voted because the beige dress with the drag make up is a whole look. This was a very outside of the box idea for participation and it totally paid off!
Project 4 - Participation
When I was a kid my mom taught me how to fold origami cranes that she calls swooses - I have no idea where she got that from, apparently it is the word for a goose/swan hybrid. Regardless, I remember I was so excited when she pinched the paper bird’s chest and pulled on it’s tail, causing the wings to flap. It wasn’t long after that I was mass producing these swooses at an alarming rate so that I could ensure each of my elementary school classmates could share in the joy they brought me. It didn’t really occur to me until recently that my practice in ceramics has reconnected me with that part of my inner child. I find it so very exciting to be able to create objects that bring others as much joy as they bring to me. I feel so incredibly lucky and grateful that I this is what I am able to do with my life.
For this project I knew I wanted to find a way that I could allow others to channel their creativity into something that was interactive. When I was first brainstorming for ideas, I thought about one of my favorite works of all time - Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room. She created truly such an ingenious way of allowing the work to evolve through the creative participation of those who were lucky enough to walk through the installation. I wondered about how something similar could be accomplished in the art building, but felt that there was no way I could accomplish a similar visual effect given the reduced amount of students with in person classes this semester. My friend Serei suggested that I should try to find a way to minimize the space that participants could interact with if there weren’t very many of them. So I settled on interactive canvases. In the hallway of the art building I hung three canvases and provided participants with a plethora of the most exciting/nostalgic children’s art supplies that I could afford. Although I attempted to steer the theme in the direction of “unleash your inner child on these canvases”, I really just wanted to see how people would interact with the canvases in general. Honestly, I don’t think I could have asked for a better result. People were vulnerable, supportive, whimsical, and creative with their participation. It truly has brought me so much joy, and I hope that it has at least brought a little to the participants.
I will be leaving them up in the hallway for as long as I possibly can so if any of y’all walk by in the hallway, please feel free to interact how you please! Thank you so so much to everyone who has participated.
This was such a great idea! I saw this on campus and was in a rush so I wasn’t able to participate, but I was fascinated by it and wondered who created it & I was so excited to learn that it was from our class! I think this was so fun, and think this could be a really cool installation in a gallery setting. I’d definitely build upon or continue this work going forward!
Project 3- Sit’s specific locations
artists statement- For this piece I chose to do it at my parents ranch in Wyoming. We have dual lives between here and Colorado since I was in third grade. This ranch holds so many special memories for me and my family. Something my mom and I do it walk around and look for trash to pick up, or cook things to find that have been left behind from people who lived here before us. Long before we owned this land, there was a barn in the exact spot were standing in the video. The barn itself burned down, so there is lots of debris, nails and little treasures here. This video shows my mom and I walking around and picking up what we find. This is something that will always be special to us and the history of this ranch is so rich and beautiful. Also another thing to mention is that today is earth day and even by walking around and picking up trash that isn’t meant to be there you are doing something good! In the end I show you all the little things we collected in just those few minutes.
This was so cool & a great way to honor earth day. I find spaces like this so interesting, and through watching this video I feel like I’m there, and have the same urge you do to pick up trash, and observe the history. I like how you referred to the remnants of the burned down barn as little treasures, because I view it the same way.
