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Project 4: Performance

“Play Through the Chaos”

For this assignment I wanted to utilize music, as playing and performing music used to be pretty integral parts of my life. I didn’t want to just sit down and play a song, though, I wanted to communicate a feeling that otherwise I don’t talk about very often. Music, above all else, was my only coping mechanism for the life I was raised in and for the overwhelming feelings of anxiety that I felt as a young teen.

In this video, I’m trying to recall some of the chords to one of my favorite songs to play, “Even if it’s a Lie” by Matt Maltese, although rather unsuccessfully because of the chaotic noise in the background distracting me as well as my lack of practice with it. The papers surrounding me are some of the many songs I’ve written in my lifetime. The noise in the background may be the chaotic events outside of the moment, maybe they’re my internal feelings of unrest, but regardless I keep pushing through to get to the song. I no longer play much because a lot of the feelings I was trying to cope with no longer plague my life, and I was never interesting in becoming a big performer anyway. Regardless, it holds its place in my heart and I’ll pick it up from time to time in order to relive the peace that it brought me.

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Reading Response: “The Other History of Intercultural Performance”

This article exhibits a very dark side to performance that has taken place in the past, particularly that of colonizing countries taking indigenous people and putting them on display for the entertainment of others and to assert their superiority to the “Other”. The timeline they provided of this very phenomenon was striking, to say the least, in its length and in its closeness to our present-day.

What struck me the most was the treatment they faced during their performance, and how it very much aligned with what we may have expected of these types of exhibitions in the past, even during their performance in Argentina. The things they were put through during the course of their art, down to the copywrite battle over their own documentary, is a bleak and upsetting reality of performance art.

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Reading Response: “Performance: A Hidden History”

In my mind, performance art is very straightforward as someone who spent a large chunk of my life working in theater. However, Roselee Goldenberg’s “Performance: A Hidden History” has made it clear to me that this is not the case, and that performance art has a very complicated, unknown history and can be done in a range of ways, many of which I had never considered.

This analysis of performance art across history has only deepened my respect for it as a medium, seeing as how at it’s core it is anti-establishment and anti-commercialism, which is something I appreciate about postmodern art. Any artistic medium that baffles art critics and museums is a good art medium to me (not to diss other traditional forms of art, I’m no critic). I think the use of performance art to make statements especially in times of great social or political strain is an excellent strategy to make your point heard, and I think the mystification of its uses historically only makes it that much more interesting and ephemeral as an art form.

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Project 3: One Minute Supercut- Nurtured Nature

In considering what I wanted to do for this project, I seemed to be super drawn to adding the imagery of flowers into this in some way. I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to depict them or what message I wanted to send so I did some research on some key words, flowers, life, nature. After doing this my ideas expanded, and I remembered a song that is dear to my heart for many reasons that I wanted to depict in this project as well. This song from Porter Robinson named Lifespan shares an instrumental of the waves of life in excitement and somber. This beautiful soundtrack makes a perfect background for the floral display of this project. Displaying the life and beauty of flowers and their birth was the goal. So, the final product of this piece shares a compilation of flowers growth and existence focusing on the beauty of each specific flower. The name of this project is derived partly from the song as it is in an album called Nurture by Porter Robinson, additionally the “nature” part being self-explanatory pointing toward flowers.

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https://youtu.be/m2cKA4zIY8g

Trigger warnings: suffocation, stalking, enclosed spaces, wildfires, snakes, and spiders

I decided to look up the top ten fears people have, as well as base some of these clips off of my own fears and my friends fears. At first I was originally planning to have creepy music with it or some white noise, but after watching the video with the original clips sounds I preferred it without the music. Having sound at the beginning and then kind of abruptly going silent made it more jarring, especially when it came to the clips where you’d expect sound. I also liked the title at the end, because again it was more surreal and jarring that way. I definitely don’t recommend watching if you have some of these fears, I’m not trying to cause anxiety or panic attacks or anything, just wanted to provide a goosebump kind of feeling. I’ve always been fascinated with what goes bump in the night and fear and I have a very peculiar relationship; I definitely think people don’t realize that adrenaline junkies like me can still have fears too.

Credit to the original videos creators (not in any particular order):

Fear of Snakes: https://www.pexels.com/video/snake-crawling-on-a-ceramic-head-bust-8458572/

Fear of spiders: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-spider-building-a-web-5645597/

Fear of disease/sickness: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-young-cancer-patient-in-the-hospital-6011520/

Claustrophobia: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-trapped-inside-a-cardboard-box-8458598/

Fear of suffocation: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-covered-with-plastic-6894132/

Fear of being stalked/followed: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-walking-in-the-dark-5582584/

Driving phobia: https://www.pexels.com/video/roadtrip-at-night-856148/

Fear of fire: https://www.pexels.com/video/wildfire-on-the-mountain-7543653/

Fear of isolation/plane crash: https://www.pexels.com/video/birds-eye-view-of-crashing-waves-on-the-rock-8438341/

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Sequence And Catastrophe

Project 3 Video Art

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Fiona's Breakdowns (Shameless)

4D 1 Minute Supercut ProjectWorks Cited:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJipbGT8zUkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjjqpVmCLtQ

Project 3: 1 Minute Supercut “Fiona’s Breakdowns”

When it comes to things like television and movies I hardly find myself getting wrapped up in the emotions being portrayed by the characters. I may feel stress because of unresolved conflicts or the excitement of being on the edge of my seat at the climax of a storyline, but truly feeling the struggle and desperation of a character is not a feeling I’m familiar with.

When it comes to Shameless, however, the feelings and scenarios portrayed by Fiona Gallagher are all too real to me, and is one of the few characters that I cry with. Her struggle to keep everything together while she’s actively falling apart is a feeling that cuts deep for me and for many others, so for this project I wanted to display just some of the moments I really resonated with her in this way. Her strength and perseverance despite all the odds stacked against her (for those unfamiliar, raising all 5 of her siblings because of her absent, mentally ill, and addicted parents) are traits that inspire me, even if the story is fictional.

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Bill Viola “Ascension”

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Nam June Paik “Electronic Super Highway”

Nam June Paik is considered the founder of video art. This installation was used to predict the future of telecommunications.

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Bruce Nauman “Bouncing in the Corner, No. 1” (1968)

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Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

“Matthew Barney’s epic Cremaster cycle (1994–2002) is a self-enclosed aesthetic system consisting of five feature-length films that explore processes of creation. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically, but also through the photographs, drawings, sculptures, and installations the artist produces in conjunction with each episode.” (Nancy Spector, Guggenheim)

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Relation in Time. Marina Abramović and Ulay

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Projection: Vanishing and Becoming

It had not occurred to me that the act of projection has been so contentious throughout human history. Sean Cubitt recalls two different stories about the origin of art, one Western tale that emphasizes line and negative space in the form of a silhouette and a Buddhist tale that emphasizes the figure as a whole but in reflection only, not the direct figure. Both of these tales, he argues are about the origins of painting and drawing despite the fact that both of these tales rely on the projection of light.

Projection is a theme that pops up in a variety of realms of human thought and in occurrences throughout human history, such as the projection of a hand onto a cave wall, backlash against the projection of the divine into images, or the psychoanalysis thought of someone “projecting” their problems or insecurities onto others. He asserts that per current perceptions to view a projection is to view mortality, as the recorded content has been entirely removed from the subject, or its real-life sensations. 

It seems to me that projection is an intrinsically human medium, and that Cubitt is desperate for artists to begin diving into and redeveloping this medium under a less mortality-centered perspective but rather under a perspective of natality, or becoming. In this way, projection is a method of people and objects to project their existence through time and space.

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Time and Motion Response

I understood that in certain cases artists would attempt to display an action as it’s occurring to simulate movement and time despite the work actually being a still image. What had not occurred to me was the level of detail this requires, and how many ways there are to imply time and motion in a stationary setting. 

Other than the more obvious forms of actual time in things like video, the use of actual time in things like Andy Goldsworthy’s environmental sculptures that degrade or disappear over time, or in performance art like the violinist on an ice block are especially unique ways of using time in art.

Implied and recorded time are also dear to my heart, as implied time is the kind of time I see in stationary art most often and recorded time I’ve always seen as intriguing, given as you see chronological events but not the events that lead there, despite this you understand that there has been a passage of time.

The use of implied motion in addition to implied time seems like a natural yet difficult process to follow, as you have to display both of these things so that they are perceived as working in conjunction with each other, rather than being two completely separate processes. 

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Art Project 2: The Loop

Artist Statement:

For this project, I messed around with a night and day concept that turned into more of a before and after. Messing with repetition of the same photos then changing only the indirect temperature of the colors caused this strobe light effect on the .gifs. The nature images ended up taking over most of my .gif collection of ten rather than continuing on with trippy bedrooms or sunset .gifs I found the nature images to be more appealing. In the end, I enjoyed messing with different colors to achieve an interesting outcome.