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Project #5 performance art

To me this performance art represents how society is blind to true beauty and that as long as you feel like a rock star when you look in the mirror then you are a rock star! Don’t let other people’s vision of beauty define how you feel about yourself.

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Reading Response #5

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

Bold, brutal, surreal, a real eye-opener to say the least, the Artist is Present was really interesting to watch and kind of captivating, I had to watch the whole thing in one sitting. As a person Marina Abramovic seemed sweet, passionate, clear headed and intelligent but some of her art made me question the sweet part, but never the rest. I thought she hit the nail on the head when she was talking about how others question her as an artiest, in your 20’s your alternative, in your 30’s your alternative, only in her 60’s did people consider her something more. I think that’s true in a lot of things, you can’t be taken “seriously” without the years of wisdom. Her use of performance art was insane and I say that in a good way. Although I have to say some made me cringe it was an insightful documentary.

Roselee Goldberg on performance:

I was glad to see something I could read and make sense of for this modules reading, the last reading was intense. The article was a neat look into the history of performance art. I like how the author talked about how performance comes in series of waves, coming out in times of need or social change. I think my favorite line in the article was, “Performance is the expression of artists who wish to challenge the viewers' perceptions of art and the limits of those perceptions.” You’ve got to push boundaries and manipulate the viewer’s emotions.

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Exercise #4 Music Video Remix 

I added the link just in case the video dose not work.

Music: Dropkick Murphys “The Green Fields of France” 

Video: Directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat “Saving Private Ryan”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP95SoZ3iSQ

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Reading response # three

Chapter 6 readings Time and Motion:

My major is not in the field of art so a lot of these concepts are new to me.  This class has definitely given me a new perspective and it’s been a lot of fun. That being said, when I started the chapter on time and motion I kind of thought as time as basic real-time, minutes, hours very straightforward. But the chapter shows that is definitely not that easy all. It could be the idea of time or even just a path through garden where the tempo depends on your own pace. All of the different aspects of time: tempo, duration, implied time and so on, it definitely get me a new perspective. I thought the performance piece by Laurie Anderson was creative, although I have to say if I walked down the street in New York and saw a woman wearing ice skates, trapped inside of a giant ice block, playing a violin my first thought would not be as the book explains it, “Beautiful occurrences are often ephemeral in combination with human choices in the force of nature, so notice them intentionally when they occur” (Barrett 121). My first thought would probably be, wow her feet must be really cold! If you open your mind and look at things from a different perspective you’d be surprised on what someone’s piece of art can make you feel.

 Vanishing and Becoming by Sean Cubitt:

Definitely an interesting read and beautifully written. I only wish I could follow it a little better, I know it would not disappoint. I like how it started out with two examples of how projection may have been one of the first mediums of art. It makes sense that projections of light would enable the creative side of humans to create something; I imagine a caveman and a beam of light shining through a hole into a dark cave and the caveman seeing his silhouette on the cave wall. I think one of my favorite parts of the reading was what Maxim Gorky wrote after his first time seeing the film, how he was in the kingdom of shadows and everything was dipped in gray, a soundless specter everything and everyone cursed to silence and to live without color. I paraphrase because the way he said it was so ominous and well… just awesome. 

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Exercise #3 GIF

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Exercise #3 GIF

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Reading response #3 GIF’s

and I love the movieI had never heard of a GIF before this class. I’ve seen them many times on social media and even a few commercials and ads but until this class I didn’t know what to call them. I found it interesting that there has been art shows with them and I really found it interesting that some people sell them. It was kind of odd to me that one of the articles kept referring to them as trash or garbage. I guess that’s because there are so many of them and the ones that don’t get re-blogged millions times and even those, eventually pretty much get metaphorically thrown in the trash with the other lost GIFs. I think at least 80% of GIFs are for humorous purposes but there are some that are very beautiful and mesmerizing. I think it will be a fun project at the end of this module and I’m excited to see what everybody comes up with. Here’s a couple GIFsThat I found on the web and liked.

I found this one appropriate for the assignment.

That face though! And i love this movie.

I had to add a cat GIF. I was not expecting that adorable cat face!

You can barely even tell it’s a GIF.

Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean causing a commotion because they are so awesome!

Best Disney movie behind Aladdin. 

I thought this one was pretty amazing. No scuba gear!

CRAZY!

I had to add a dancing one. You go Tina!

4th of July forever!

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I decided to go more humorous with the project instead of historical or political. I chose people running and added in basset hounds running. I think this depicts movement and does imply time. I started with my archive of the basset hounds, they are significant to me because I have a basset. They should be significant to the viewer because of their funny faces. Next, I chose a place to added them and I thought of sports or running; ended up picking people running. This gives the illusion that the bassets are chasing the people. Finally I thought I would use a treat pattern to replace the runner’s bottoms for an added texture along with being funny.

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You definitely succeeded on the humorous! This made me laugh so hard, I love the dog’s faces as there chasing after the doggie treat pants!

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Mindless Consumption

Artist Statement:

Going into this project, I considered everyday actions people perform. Through an internet search, I discovered that the average American spends over 32,000 hours of their lives eating and drinking. I wondered how many of these 32,000 hours performing the same repetitive motions (using cutlery, cooking, baking, pouring, washing, and so on), are done consciously. Furthermore, if we are not necessarily conscious when we feed ourselves, what are the implications for the surrounding environment?

I began to achieve photos related to food making, food consumption and environmental matters such as oil spills and plastic waste.

I approached the challenge of depicting movement, motion and implied time by choosing dominate photos related to food consumption. I tried to find images that imply movement and motion, such as the stirring of a bowl or the steam coming out of a cup of coffee. I approached implied time by incorporating environmental elements, (which I am stating are happening now), through cut and paste, composite and overlapping imagery. I chose a square canvas as a reference to Instagram, a common platform for posting photos of food, with super dope filters.

The name of this series is mindless consumption as I am implicating the viewer as being a probable contributor and creator of the destruction of the environment.

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Project 2

I wanted to do something about clashing the old with the new, weather it be fashion, presidents , cars, and others. Sorry I”m getting it on so late I was using real pictures and drawn pictures and then I realized I think I was just supposed to use actual photos so it took me a while plus I’m still fairly new with Photoshop and all that jazz. History has a lot of stories to tell and our stories of today will soon be history as well. Most of them are more on the comedic side like the cowboy which isn’t a realistic depiction of an old-time cowboy versus a cowboy today but I found it funny nonetheless.

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Disappearing Acts

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I think it’s even more beautiful with the images removed. 

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Exercise #2

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Very creative!

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Disappearing Act: Bugs

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Reading response “Approaches to Postmodern Art Making”

The Enlightenment was a European movement from 1687 to 1789. It was a new way of thinking, questioning the old rules and traditions for a broader view of intelligence. It was the beginning of a new era that brought with it individualism and the question of why? This era of new thinking also brought with it Inventions and scientific discoveries they questioned the church which pretty much ruled the land and it also led the way to the Industrial Revolution capitalism it was “the age of reason.” Postmodernism stems from these modernism beliefs and was influenced by the Enlightenment time in our history and it still has influence on us today. Unlike modernists, postmodernists believe that society is still far from perfect: suffering from racial, sex preference, and gender bias and that this along with property, tyranny and ignorance social justice has not yet overcome man’s own indifferences. Postmodernism art is a type of controversy to me against the different social problems that we are constantly facing. It also pushes the limit to what modernists believe is “high” and “low” art; thinking outside the box and breaking out of restraint. First termed to describe the new type of architecture “postmodernism” is not just to time it is an idea of change and progress.

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Public Poetry

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This is sequence words together really well!

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Okay! So this is my project for public art, word on the street.  I was feeling really overwhelmed with this project and I’m definitiely not a writer, so I decided to go with a light hearted sort of vibe and make it funny….so, I wrote a haiku about taking a poop and hung it up in the bathroom at MSU Denver King Center building outside of Music and Dance.  I feel like there is a lot of really heavy stuff going on in the world and after trashing four hundred ideas of really meaningful (or meaningless who knows) things to say I decided that wasn’t he direction I wanted to go.  Art is whatever you make it and my intention was just to make someone giggle at a time when it’s often hard to smile.  It’s still breaking the boundary of normality because it is out of the ordinary in a public (yet private in the sense of the bathroom stall) place.  Once again, I apologize for the poor photo quality. 

My haiku reads:

Sitting on the can…

Poopoo wil be coming soon….

Plop! There it goes now…