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Project 4 Artist Statement

It becomes more apparent to me every day that people take themselves seriously. This may seem common knowledge, but in most aspects, I am a grade A dumb ass. My main hobby in life is making a fool of myself. I have to make art to stay sane, but art also contributed to my insanity and humor is how I cope. In this project, I wanted to post something that had zero significant meaning, zero substance, and basically pure stupidity that does not make a scene. This is what I do as a constant during idle time when I enjoy life most. When making art, especially for school It becomes all I can think about, usually, I can't relax or rest until the work is completed. The second half of this semester became very rough to finish for me because of personal and family occurrences, so I decided creating a performance on the side of stupidity would be best suited to my needs. tomfoolery is what I do, here are some snippets of that.

Project 4 Reading Responds

“Performance: A Hidden History” spoke about performance art throughout recent history and its position and its influence on culture as well as on the art world. What I primarily took away from this reading was the role performance art plays when the restrictions of culture, the art world, and traditional art forms/mediums, are becoming restrictive. Performance art in many capacities can dismantle the restrictions and limitations that are created by the present culture, political state, art critics, and how art is valued or perceived at a given time. “The artists turned to variety theatre as a model for their performances, because it destroyed "the Solemn, the Sacred, the Serious and the sublime in Art with a capital A."” The ‘futurists’ and other performance artists obtained recognition and awareness threw “an attack on the public’s notion of life and art.” With their disparagement, they expanded their views, styles, and new outlooks on art all over the map. Roslee also speaks of the difficulty that performance art posed for both artists and critics in creating as well as in categorizing and evaluating. This I feel is a given as performance art is often presented to question, break, or re-establish the confinements of art practices in both a creative, cultural, and political.

Different from “Performance: A Hidden History” where performance art is spoken about more generally with examples of the changes that were brought upon the art world in a way to express performance art potential. In "The Other History of Intercultural Performance" Coco Fusco goes into detail about her practice of collaborative performance art which included significantly cultural experimentation. She expresses in depth the cultural and historical significance that was represented and permanently upheld in their work; The audience some surprising views, interpretations, and reactions to the work. Coco went into much greater depth about the process, approach, and execution of Performance art, and what the results of each process had on the piece and its results. For example “ As we assumed the stereotypical role of the domesticated savage, many audience members felt entitled to assume the role of the colonizer, only to find themselves uncomfortable with the implications of the game.” and “The central position of the white spectator, the objective of these events as a confirmation of their position as global consumers of exotic cultures, and the stress on authenticity as an aesthetic value, and remain fundamental to the spectacle of Otherness many

continue to enjoy.”

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Project 3: The Supercut

https://youtu.be/erOwipg6-IU

For my supercut I wanted to observe time and how it relates to sanity. The White Rabbit , in this case, is in a constant rush against the clock. Nothing good comes from losing sight of the journey. Hard focus on destination or getting from point A to point B, causes the Rabbit to lose sight of what's going on around him. He pulls friends into bad situations. He follows people he shouldn’t and doesn't pay attention to others who have good intentions. If someone tells you something, listen. Don’t rush through the story. Choose who you put energy into wisely. Just maybe when we begin to think of deadlines as target points we can both keep our head and find stability. Maybe he should, that will make his life easier. The White Rabbit is so concerned about the Queen taking their head that they lose something more important, sanity. So by the time he ends up at his destination...it’s completely irrelevant. The thing is, when you have no patience for time, it's hard to find it and you lose sight of a bunch of other things.

works cited: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1951)

Alice Meets the Rabbit: https://youtu.be/jHG2bMe9YxY

The White Rabbit’s Home: https://youtu.be/QAvPQaVoqGA

The Mad Hatter Destroys The Pocket Watch: https://youtu.be/N-lWbtYqZF4

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So, I really dislike just how much I saw myself in the White Rabbit. You portrayed his madness well, especially his increasingly erratic behavior! Made me really sit and think about my own issue with time. As I get older, the more hyperaware I become. Time is dwindling and I am seeing that I focus on this a bit too much. Thanks for providing a quality therapy session in just over a minute 🤣

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Bicycle Race.

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Mash up: As Above (2022)

This video is intended to serve as a modern vanitas painting, or momento mori, reminding viewers that even abundance turns to rot. Video clips were sourced on YouTube and paced to a section of Andy Stott's album Luxury Problems, adding an additional layer of interpretation to the imagery shown. We may revel in life, we may take its simple gifts for granted, but as sure as the clouds shift and the river runs to sea, all things will change and fade away.

works cited: https://youtu.be/DWrtHaKMlRw https://youtu.be/BAnEBxoExT8 https://youtu.be/EwTCdcs8gGg https://youtu.be/Xz4SYkwSxTM https://youtu.be/loB0kmz_0MM https://youtu.be/zm9Gh8Fpy0c

Sequence and Catastrophe: artist statement

In this video art ‘short movie’ I wanted to depict an unclear story to the viewer. The use of both representational objects and hazy sounds was meant to create a kind of confusing incarnation connecting time, fear, beauty, and death. It was more intriguing to make a video without a clear story or meaning but instead to create something everyone could perceive differently. A story that was not a story but something one could create a narrative around based on their own experiences and connotations. To gather material for this video I used clips from one of my favorite movies, Harold And Maude, created text imagery, and filmed clips in the basement where I dwell. Sounds were collected from scratched/distorted records and household items such as an old restaurant bell.

Sequence And Catastrophe

Project 3 Video Art

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Technical Exercise 3

Small "music video" clip

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Boss Witch

Music Video Mashup

ft. Boss Bitch by Doja Cat (slowed) & Hocus Pocus

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social norms and systems were made to be bent and broken. "K-12" defies the expectations set on "Crybaby" in her life that follow her from youth to adulthood. These visuals give me power when I think of the fact that we have control over our own lives and how we are treated and how we react. Even when life feels hopeless, lonely, and out of control, there is always an option especially with a friend. This film is powerful and these alarming moments of her and her friends owning their power gives me hope and comfort in my own individuality.

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I remember watching this video a few years ago but don't remember how beautiful the cinematography of the video was. You did a really great job selecting the moments for these gifs, there are rhythmic and beautifully timed. They are also interesting in the way they all share the same color scheme, I think it would be interesting to see these all together on a larger scale, maybe projected onto large walls.

The Triplets of Belleville, 2003, Animated Film Written and Directed By: Sylvain Chomet.

One of my favorite movies ever that not enough people know about.

Das Wunder, Walther Ruttmann, 1922, Animated advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre,

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Clark Richert , The Ultimate Painting, 1966, A collaborative work between Clark Richert, Richard Kallweit, JoAnn Bernofsky, Gene Bernofsky and Charles DiJulio, The Ultimate Painting was made to spin during multi-media shows in Drop City's Theater Dome. Organized according to a five-pointed geodesic framework, the painting reveals different patterns under various frequencies of a strobe light.

My apologies but I was unable to find a video of this work in motion, and the description of the work does not do it justice.

Drummer Gene Krupa performing at Gjon Mili's studio. NYC, 1941

George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, oil on canvas, 1909

Reading Response #3

In Sean Cubitt’s Projection. Vanishing and Becoming, Sean reviews and goes into historical narratives on the origin of painting, or more stories from the past that try to contextualize the beginning of human visual documentation. Sean expresses how visual art was formed through history of humans' projected reality, and how all art is documentation of that projection. The different stories change in narrative through being affected by the atmosphere, ‘culture’, contemplations, and considerations (or perception) of the documenter. Sean commented on one of the stories I recognized about The Buddha getting his portrait painted, “The world we see is but a reflection of a reality that escapes its reflections:” It is a complex idea put simply, and is a statement that seemed to me to be restated throughout the reading. My take away from this statement whether correct or not is that we see a reflection of what is reality. Our view of what is real is changed and obscured threw our disposition and nature, making that reality a reflection that each person sees differently. What is seen is only a fragment of that reality, it is what each set of eyes perceives in a moment to be the defining parts that build up that ‘moment’. Another topic that was addressed during the beginning of the reading was about one thing that all stories of early visual documentation shared. That the recording of these ‘moments’ was to attempt their preservation, to capture a moment that would soon pass, and to be able to revisit it. Sean put it this way, “to secure some record of presence that would fill in for the real absence of the deceased”. While these may not be what I was meant to see as the main takeaway of this reading, these are the topics I found most riveting.

Chapter 6: Time and Motion from Making art Form and Meaning, by Terry Barrett is a chapter I have read over a few times now throughout my first year of college. Though this time my perspective was changed. Film making, cinematography, and videography are themes of artistic expression that occupy my mind often that I have wanted to explore most my life, though I have rarely given myself a chance to. When reading this chapter again, going threw all the varying terms and elements that have a role in time and motion in art, the broad concepts seemed to register. Terry Berrett does a wonderful job simply putting and differentiating how elements of time and motion can be communicated and expressed across mediums through artistic expression. She addresses and breaks-down time and motion, what they are, their variations, and how they are presented and used through art, in painting, photography, sculpture, video, and land work. Implied Motion was my favorite of the concepts that were addressed, Probably because of the work by Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase No.2, 1912. This work has always amazed me and I love the way Terry discusses and identifies the work and its implied motion.