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Petunia the Duct Tape Imaginary Friend

For my art assignment I decided to create an imaginary friend like JooYoung Choi. When I was a kid my friend and I would make these dolls out of duct tape and I immediately thought of this when I saw JooYoung’s assignment. Meet Petunia:

Petunia is made mostly from duct tape with her insides stuffed with pillow stuffing and her arms, legs, and mouth with cardboard. I used some craft supplies to make her features and skirt and super glued everything that wasn’t duct taped. Some of this stuff I had laying around and some of it I went to the store to buy. I bought two rolls of duct tape but only used half of one. With the leftover materials I plan to take them over to my 10 year old cousins house to see if she would like to make her own duct tape imaginary friend.

I made her like a puppet just like JooYoung made her friends in hopes of animating her in some way. I put this clamp on the back where the hand holes are because otherwise her head just falls back. I wasn’t very confident in my puppeteer skills so I ended up taking her to my work so she could have tea with a friend. My friend Kelsey enjoyed having a tea party and imagining if Petunia could talk, what her personality might be like.

Overall the process was pretty fun and nostalgic. It was interesting to go to the store during this time and having to wear a mask. That was the only thing that was unusual about this process considering the Covid-19 pandemic. I ended up straining my left wrist from all the pulling of the duct tape.

I think JooYoung’s art is really fun and intriguing. I enjoyed learning about The Cosmic Womb and seeing how JooYoung brings her friends to life and interacts with them. I love that the mention of Henry Darger and his world he created for The Vivian Girls comes up in the art assignment video. I discovered him a while ago and was fascinated by his work and story. I think it’s really amazing how vivid people’s imagination can be and I think we could all benefit from opening that up more so and allowing our minds to find new realms within our imaginations such as how JooYoung and Henry Darger have.

#theartassignment #4D #JooYoung Choi #original

Over-consumption. I’ve realized that one of the ways I like to feed my addiction to dopamine is through over-consumption, most dangerously by drinking a lot of alcohol. I don’t think that drinking alcohol is all bad, and I’m not ready to swear it off completely, if ever, but for as long as I have been consuming alcoholic beverages, I’ve struggled with drinking too much and living with the repercussions. I thought it would be interesting to drink “ALCOHOL” but represent the beverage as some sort of sludge-muck. While drinking alcohol can be fun and exciting, there is the possibility that what I thought was going to happen turns out to be far from fun and exciting.

#4D #performance #original

To Grind

To Tamp

To Pour

To Smile

To Open

To Work

To Serve

To Look

To Walk

To Help

To Eat

To Drink

To Create

To Bike

To Laugh

To Procrastinate

To Juggle

To Wash

To Brush

To Feel

Performance: A Hidden History, Roselee Goldberg

It’s interesting to me how performance art has so many facets within, and that it can be hard to define in little words. As well as definition, performance art faces difficulties with exposure and with record of its history. Roselee Goldberg’s essay on performance art suggests that performance has been a way for artists to break boundaries within the art world, as well as a means for artists to engage a wider audience. I like thinking about art movements such as the Futurist, Dadaist, or Surrealist and how the foundation of these art groups started, or most likely started with performance art. Goldberg writes “…when the members of such groups were still in their twenties or early thirties, it was in performance that they tested their ideas, only later expressing them in objects”. How exciting it must have been to be alive at the time and in the right place to experience these happenings. It’s fun to imagine being exposed to Surreal arts through community gatherings or picking up the newspaper and reading the manifestos that were aimed at challenging art culture. I enjoy Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s ‘Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism’ and his comparison of museums to graveyards. I think that is a bit harsh but, as the story goes, was necessary for inciting change within the art world at the time; a theme that still persists today.

#4D #Roselee Goldberg #reading response 3

Are you in or are you out? A question that myself and many different voices were asking in a dream that I had. My idea for this video project basically stemmed from that dream. I was also inspired by the perfomance/video art work Fashionably Late for the Relationship, performed by Lian Amaris Sifuentes and filmed by R. Luke DuBois. In this work, Sifuentes is set up in a bedroom scene in the middle of New York City. She then acts as a woman preparing for a date. DuBois recorded this for 72 hours. In actual time, Sifuentes is moving as if she is in slow motion. After the performance, DuBois compressed the footage to make a 72 minute work of video art. What can be seen is Sifuentes seemingly moving at a normal pace while the world around her is sped up, creating an illusion of blurred images. I wanted to try this method of recording and editing.

I really like the outcome of my video project, although it isn’t exactly what I had in mind. I am realizing more that most of my art projects are inspired by my dreams and as well, they don’t come out quite as I imagined. I don’t think this is a bad thing, and I suppose it’s difficult to accurately portray or even understand one’s own dreams. I added the song Symphonia IX (my wait is u) by Grimes to facilitate the feeling I hoped viewers would perceive from my video. This project was challenging yet extremely rewarding. I never thought to make art through film/video and I hope to be inspired to make more video projects in the future.

#4D #Project 2 #video art #original

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I love this Key and Peele skit and wanted to make it into a music video for Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar

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Barbarella in the Excessive Machine: A Space Age Love Story

Finding herself trapped in the Excessive Machine, Barbarella exclaims: “Oh! It’s sort of nice, isn’t it?”

#Barbarella #Space Age Love Song #Flock of Seaguls #4D #original #video art

Making Art, Form and Meaning by Terry Barrett. Ch. 6 Time and Motion

This chapter is interesting. I especially like thinking about time as a way of expressing narrative. This can be more obviously seen in movies and films with moving pictures, yet I am intrigued by the way photographers who work with still pictures like Duane Michals and Gregory Crewdson create implied time. In Michals The Creation, he simply uses a sequence of frames, even numbering them to show implied time. Crewdson creates implied time in his greatly detailed sets built to capture moments that seem to be taken from reality. Both of these artists use photography beyond just capturing real life and actual time.

I also think it’s interesting how recorded time and actual time can contrast so sharply, still artists can manipulate time so well to create illusions of or mimic time. I am fascinated by performance artist Lian Amaris Sifuentes collaboration with filmmaker R. Luke DuBois to create Fashionably Late for the Relationship. It would have been excellent to see the performance aspect of this work as it was happening in actual time, while anticipating the finished work.

I was really excited to see Robert Capa in this chapter. When I was young and thought maybe I wanted to be a photojournalist, I was inspired by Capa. It’s interesting that blurred images can be so frowned upon but the way Capa’s images are blurred add to the emotional feel of the work and imply the motion of reality.

#4D #Making Art Form and Meaning #Ch.6 #Time and Motion

Projection: Vanishing and Becoming by Sean Cubitt

Reading Cubitt’s essay initially had me thinking about my art history class. In this class we see that some of the first known pieces of art are cave drawings. As mentioned in Cubitt’s writings, moving image technologies in the form of shadows were of ancient art techniques. This has me wondering about the effects of projections on the very beginnings of ancient art. As I read on, the article began to give me a whirlwind of thoughts and feelings. At first, I thought how romantic it is to think of projection and painting in a way to remember the deceased, or to prepare for death like in Pliny’s story of the maid from Corinth. I like thinking about how art has been used as a record or a memento in the face of mortality. As well, how beautiful and inspiring it is to think of the Buddha as so radiant that he had to project his reflection into a pond so the artist sent to paint his portrait could do so. Then projection and image take on a more brutal and disturbing portrayal as Cubitt mentions the forbiddance of making images explicitly written in the Ten Commandments. Also, when described by Russian writer Maxim Gorky on his first experience with cinema in 1896, as the Kingdom of Shadows, a world without sound without color. Quite fascinating to think of projection in this way and how Cubitt connects all these writings and experiences.

Then, Cubitt writes about the possibility of projection being used like a signature that every imaginable object is putting out into the world, and how this dismisses discussion on whether certain projection technologies are accurately depicting the world or not. Now, it is not solely about the deaths, and absences of the realities and world we know, but about becoming and creating a new or future world. I like thinking about this and how projection can be used to create my own artistic signature and as a means of perceiving or depicting the world. As artists who has never made video art I think of this idea almost like an anxiety reducer and that’s exciting!

#4D #Vanishing and Becoming #Sean Cubitt