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I was scared to open my mouth. I was scared I would start yelling, and if I started yelling she would be scared of me and if she was scared of me, she would be right about - Mira Jacob

I really related to this quote from "Good Talk". Although I do not have the exact same experiences, as a queer person I have heard too many times, "I don't think someone would really do that" or "You're overreacting" when I try to bring up concerns surrounding the queer community. People seem to have trouble listening to my experiences and I get frustrated and angry, but I know that if I start yelling it'll just shut down the conversation. I'm left feeling like I'm going crazy, so oftentimes I turn to art to calm myself and clear my head. I hope if I can express my feelings well enough through art, maybe people will better understand and be able to have empathy, or at least offer comfort to those in similar situations, like Mira Jacob did for me.

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What makes performance art, art and not just doing something? Going into this project, that was the question I was struggling with. After looking into some recommended performance artists, I was inspired to do something in the kitchen. I wanted to turn the audience into the cake I was frosting. Me simply frosting a cake is not necessarily performance art, but making it more interactive I think makes it feel more like a performance. Now you're a cake!

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Both readings revealed to me the immense history associated with performance art. I thought performance art was a more recent form of art, but it has been going on for decades. "The Other History of Intercultural Performance" by Coco Fusco was very enlightening for me. It showed performance art as something more than just artists doing weird things. They were making commentary on how white people sensationalize and capitalize off of other cultures. People were so willing to believe that they were from an undiscovered culture. It was crazy to me how nobody thought twice about these people being put into a cage and treated like zoo animals. I didn't realize that performance art could have such a deep meaning, even when the performance art itself seems lighthearted or silly.

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This is dark. But the world is already plenty absurd on its own, so I didn’t have to add any of that. 🌀

The iPad was created in 2010. Does anyone else find a weird correlation between a decade of constant mobile connection and the glitchy entropic happenings of 2020?

We are drowning in s3mant1c n0iz3.

Nothing means anything more, it’s all virtue signaling for clout and ego.

All talk no action.

The internet has confused our brains and is actively scrambling the minds of our youth.

To remain ignorant to this problem is to enable to problem.

We are not looking out for our most vulnerable populations-THE CHILDREN.

Women are responsible to the safety of women and children.

The world is run by pedophilic men.

The internet is their portal to your children.

Wake the fuck up.

The bourgeoisie drink the blood of the young.

✨🖤Happy Samhain🖤✨

thebetterbear

I call this one: Eye of the Tiger: The Ultimate Movement Version.

Artist Statement: For this one, I didn't really have anything in mind but I found some youtube clips that I thought were funny so I decided to make a compilation of those. For my technical exercise, I unintendedly had the music beats match up to the film and wanted to do the same here, just more technical. I thought of Eye of the Tiger by Survivors as the beats are really strong. All of the clips I chose were of absurdness and irony. This is different to how the song was originally meant for- it was made for the movie Karate Kid and many youtube compilations of the movie Rocky. Both movies are of toughening up, boxing or fighting so I thought it would be a good idea to have if about something other than those themes.

oliviamonte

Your video is so funny and well edited! I like how you put a combination of actual sport events and movie scenes, it raises the time old question does art imitate life or life imitate art. I can't imagine how much time it took to get the beats to line up, so kudos to you for taking that challenge on!

"Deep Quotes from Unlikely Sources"

There are so many things that we say and do in our day to day lives that come from the influence of others. I wanted to explore how media can shape a person, especially the younger audience. These clips are all from media that are intended for kids or teens. What kind of messages are these media conveying? What do younger audiences learn from the products they consume? My project allowed me to look into it, and find life lessons in odd places. I wouldn't have thought that a YouTube video would offer think pieces in-between jokes or that a video game would teach a lesson about intelligence. All of these things and more influence us every day, and we don't even realize where they came from.

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