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Project #4: One Minute Live Performance

I know this is well past one minute but it didn’t feel complete when I cut it shorter. Marina Abramovic’s documentary was mind blowing and stretched my previously conceived notions of what art is and can be. Although she is most known for her radical displays, I was more influenced by her subtle performances like when she sat in a chair and gave blank stares to strangers. I hope I was able to adequately show the inspiration I gathered from her work.

The background music is a song I made a year or so ago called “Black Ice” and the footage is a blend of shots that I took myself using a tripod and phone as well as clips from Earl Sweatshirt’s “Grief” video. I would have recreated similar scenes to Earl’s with me as the subject but I think once you see the clips I borrowed it will be understandable how recreating these sentiments would have required an extensively larger amount of resources than I have access to.

If you like the music, please check my other stuff out as well:

http://www.soundcloud.com/watchdecolo

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Daaaamn, I feel a little bad about mine now haha. This is seriously really amazing though, the production value hooked me and the artistic expression of these raw feelings strengthened the captivation.

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To Drink

For my one minute performance video, I decided to keep it really simple. For one minute, I decided to drink a single glass of water. I wanted it to feel like I could’ve drank this single glass of water for a half an hour—if I really wanted to. I tried to emphasize each and every movement and step to drinking the glass of water. The idea was to not be anywhere else or thinking of anything else but drinking and feeling the water. I picked up the glass, held it, brought it to and felt it on my lips. Mine was very simple, and now seeing a few other classmates’ videos, maybe I kept it a bit too simple?

I apologize for seeming a bit awkward in the video, being in front of the camera makes me a tad uncomfortable.

Regardless of that, I’ve been loving seeing everyone’s performances and am excited to see what else everyone came up with!

Artist Statement

I call my piece “Shut Up and Look,” because all too often, we are too busy talking to pay attention, to look around at the world around us. Unfortunately, I ran into problems. My tripod didn’t want to work, and my cameraman did not realize I needed a full minute. I had planned to stare at the camera silently for the remainder of my minute. This was a real challenge for me, because I feel uncomfortable on camera in such a way. I wanted to smile and say cheese, I wanted to have on makeup and look nice, but that was not the point of my performance art piece.

“Silence” My camera man stopped the recording a bit short of the one minute. I’d planned to stare at you after the writing on the face.

Verbs

I know you’re loving my stick figures! Hahaha!

The Artist is Present

I love, love, LOVE Marina Abramovic! I recall seeing (on screen) her piece where she sat at stared at the crowd at the table, and I remember it bringing tears to my eyes. I love the movie because it doesn’t just get personal about her art, but about her. She’s put her body at risk for her art, and I really respect that. I fully admire the “grandmother of performance art.”

Reading Response:Roselee Goldberg

I found the Roseee Goldberg piece to be extremely interesting. I especially was surprised to know that there is no “ready category in which to place performance” and that the other art forms have a stronghold. I recall a performance art piece having to do with honey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and some performance pieces at the Clyfford Still Museum, but oddly found nothing at the Denver Art Museum. I had no idea there was a manifesto written by Tommaso Marinetti, who showed great passion for his art, scandal and all. I can see, however, how performance would remain a challenge to art critics and the public, since it “questions the basic criteria by which art is evaluated.”

I’ll be honest: I’m not looking forward to the performance art assignment. Thinking about it fills me with anxiety.

The Vanishing and Reappearing Ball

I didn’t put music to this one, partly because I wanted you to hear the sounds of the balls as they went down the lanes and hit (or not) the pins. The other reason is that I knew everyone would probably put music to their video, and I wanted to be different. So...enjoy the sight and sound of bowling and the vanishing (and reappearing) ball!

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stardust...

Chapter Six and Cubbitt

Cubitt’s piece was an interesting, albeit difficult read for me. I was drawn to the story of the Corinth maiden, and the story of capturing the Buddha through his reflection in the pool spoke to me as well. Aside from that, it wasn’t an easy piece for me to get through, as hard as I tried.

In the chapter, I agree with a classmate who said she thinks she’ll have a better idea of exercise 1. I also tend to think that things need to be in a chronological order, and knowing that that isn’t necessary sort of rocks my world. I think that I’ll have more success as I keep in mind that time doesn’t have to be linear and that I have more power to be creative without thinking obsessively about keeping things in chronological order.

Project #2: The Loop I focused on my two favorite bands, Twenty One Pilots and Imagine Dragons, because I really love their imaginations and creativity with their videos. Sometimes they are a little tamer, and sometimes disturbing, but always their imaginations come through, not only in their music but their videos. I have often found solace and encouragement in their music, and I’ve often found myself listening to their songs on repeat. Being bipolar, the encouragement they offer through their art is something I really need in my life. I have tried to capture the more creative bits, and I hope you enjoy them.

Exercise 2 I love Twenty One Pilots, so here’s Tyler Joseph with his yuke!

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Artist Project#1

The idea behind this comes from my personal tendency (that I know I share with many people) to get lost in thought and fantasy often times rather than focusing on what I actually have. I think a lot of people can relate in finding it easy to forget what we have around us. I symbolized this by using settings of places I really want to visit in my life but filling my position in them with neo-tokyo images which I find to be aesthetically pleasing fantasy images but are things I don’t actually get to see in my world. The little windows into other worlds are so obviously separate from these realities and the real beauty of these settings. At the same time, it’s important to hold on to imagination so the stark contrast emphasizes these figures as points of focus.

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I really like the use of the two opposing scenery here to really obstruct from one another, especially since the image shown through the person is from one place, where-as the locations he’s visiting is all around the world. It’s very creative and a great way to show off daydreaming and movement.

I want to use this so much more than I actually do.

When I’m verklempt this comes in handy.

There is no side eye like her side eye.

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