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Art Project 4: One Minute Performance

Mind-Numbing Crap.

My performance represents the never-ending pursuit of numbing as stress relief. Life should not be so stressful that we need these vices, even the mundane ones such as adult coloring. I have a stack of the same coloring pages, and spent about 30 minutes coloring one sheet of paper. I sped up the video to fit within the ~1 performance time limit. The time could have been used to read textbooks or clean my house, but instead I blasted music, drank coffee and didn’t give a crap. If I was performing this for an audience without a time limit, I would color the whole stack of prints and crumple each one after completing it. Productivity is a human construct that has no real meaning.

[jocelynnef]

I love how you said that “Productivity is a human construct that has no real meaning.” It encapsulates your performance really well. Especially if you would have crumbled up the piece of paper like you mentioned if you were performing for an audience. Either way it was satisfying watching you fill up the coloring page.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

This was so soothing and comfortable to watch perfectly connecting to your concept of mind numbing crap. I love it! This feels like one of those TikTok accounts like the girl that makes food with a kids play set: oddly lovely and would watch on repeat 24/7. Thank you for sharing your work with us!

[christopherdownie]

Art Project 4: One Minute Performance: Self Portrait

[jocelynnef]

This is such an interesting take on an identity performance! I like how it’s your perception of what a face should look like, yet you can’t even see it.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

This is such a clever and fun way to explore portraiture and self perception. This was such a unique way to think about a complex topic! Great job!

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Artist Statement 4

For our one-minute performance, I was a little camera shy when it came to exploring performance art in front of the lens instead of hiding behind a textbook. I thought to explore the one thing I’m always comfortable with: work. I’ve been in food service with the same company since I was 16 years old. While I appreciate the steady paycheck for the last 10 years, I also wanted to highlight the darker side of the food industry that isn’t often seen. Movies like Chef and Ratatouille showcase to an audience how lovely the food and friends are, but don’t show you the substance abuse or long shifts, (or stress balancing school and assignments).

I wish I had taken more time to pull the video to better fit a full screen since most of the video was taken on my phone on shift, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to do it in iMovie.

Thanks for viewing!

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Art Project 4: One Minute Performance (Exploring Food Service)

Featuring music from Ratatouille

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Overview of Performance Art and Readings 4

Reading 1: Roselee Goldberg "Performance: A Hidden History"

- I love that the author of this work immediately states performance art as a “reinforcement of the analysis of formal art notions”. Very often in Art History, we are shown as strict story of this is where art began, this is what was acceptable and showcased in salons, etc. etc. etc. However, performance art as a medium challenges our ideas that art is more than painting, drawing, or pottery. Art is inherently something human and we should experience it more than a visual setting such as a museum.

Reading 2: Coco Fusco "The Other History of Intercultural Performance"

- Wow what a chunk of reading. 21 pages was originally very daunting. Man was I wrong; the history and discussion of “othering” throughout really hooked me. This reading really focused on the symbolism that can be found within performance as well as the context of these performances. When doing a performance art piece, you’re not only sharing your artwork but also asking your audience questions about what they’re viewing in your work either intentionally or not. It was interesting to look at performance art outside of what we discussed in 20th/21st Century Art, and look to the metaphors and “Why's” instead.

[julia-rocha]

【ｆｏｒｅｖｅｒ　ｒａｉｎ】

[jocelynnef]

I think this is my favorite Supercut out of the bunch! I think that rain can be very therapeutic, especially the sound of rain, and I think you captured this feeling very well. The clips you chose made it feel like a first person view, as if I was actually walking in the rain in Seoul, South Korea.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

This is so soothing and feels like a lovely travel video clip (in the best possible way). I want to go dance in the rain or explore a foreign city. The tone and color choice throughout made this calm, but also dynamic and fun to watch. Great job with this project!!

[courtsartdream]

Project 3: One Minute Supercut- Nurtured Nature

In considering what I wanted to do for this project, I seemed to be super drawn to adding the imagery of flowers into this in some way. I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to depict them or what message I wanted to send so I did some research on some key words, flowers, life, nature. After doing this my ideas expanded, and I remembered a song that is dear to my heart for many reasons that I wanted to depict in this project as well. This song from Porter Robinson named Lifespan shares an instrumental of the waves of life in excitement and somber. This beautiful soundtrack makes a perfect background for the floral display of this project. Displaying the life and beauty of flowers and their birth was the goal. So, the final product of this piece shares a compilation of flowers growth and existence focusing on the beauty of each specific flower. The name of this project is derived partly from the song as it is in an album called Nurture by Porter Robinson, additionally the “nature” part being self-explanatory pointing toward flowers.

[julia-rocha]

I absolutely love this! I love the overall theme and think that flowers blooming is such a beautiful thing to watch. I really enjoyed the clips and song picking up in speed as the video progresses!

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Wow I could watch this forever, like I want it as an ongoing screensaver or something. I love your song choice and how it connects well to the overall theme you’re displaying here. Amazing job with this project!

[mahealaniart]

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

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

This is super duper well done! Between the anxiety inducing music, increased tempo, and even the erratic color changes on your text explaining your work, you’ve phenomenally shown his insanity (and made me question my own as I watched longer). Excellent job on this project!!

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Artist Statement 3

For our Supercut project, I returned to my usual anime theme. This time around I used opening clips from the most recent season of My Hero Academia combined with a timeless tune from Shrek. I’ve really loved working with anime and animation based videos for these last few projects because I feel like they’re extra dynamic. The color pallets are very bright and explosive, leading to fun ways to bend the video to fit audio.

Thanks for reading!

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Supercut: Hero

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Technical Exercise 3: Music Video

Music: “The Bones” by Maren Morris

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Reading Response 3: Vanishing & Becoming

I loved the initial connection this author made to Pliny and the origins of shadow puppets on the wall to tell stories. Humans have always loved telling stories on cave walls and around fires; this is just another medium and film an evolution of that medium. The connections Sean Cubitt made back to history kept me engaged in the text as a history major, and references to pop culture favorites like Star Wars, but the overall reading came across as a bit dated technology-wise. I got a little lost in the sauce as Sean expanded into more technical terms that went over my head, but overall this was a great resource to read more on. 

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Reading Response 3: Time & Motion

Chapter 6 of our text covered a lot of information in relation to time and motion using key terms as well as the messages these two things can convey when used in art. I gravitated towards emotion as shown in time and motion because it was an interesting concept I’ve seen, but never really considered.

This course reading really opened my eyes to things I take for granted in films and photography and wouldn’t have noticed without it being pointed out. 

[mckennashae]

The Loop Project

For this project, I made a series of GIFs from an episode of Avatar the Last Airbender. Each GIF goes through the stages that Aang (the main character) experiences to open his chakras. I specifically wanted to use these selections to continue the theme in canvas, thus, the GIF’s all capture a moment of opening through the 7 chakras. 

I now realize that “open” wasn’t meant to be the literal theme. (Frantically trying to cover-up the obvious mistake here.) Nonetheless, I thought it was a good play on words to create something compelling. The prompt mentioned using a favorite movie which encouraged me to think about some of the TV series I like and through this the concept was inspired.

[tobeaschwa]

I love the specificity of your choices with the scenes and the content and context behind them. I even more so love, though, thew colors of the scenes. I love that the colors are that of all the elements and correlate to the chakras and I think the fact that they’re all vibrantly colored they fit together so wonderfully.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

Yes Avatar the Last Airbender is such a good choice! I love your color choices and the motion from GIF to GIF. The alignment with chakras? Genuis, fantastic, amazing. Great job on this project!

[sarahdworth]

Home Run

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

I love the animation style, the dimensionally of the ball, and your font choice! Overall a really sweet effect and excellent work. Your whole collection for this project is very fun and gives me 2000′s vibes. Nice job!

[ellianar]

Secret World of Arrietty (2012)

Project 2: “The Loop”

[jocelynnef]

I love the style of Studio Ghibli films, so these are really cute. It makes me want to watch this film since it’s one of the ones I haven’t seen. I like how the first gifs are all from similar scenes, while the rest share a similar color palette.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

I'm obsessed with Studio Ghibli and your GIF collection! The selections all flow really well together and generate such a peaceful vibe. Great job on this project!

[rxthxl]

Technical Exercise 2: Making Mini-Cinema

HI created a GIF about a scene from “My Neighbor Totoro.” I wasn’t sure what moment was the best one, but I decided on the one where Satsuki gives Totoro an umbrella to avoid him from getting wet. I just find this scene adorable. I really enjoyed rewatching this movie; however, picking a specific moment was difficult.

Hopefully, I made it right.

[radioactivepaperclipsinthevoid]

This is so cute! Excellent job!