Sunrise 2x4

Destructive Tape Loops and Things

[annabellemkoerner]

The Feeding

For the final project I was inspired by Yoko Ono’s the cut. While I didn’t let people cut my clothing off I did have people feed me. Being feed put me a vulnerable position I couldn’t control how they fed me or how much.

I work at Casa Bonita, so I decided to walk around and ask my co workers to feed me sopapillas. And take a picture because it took longer than a minute to find people to feed me.

Thoughts and Reasoning:

Eating is something everyone struggles with. It could be eating too much, not enough, healthy or unhealthy. In our society a lot of pressure is put on food aka body image. To give away that power and to feel some vulnerability I say some becausei do know all the people I asked to feel extreme vulnerability I would have had to ask people I don’t know and well this was my place of work so I didn’t do that.

After living in China for two years and having my physical appearance, specifically my weight talked about and scrutinized almost daliy I have become more aware of the struggle. (I am a 135lb 5 ft 6in tall person...I think perfectly average)

What I did:

To push back at societies that think I’m too big or too small because in America I am often told I’m small and should eat more. I decided to give the power away and see what people would do.

I filled one basket with fresh sopapillas and I had another that was empty. I walked around Casa Bonita and every coworker I came across I asked to feed me or not it was up to them.

What others did:

Some feed me the entire sopapilla, some only gave me a bite, the most interesting was the ones who wanted me to spit it out after I took the bite. Some agreed to take a picture during but quite a few said they would feed me but wouldn’t take a picture with me. Making me feel a little ashamed, like it was a secret to eat. Harkening backs to eating and body image is a serious concern.

In the end:

I definitely tried to lighten the heavy body image mood with taking silly photos while eating the sopapillas.

If I could do something different:

I would have like to sit in one place and had people approach me to feed me, and have more people intentionally watching others feed me rather than whoever happened to be around as the audience.

[alyshavictoriaann]

I love this idea! There is an uncomfortable vulnerability in being fed, and these pictures capture that. I definitely see humor in these images, too. It speaks to how ridiculous the attitudes towards eating can be!

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Definitely a vulnerable position to be force fed Casa Bonita food. What an interesting concept that could be expanded on in other forms.  Like going a week and only eating the food people feed you. it would be interesting to see how the amount of food changes over time and how people would respond to the responsibility. 

[hailo7ts-blog1]

My idea for this final project was to bring something of myself into performing art. When I thought of the verb, tap, it made me think of anxiety, impatience, and procrastination. All things that I, and many others, deal with every day. So the story my piece tells is that in a day to day life I face it before I walk out my front door when I put my shoes on. Each pair of shoes is an expression of a different day, and the taping of my foot is the anxiety, impatience and procrastination. If I were to do things differently it would maybe take an approach where i took a video each day for a year so that you see a more visible passing of time.

[navin-the-jerk]

Project # 4, Connected, Video Games in The Woods

For my final project, I chose to take an idea I had for the second project. When doing the 2nd project I wanted to take images of people on their phones and paste them in some of the most well known natural wonders of the world. Having a person staring at their phone while in the presence of natural beauty would have been a fun thing to capture, but I did not have to photo shop images to do that, images of people using their pomes in nature is a normal occurrence these days.

The main idea behind this piece is that we are always connected. Even when people travel and explore the most remote places, they are able to share that place with the rest of the world in a matter of seconds. People no longer have to travel or experience the outdoors; they can visit the outdoors through different forms of video and media. In some ways this can be a good thing. People that don’t have the means or ability to travel and explore the world can, via these different digital avenues.  In other ways, this sucks. The excitement of these new and unexplored places can be discovered by logging on to the Internet, so there is no need to travel and explore to see them.

 My process was to  load my truck up with my tv, tv satnd , a chair, head set and a playstation controller. I drove around up Golden Gate Canyon and took random dirt roads, Unitil I found a place that I felt would be a good spot. I unloaded my truck set up my phone and then beagn fimling. there were a few cars that went by on a differtn road tthat could se where I was but Im not sure if they saw me. I was worred and nervous to do it but wehn it was done it felt good was i was confrtable doing it. I Like this idea and think it would be fun to try other places.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Great idea. Visually this is great, and i think it wouldn’t have worked as well without the headphones.  Visually and audibly drowning out the surroundings because of the addictive video game is perfectly represented here. I know those type of people that travel or go somewhere only to tell other people they’ve been there.  It’s unfortunate because they never get to really experience what they’re there to experience. Beautifully illustrated. 

[cyrenaaa-deactivated20200614]

project 3

In response to Cubitt’s “Projection: Vanishing and Becoming” I used the theme of projection, most obviously through light and shadow. Lighting is something I am sensitive to; I’m aware of the effect it has on an environment and the mood within it, so naturally I have various colored lights around my home to create different moods. In this project, I filmed some of my roommates smoking cigarettes on our porch in the glow of a red lamp. Cigarettes are a prevalent example of vanishing and becoming in my daily life and though we all know the dangers of smoking, I still find it to be picturesque. The original audio was left in the video because I thought my roommates’ narration was humorous and meta.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Smoke always makes a video look cooler. Hollywood has done a great job of making the image of smoking look tantalizing. Cool lighting in the video, what other color lights do you have at your place? I do the same thing in my house.  Each room has a different type of white lighting depending on what the rooms for. Love this red look. 

[the-grungella]

Project #4

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Impressive, reminds me of a time i was skating downtown and i turned a corner to see these 2 guys rapelling from the top of a building and bouncing off the walls and dancing to some music being played.  Definitely would catch you off guard if you saw it. Great balance, 

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Theme: Failure

Technique: Live Art

For my final project i chose to put on a live ambient performance alongside Colfax in the middle of a Monday. I took a 5 second music sample from a meditation cassette and made a tape loop out of it. Then i rigged the tape player up to an app on my ipad and connected a portable speaker to it. The idea was to share a contrasting view of the calming meditation music and the buzzing traffic of angry colfax drivers. Obviously its completely drowned out by the traffic and all around noises and electromagnetic signals in the area and fails to calm anybody down. I sold my car 6 months ago and have been commuting via bicycle or skateboard for everything and its a much more relaxed and energizing experience than ive ever had driving my car down the busy (and getting busier) streets. When youre walking down the sidewalk you have time to stop and experience things. The loop snapped, or got twised or something during the performance and caused silence and electrical buzzing. Which i guess adds to the performance because everyone was moving so fast, they had no way knowing. And ambient music being so ambiguous as it is, i could have just kept that to myself. If i were to try this differently i would have liked to have more performers and some real musicians there to give a "sidewalk set" to anyone passing by slow enough to hear it.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Of Polarization

To Erase

To Spill

To Conflict

To Drag

To Drown Out

To Succumb

To Loop

To Join

To Share

To Acknowledge

To Remember

To Hear

To Listen

To Compete

To Overcome

To Mingle

To Integrate

To Intertwine

To Bind

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Module 4 Reading

I’ll admit that, out of everything we’ve read about so far this semester, i know the least about performance art. This isn’t necessarily something that i keep an eye on, and i don’t really follow the works of any performance artists.  That being said, i admire the spirit of performance art as it’s roots were being grown.  I like the phrasing from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: “We will destroy the museums.”  That’s such a metal way to look and respond to the modern art world.  Their anger towards the way these museums operated is commendable.  I feel that way here in Denver alot.  I don’t remember the last time i saw an artist on the Santa Fe Art Walk that really blew me away.  We’ve kind of gotten stagnant in my very biased opinion, on the museum and gallery works that are on display and promoted.  Anything that goes against the grain of the modern scene gets at least a little respect from my monkey brain. Once i read the part about John Cage, however, i realized that i did know at least 1 performance artist.  I remember seeing his Water Walk on tv at some point in my teenage years and was confused and extremely intrigued by that concept.  He ultimately led to my fascination with tape loop music, and i remember reading about a performance he did with 88 different tape loops playing on 11 tape machines.  The performance started the second someone walked into the room, and ended when the last person decided to leave.  

The Artist is Present

I actually saw the Documentary Now! episode about this film before seeing the real film and had to rewatch it after this assignment to understand the actual jokes of the film.  I’m always impressed when watching films like this, because i had never heard of this artist before, and to see a film where it sums up decades of work by her, some which are massive pieces of work, really shows how little i know about the art world and what it’s accomplished. That performance she did with the bow and arrow being held at full pressure made my hands sweat.  That’s such a simple idea, yet i physically kind of retracted from my seat when i saw it, it really made me uneasy.  I don’t give enough recognition to performance art, because i think the phrase has a stigma around it.  To be honest, i’m not even sure what that stigma is, but i think i am judgemental right off the bat and have a preformed idea of what it’s about.  This film is kind of that harsh reminder to not be so close-minded about it. 

[sunrise2x4-blog]

For my video i chose to take something from the past, destroy it, and make it into something new. I took a passage from the book that read: “Always changing, never twice the same.” These words were etched into the floor of the Los Angeles Museum.  I took a cassette of Willie Nelson, smashed it open, and grabbed about 20 seconds of music out of it. Then i made it into a loop so that it played the same section of music over and over.  Then i hooked the loop up to some guitar pedals with delay and reverb, so that as the loop played (at half speed), it was constantly changing and forming into something completely new and different than how it was intended. I wanted to use the quote i used in my article response as inspiration for this. The quote i thought of while making this video was “The realm of shadows also equates to Plato’s cave in that it is colorless, odorless, flavorless, simulacrum of the world stripped of what most makes it real.”  I stripped the tape of just about all of its musical properties except for a few flavorless notes that are almost completely drowned out in noise and fuzz. Making tape loops is a tedious process, and a lot of the time you are left with something not even close to what you anticipated, and depending on the age of the tape (in this case a 30+ year old tape), the adhesive on the ribbon of the tape is being scraped away, literally scraping off the music notes from the song.  Since this is such an old tape, the more the loop played while i was recording the piece, the more of the musical notes were being stripped away.  These are called Disintegration Loops, which evolves over time into something far from what it was intentionally meant to be.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Reading #3

Book Response:

I love how many references this book has to pieces of work that i’ve never heard of.  The Ice Pyramids in the Arctic Circle reminded me of a more recent piece, that i imagine was loosely based off this, by Olafur Eliasson. His team went out into the arctic and gathered a dozen massive icebergs, and trucked them into the front steps of a museum arranged in a circle.  Eventually they melted under the hot sun, but it made good commentary of the melting ice shelves.  The idea that the piece should evolve over time and then eventually disappear are the 2 reasons why i think illegal graffiti is so cool.  The more risky and obvious a piece of graffiti is, most likely the less amount of time it will last.  Only a finite amount of people get to witness the art, and it’s not meant for everybody to even be a fan of, just a select audience that happens to see it.  The longer a piece stays up, the more it fades and becomes a part of the environment again.  It reminds me of a piece of graffiti i saw in California, i was walking underneath a bridge and someone tagged a tic-tac-toe board, and over the course of 3 days, the game was slowly played and finished.  Quite possibly the longest game of tic-tac-toe i’ve ever heard of.

Article Response

Alright, wow, yeah that was a lot.  What went through my head as i tried to read through all this was how a lot of us are living our lives through our phones instead of out in reality.  The screen that projects how our life is being plotted through our social medias is an illusion of what path our life is actually taking. There was interesting quote about Plato’s The Cave, (just about the only book i remember reading in Philosophy 101 8 years ago.) “The realm of shadows also equates to Plato’s cave in that it is colorless, odorless, flavorless, simulacrum of the world stripped of what most makes it real.”  Ironically, our generation of social media users take their photos of reality, and boost up the colors and flavors of the photograph until it is no longer a photograph based in reality, which makes reality grey and boring in comparison. There’s a large majority of people choosing to ‘opt out’ of reality and create their own through their cellphones.  Whether that’s a good or bad thing i guess is up to them.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Excercise 3

[hailo7ts-blog1]

Project #2:

My creation of turning pictures of Winnie the Pooh into a gif!

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Clean edits, i guess you can’t go wrong with Winnie the Pooh

[staciteague-blog]

uncensored vintage ads

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Awesome job editing these together, the tongue in cheek edits you made to these are so effective it actually seems to make noise. Very clean job on the edits 

[claudick-deactivated20200414]

Project #2 - Fashionable Fails

Artist Statement:

For this project I wanted to show the not so glamorous part of fashion and modeling. This is to be in stark contrast to my first project, “Desert Fashion,” which was used to highlight the beauty and glamour of fashion, this shows the mistakes and the mishaps of the clothing and the industry.

[the-grungella]

So sad to watch

[sunrise2x4-blog]

I love that you made this compilation because those runways always seem to be so upscale and otherworldly, that putting them on blast that they are still human is kind of refreshing. 

[annabellemkoerner]

Making

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Visually liked that all of the visuals were close to the same color palette, obviously besides the last one. I liked that you threw the last one in though because it illustrates how ridiculous all of this waste is. 

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Extremely talented tape loop artist: Marcus Fisher creates incredible art installations with tape players and tape. The repetetive and unpredictable nature that tape loops provide to the listener is rewarding and hypnotizing.  These gifs are from two separate videos that showcase two separate installations.  Visually his work is mesmerizing and you find yourself sitting and staring at the screen over the repetitive visuals. I found it only fitting to showcase that here for our time spent looking at loops. These old pieces of machinery paired with new electronics makes for a beautiful contrast of bringing the past with us as we move forward. Breathing life into technology that is well on its way out. 

[sbarofskymsu-blog-deactivated20]

Project 2 Artist Statement

For this GIF series, I wanted to highlight what I like to call “New Americana”. I work for Wood Stickers in Denver Colorado and operate a UV flatbed printer on a part time basis. I firmly believe the emphasis on small businesses here in Denver has caused a resurgence in jobs like this, a new “factory” job. Each machine in the warehouse bares its intricacies, and it is up to the person, the machinist, to give these items a purpose and propel the business and the worker forward. The GIFs were originally videos taken during a typical work day. 

[hailo7ts-blog1]

The change in color within this gif is very attractive, it makes me as a viewer more intrigued as well as curious as to what else I might find in the moving images.

[sunrise2x4-blog]

Beautiful example, i love the changing colors and the full view of the process. These are shot really well.