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DARA BIRNBAUM

This woman is most famously know for her video of wonder woman. She chooses to do most of her work with the mass media images that hint at the mythologies of the culture and history. Dara was one of the first artist to create an video with an imagery from mainstream television. This video was one of the first to be so realistic in this genera and Dara helped pave the way for following artists.

I really enjoy how this video conveys that women are wonderful! Women have many different personas but are capable to achieve anything. Just wait one second and we will be there! At the time this video was made I believe that it helped boost woman's esteems and helped them feel like they could achieve anything. So thank you to Dara for creating a splendid video like the Wonder Woman!

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Sometimes kids are dealt a hard hand in life and end up doing things that get them in trouble and send to Juvenile Detention. Rosana Palazyan is an artist who works with these kids to try and help them with their story. She asks the kids questions that will help paint a story in her mind and then she creates it in her artwork. She also has the kids paint and create their own interpretation of their lives. This process of art making is quite beautiful. To transform a story that is hard to tell into something that is tangible I can only imagine is extremely powerful. The kids are quite blessed to be given therapy with an artist like Rosana.

This form of art isn't the only kind of art Rosana does. She also does other interpretational projects. But I could the ones where she helped the kinds in the Juvenile Detention to be most heart touching. 

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THE WOMAN HOUSE PROJECT 1970

This group of powerful women felt like their voices needed to be head. At his point in time women, gays, and blacks were being miss represented in the art museums, so this group decided this needed to change. Women were artists, gays were artists, and so were blacks. To take a stand there was a group of women who came together and created an art gallery filled with with artwork done by female artists. The fist day that the museum was open only females were allowed to attend. Oddly enough museums found that on the first day the artwork had a greater reaction to then the following days. 

I enjoyed learning about this project because I feel like any deserving artist should be able to display their work in galleries. The fact that the group of woman banned together to change the structure of the galleries is something to commence. Because of this group I feel today when I view galleries that there is an equal representative of the different artists, whether it be white black, male or female. 

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My Manifesto

Develop (project, making, created, idea):

Long Beach helped me get a grasp as to what I wanted to do with my career. People that were involved were my mom and my grandma. The setting helped as well because it was a sales area.

I chose to knit slippers out of wool and felt them down. They were green and gray made for a special someone. This allowed me to be creative for someone I love. I was able to create this because a sheep had its coat shorn off and a spinner spin and clean the wool so it was clean enough to work with. 

I cooked a meal of stake, potatoes, and veggies to maintain my health. The people that helped me with this were the people who grew the food, the people who harvested it, shipped it, and sold it at the store. 

Maintain (relationship, sleep, clean):

I chose to exercise as many days this week that I could so I can keep my body healthy and fit. This helps my mind to have more clarity and feel more at ease. 

I was there for a friend because they were having a hard week and felt as though everything was crashing down on them all at once. 

I maintained my jobs. Going to school full time as well as working at Louie's restaurant a few nights a week as well as nannying for a family. I do this so I can pay my bills as well as do pleasurable things. 

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Daniel Joseph Martinez was one of the artist who's work participated with the Invented Community (temporary). The Idea behind all of these project was to bring the community closer together. Martinez chose to not do his work in densely populated areas or areas that were economically sound, but more so he brought his art into communities that were not sustained in hopes to bring some of the community from the surrounding areas to that place to raise awareness. This was most always accomplished by his projects. People from the city would venture into the streets less traveled on to visit his art exhibits. 

One main reason that Martinez chooses to produce art like this is because he ponders the question "whether history is being written in terms of the economy, the free market, and the corporate museum, and how artists and individuals can organize an evolving, self-sustaining aesthetic to counter the prevalent paradigm." With his art I believe that Martinez truly wasn't the viewer to ponder the setting and to become more involved in their community, not primarily on their own lives.  

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Discussion Question

After being in a term of Art Culture Through Politics my eyes were opened to countless different kinds of art forms. I am curious to see what genera people enjoyed the most. So what genera was your favorite that we discussed?

Personally I thoroughly enjoyed pieces of artwork that the artist tried to engage the audience. For example how Rirktrik Tiravanija uses food as his way to engage the public. I feel as though that is a wonderful way to bring the community together and to have them socially interact in a different setting then they are used to. I also enjoyed how the group called HAHA created the Invented Community (ongoing) in which the project was able to continue after the artist has left. Or how Pedro Reyes asked the community to donate all of their excess guns to help create shovels so trees can be planted in the community. I feel as though all of these projects indirectly effect the community in a way that it brings them closer to accomplish one task. For me a community should always be striving to achieve a common goal, and these artist have found ways to bring that community to together. And for that I feel as though they are a great example of a community artist.

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This video that I chose is called "Fear Eats the Soul" by Rirkrit Tiravanija and is displayed at the Gavin Brown's Enterprise. This video takes you through the museum step by step and you can actually see how people are interacting with his artwork. There appears to be a lot of conversation between people which I believe the artist intended for. There is one part of the video where there are people making screen prints on shirts for people and I think that this was one of the main attractions. I personally enjoy how part of the artwork is people making a product in front of others. Also Rirkrit also always incorporates a meal for people to enjoy as a part of his artwork. His recipes change every time and seem enjoyed by everyone. I enjoyed watching this video because it actually made me feel in a sense present in this artwork. 

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The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limb and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knees and fell to the ground face-first, with my eyes open. Motionless, I watched ants hurry in and out of a hole and I knew that standing up again would be a thousand times harder than the dragon or the swamp and so I did not even try. I just clicked on one thing after another after another.

Miranda July