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[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. 

[cyrenaaa-deactivated20200614]

This is a great and hilarious idea/documentation. Involving other people in your performance makes a cool dynamic

[claudick-deactivated20200414]

That requires a lot of trust in your coworkers, so they don't feed you something bad. But I liked that you were so willing to be vulnerable and dependent on others. If they didn't feed you than you may not have eaten

[the-grungella]

I love your photos, and especially the video. It does look fun and personal, everyone loves casa Bonita sopapillas :) a fun idea.

[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 filiming. there were a few cars that went by on a different road, that could see where I was but I’m not sure if they saw me. I was worried and nervous to do it but when it was done it felt good and i was comfortable doing it. I Like this idea and think it would be fun to try other places.

[the-grungella]

I love this theme of nature versus culture and your interpretation could work in a lot of different settings. It’s really original and creative good job.

[sbarofskymsu-blog-deactivated20]

Final Project

This Totally isn’t Familiar at All

Artist Statement: For this project I wanted to interpret failure as that of our country’s inability to learn history’s lesson. I chose to wear a pink triangle to assert the fact that caging humans is ugly fascist behavior comparable to what happened to Jewish people, LGBTQ people, and other minorities in World War II Germany. As a Jewish LGBTQ person, I think it is important for us to reflect, even if it causes us discomfort. 

[the-grungella]

This piece is great it really evokes emotion even in such a short time. Great way to talk about something going on in a physical way.

[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.

[cyrenaaa-deactivated20200614]

This is very well done. Cool concept and nice editing!

[the-grungella]

That’s a great idea to do one everyday, and maybe change the background. That passing of time kind of makes me feel expectant, like waiting. It’s a cool collection.

[cyrenaaa-deactivated20200614]

project 4

This video is a glimpse into my band Sweetness Itself’s performance last night. Though live music and performance art are categorized differently, I believe they are one in the same. I do preform fairly often and every time I still feel a slight fear of failure. Art is very much about identity and I try to use it as a way of forging my identity. It is still developing and evolving, as is my music and performance style. At its core, art is also about pure expression. Bringing such personal expression to a live audience and attempting to have the audience feel with you is a beautiful and challenging thing.

[the-grungella]

Love how this shows the many possibilities of performance. Movies and recordings of live performances can be works of art in themselves. It was great to be a part of the audience!

[the-grungella]

Project #4 Artist Statement

Women throughout time and place have been destined to endure degradation and challenges from others.  As the United States nears new Presidential elections, I have been grappling with those issues that affect us.  The unbroken line of male presidents is another symptom of the habits we have kept and which have brought us to such an uncertain time.  The resilience of women to be seen can be hard to maintain as we are confronted with turning point issues in the world.  My video aims to focus on those powers women have to endure and hold up themselves and others.  Because women in the U.S. are the backbone of the family, they can also be the backbone of political leadership.  My message is to trust and listen to the women that seek to override the boundaries of sexism.  

[the-grungella]

Project #4

[the-grungella]

Performance: A Hidden History Response

Performance art, like the art of projection, is an artform people participate in on a daily basis.  Goldberg’s piece explores those boundaries between art and everyday behavior, and asks how we can use these artforms more fluidly in life.  “Performance is a catalyst for the culture of the future.” Performance art is more able to intimately emulates reality because it must be experienced firsthand.  Furthermore, it encapsulates all other aspects through which making art can manifest.  Fashion, for example uses multiple mediums and displays them through the medium of the body and the person wearing the clothes.  We perform important interactions with others by creating the right state of mind in ourselves.  Since performance is based so heavily on state of mind, it can help us understand the ways in which we are performing all works of art.

[the-grungella]

1. To belittle

2. To withstand

3. To grow

[the-grungella]

Verbs

To withstand

To control

To release

To fight

To harass

To criticize

To overcome

To seek

To subjugate

To demean

To belittle

To reject

To replace

To ignore

To surrender

To change

To grow

To ground

To uplift

To restart

[the-grungella]

Exercise #3 

[the-grungella]

The Artist is Present Response

When we make 2 or 3 dimensional, the challenge artists face is to push the boundaries of what they can do with that limitation.  Getting to know Abromovic and her work frames performance art as a great form of art.  Using the body and all of its contents as the medium for a story challenges the artist to push the boundaries of that medium as well.  But we are all aware of the boundaries are bodies are bound by.  Pain is something everyone knows, yet is often feared and bottled up.  Exposing that pain connects us in a more intimate way than we are accustomed to.  

Sitting confined can sometimes be painful.  My first impression of Abromovic was to recoil and call her crazy.  Her grotesque manner of discussing human problems was unusual in that I felt to be a part of it.  The feelings her live audiences must go through as they watch her confinement must be rapid and overwhelming.  Although I could not know it without experiencing it, I empathize with her vulnerability and her pain.  She puts herself in this vulnerable place, though.  Is the sacrifice of her body and pride enough to convey her message? Sometimes the shock value alone could do that, and this film has encouraged me to sacrifice my personal comfort and look closer.  

[sbarofskymsu-blog-deactivated20]

Project 3

Artist Statement: “Vanishing and Becoming, my dinner”

For this project I wanted to take the idea of “Vanishing and Becoming” quite literally through the life of my tomato plant harvest, as well as some associated chaos that can come along with transforming something into something else. My videos are all original because I wanted this to be a personal project from the perspective of the artist. My audio is all royalty free use sound effects compiled through Adobe Premiere. I’m inspired by the chaotic nature of DADA art, as well as mainstream ASMR videos. I kept my lighting according to my environment, with some adjustments to the saturation and highlights to emphasize the natural shadows of both environments. I have distorted the audio slightly for a more “natural” and chaotic effect. 

[the-grungella]

Our ideas were very similar, yet yours was very focused on the main event of the tasty peta bread.  The life cycles of our meals and drinks can be chaotic, and the feeling of the chopping and other harsh sounds adds an element of stress or anticipation.  

[andymsu-blog]

1 minute video for projection 

[the-grungella]

I think you did capture the project outline for both themes of projection and vanishing and becoming.  The fact that you’re riding at night down a dirt trail combined with the music makes this ominous, as if you were trying to vanish and escape to somewhere else.  I think you could have pushed a spooky theme by adding in different videos from different settings that add to the mood. 

[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.

[the-grungella]

This project is awesome because it is unique, and a fun remix.  You did a great job on the close-ups and the pace of your video.  To me it had the appearance of like playing with something like Legos.  The comedic moments were great too and maybe could have been expanded. I like your theme about trying to re-use outdated stuff.  

[staciteague-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtIor9NRu4Y)

PROJECT 3

[the-grungella]

Your statement here is strong and confrontational, packing a lot of background information into a short time period.  I appreciate your call for critical thinking and accountability in reporting.  The subliminal-type statements you are making could be more expressive if perhaps they included some questions, background info, or something to engage the audience beyond stereotypes about republicans.  A solid reflection and critique of corporate media.  

[annabellemkoerner]

For project #3 I did bang bang I shot you down as the song with a recording of a dandelion gone to seed. Both of these things for me have a permanence because they are recorded now so therefor they are now forever, while also having this sense of ending. The song is about being shot down and being gone, and dandelions go to seed at the end of their life cycle and get blown away. They have a delicate existence.

I chose an extremely limited color palette with a “western” filter on it. I wanted it to be bright and dull at the same time. When the colors were vibrant and super saturated it was too happy for my theam of fragility, ending, and eclipsing.

The sun also plays a big role in this project for me because I couldn’t look at it while I recorded it but my goal was to have the dandelion; something so fragile and small eclipse the sun; something so big and powerful. To block it out without any harm to my eyes is also a powerful thought. This really harkens back to our reading in the way that video is a reflection of life and let’s us see and do things now that wouldn’t be possible with other media’s.

[the-grungella]

I love the focus on depth of emotion here through the senses.  The sound of the blowing on combination with the swaying of the dandelion in the wind draws me into the moment.  Using something as universal as the dandelion connects my memories of this experience.  I love the contrast when the dandelion blocks out the sun, using a filter to bump it up could have added to the somber vibe.