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Being a mother is filled with so many things. So many emotions, so many actions, so many duties, so many moments. What does it mean to be a mother? I think t...

Being a mother is filled with so many things. So many emotions, so many actions, so many duties, so many moments. What does it mean to be a mother? I think that can vary from person to person to fit their needs, perspective, and background. To me being a mother is many things. It is to care. Since the moment my children were born it is my duty as their mother to care for them. Being a mother is to teach. We guide our children through this world as they grow. We teach them everything from how to take their first step, how to speak, how to eat, how to read, how to solve complex problems and everything in between. Being a mother is to sacrifice. It is not about just you anymore. It is about a whole other living, breathing human being. This little one who is part of you. To be a mother is to Love. To love unconditionally. To love your child inside and out. To be their rock, their support, their guide, their comfort. To love someone more than you need air to breath is an intense feeling and experience. Motherhood is sacred to me and to love my children is something that is unbreakable.

#MSU art student #4d art #performance art #final project #to love #motherhood

littleblackchurch

Artist Statement "Cutting Ties"

As we grow, experience life and its many stages, perspectives, opinions and believes evolve. The hope is always that the evolution guides us towards a better understanding of ourselves and the system as a whole. To be able find a harmonious union of the individual to the whole, as participant as well as an observer. To be objective while being complicit in the contract we have entered with the rest of society. Weeding through the trappings, trends, and pursuits to attain something greater. To see the past and present as indispensable and dependent, rather than the current dismissing the former. Inspired, elevated, transcendent.

Working with Monte on the project was a collaborative effort in the truest sense. We initially started the process through a conversation around just what we intended to do regarding this project. We had individual ideas about our projects, but as the conversation progressed, working together instead of separate seemed undeniable. I had an initial concept surrounding the presentation and progression of the piece, while Monte had a strong direction for the audio component. We were able to convene, listen to the audio and erupted into deeper explorations of personal ideology and life experience. These conversations allowed us to edit and define the final piece. We worked side by side adapting, inventing and perfecting the performance. With the additional help of studio monitor Tatum we were successful in bringing our efforts to fruition. This piece was rich from start to finish, and getting to work with such a talented artist in Monte was a gift.

schizomanicmeditations

As a longstanding component of mainstream ideology, essentialism posits that objects, concepts, or individuals possess an unchanging and transcendent essence that defines their identity. However, a closer examination of our reality reveals that such entities have a multiplicity of ways of being that cannot be reduced to a fixed essence. This realization challenges the very foundation of essentialist thought and invites us to rethink our assumptions about identity and the world around us.

In the mainstream narrative, we are often presented with a false dichotomy of human nature, one that reduces us to either selfish, greedy, and animalistic beings or cooperative, compassionate, and altruistic ones. Similarly, we are presented with a limited set of options for how we should live our lives, be it in terms of diet, interests, or spirituality. This oversimplified view of the world has historically been used to justify oppressive systems of institutional domination, where individuals are reduced to their most basic characteristics and subjugated accordingly.

Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, my work seeks to challenge this essentialist worldview and to explore the multiplicity of ways in which we can exist and interact with the world. Deleuze's concept of the "virtual" emphasizes the potentiality and indeterminacy of reality, highlighting the many possible ways in which things can be. By breaking away from essentialism, we can embrace this virtual realm and imagine new possibilities for ourselves and our society.

In this collaborative performance piece, titled "Breaking Ties," I seek to question the mainstream definition of the human experience and propose that there are multiple ways of existing that are not reducible to a simple binary. We can reject the false dichotomy of diet, secular vs. spiritual, materialism vs. idealism, and individual vs. collective, and instead, embrace the many possible ways of being. Through my art, I aim to inspire viewers to rethink their assumptions and imagine new ways of being and interacting with the world.

This piece also touches on the importance of recognizing our shared humanity and embracing our common experiences of suffering, rejection, lust, and loss, as well as our capacity for love, acceptance, mutualism, and understanding, despite differences in ideology and culture. By acknowledging the diversity of ways in which individuals choose to live their lives, we can strive towards building a society that promotes individual autonomy and personal fulfillment. A decentralized society that respects and values individual differences could provide the necessary framework for people to live according to their own meaning, paving the way for a more harmonious and inclusive world.

While there are various ways to interpret our intentions, Fish and I intentionally infused our work with ambiguity and contention that would invoke conversation. Through the physical performance, we aimed to depict the archetypal process of severing ties with a particular person, thought pattern, or mode of interaction, in favor of a mutual alternative. The performance embodied this universal struggle, inviting viewers to reflect on their own experiences and consider the various meanings that could be extracted from the piece.

Working with Fish was an incredible experience and a pleasure. Despite our differences in life experiences, personal philosophies, and artistic visions, we both saw this project as simply an exploration of various ideas– a perspective that I value most in the art world.

lausuearts

Art Project #4 Performance Art

to create. to study. to relax. to make. to think. to watch.

Artist Statement: To perform and show bits of my "real" life as an artist through these images.

I think people tend to have false ideals about artists that they might live big loud wild lives while creating arts. When people ask me what I do/ want to do for a living, and I would tell them that I'm an artist and want to create art. They somehow always think I'm either spending my time being stashed away in a warehouse for many hours making quirky arts or that I'm doing something wild with many people everyday when in reality, artists are just the same as everyone else. We all have to work, study, and rest. our lives aren't as glamour and crazy as people seem to think. There are still some misconception about artists because of the internet like social media. Social media allows people to perform as someone they're not, as someone they want to be. Because of that, people tend to have a hard time seperating the reality of who that person really is from the persona they created on the internet. That allows people to perceive and create unintentional false ideals about other people such as artists. When we are on the internet, we are performing because in reality, most people don't really want to see the real us. This project is about undoing that.

Experiment #4: Richard Serra’s Verb List

• To drive

• To listen

• To meditate

• To prepare

• To remove

• To unload

• To roll

• To gather

• To stack

• To cheers

• To drink

• To dance

• To relax

• To loosen up

• To set up

• To plug in

• To perform

• To play

• To sing

• To escape

#msu art student #4d art #metal #richard serra #verb list #art experiment

Reading and Response #4

Rosalee Goldberg is an art Historian who has been involved in the performance art world throughout the US and England. Her essay ‘Performance: A Hidden History’ dives into the rich history of performance art since 1909. I personally had no idea the in depth history of this form of art until reading this essay. She speaks on the medium that is performance art and how is had ‘developed along the edges of disciplines such as literature, poetry, film, theatre, music, architecture, and painting’. Goldberg points out that this type of art medium creates a direct relationship with the public/viewers and it is a form of expression for those who wish to “challenge the viewers’ perceptions of art and the limits of those perceptions’. This description of performance art in all honestly really made me think on how I have viewed performance art in the past. I found the rest of her essay to be very informative and intriguing as she touched on each decade of performance art. From early Futurist performance work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti to the art spaces in New York such as The Kitchen Center in the 1970s.

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American artist who wrote the essay ‘The Other History of Intercultural Performance”. This essay goes in depth into another side of Performance art History. I personally would describe this as the more of the “ugly truth” of performance art history. She speaks on the history of how people indigenous to lands of Asia, Africa, and the Americas were taken to Europe to be put on display for entertainment, ‘scientific research’, and for ‘contemplation’. Basically people were treated as though they were animals in a zoo or a circus. I personally think of the old time ‘Freak Shows’ as well. This essay really opened my eyes on what some throughout history considered ‘performance art’ or ‘intercultural performance when it was basically exploitation. This essay was a very powerful one.

I had personally watched the documentary ‘The Artist is Present’ by Marina Abramovic a few years ago. Marina is known for her performance to push limits physically and emotionally. In this performance she would sit in a chair at a table and allow visitors to sit across from her, locking eyes. She would do this for eight hours a day for almost 3 months. Some visitors would be moved to tears as they sat silent across from the artist. On the opening night of the performance she was surprised by her ex lover/partner and veteran of performance art Ulay in one of the most emotional and powerful moments of the entire performance. I feel in her performance she opens herself up and makes herself vulnerable for the unexpected moments between strangers.

#performance art #MSU art student #4D art

Corruption for Profit.

“Cash rules everything around me, dollar dollar bill yall.”

We as society are driving by the all mighty dollar. Everything we do revolves around money and making money. We go to work everyday to earn money to survive. We spend money on the things we need to survive. We also earn and spend to satisfy our wants and desires. What else does the $ fuel? War? Corruption? Government? Politics? Healthcare? It seems that money even fuels the worst components of the world. War for profit. Medicine for profit. People for profit. Power for profit. Corruption for Profit.

The old saying goes that “money is the root of all evil”, is there some truth in that? Some also say that “money can’t buy you happiness”. Does that apply in today’s society? Some may say yes and some no. However we can agree that money rules the world......

#4D art #c.r.e.a.m.#MSU art student #video art

#vacation #the shining #4d art #msu art student #the dirty heads #mashup #Youtube

Reading and Response #3- Projection: Vanishing and Becoming by Sean Cubitt

Sean Cubitt dives into some of the fundamentals of drawing and painting. He examines these principles and how they translate into video and film. Cubitt begins his article by historically diving into the Buddhist tale of the origin of art and how it compares to Pliny’s story of the origins of paining and use of light and shadows. These tales go into the origin of use of line, light, reflection, shadow, and projection. Projection is a very important word in this article. From artists projecting light and shadows onto prints, as well as lines and colors; Cubitt also explores the metaphorical meaning of projection. How we as humans use projection. It is vital in childhood and human development. Think back to when we were children and could not communicate properly with words we would have to project emotion to get across what we were needing. Projection could be literal, metaphorical, implied,etc. In video art you are able to project all of the above. With the creation of film and cameras artist had the ability to visually project their message. Rather that message be direct or implied, the artist had more resources at their fingertips to create their visual work. Art is considered a way to preserve. Video would be the ultimate preservation tool. To capture a moment in time, forever. A way to outlive Father Time. This made me think if this is something video artists consider when starting their project. Is that part of the purpose of using video? For this particular artwork to “cheat death”. With today’s technology like the internet and media platforms, even if a video is deleted does it really “die” or does it live forever in some spaces? Do artists consider that aspect today?

5 examples of time based art/video art/film/cinematic artist:

William Kentridge (South African, born 1955). The Refusal of Time, 2012. Five-channel digital video installation, black-and-white and color, sound, 30 min. Steel megaphones, and a breathing machine ("elephant"), dimensions variable. Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2013. Purchased for The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and Wendy Fisher Gifts and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler 21st Century Art Fund (2013.250). © William Kentridge. All rights reserved.

Video Flag, 1995, Nam June Paik. Pictured on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1996. “Video Flag’s enormous bank of 70 14 in. CRT monitors represents the American flag’s stars and stripes through flashing imagery of technological advances and iconic moments from American politics: news stills, rotating shots of the State of Liberty, scrolling streams of zeros and ones (the binary language of computers), and a morphing sequence portraying U.S. president portraits, from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton. The always-present image of the flag serves as a backdrop against which these individual cultural events, personas, and technologies are experienced, recalled, and understood.” https://www.si.edu/tbma/work/video-flag

Pipilotti Rist, Open my Glade, Times Square, 2016. “For instance, he work of Pipilotti Rist is notable in the proportions that Video Art has taken in recent decades. In 2016, she was selected to exhibit her work in Times Square. The artwork consisted of 62 video screens, monumental in size, right in the middle of all the advertising screens in Times Square. On these 62 screens, looping over several days, numerous videos were shown. There, in the middle of one of the most emblematic squares of capitalism, she smashed her face against a window that was placed just a few centimeters from the camera lens. Her face deformed, her makeup spread out, she questioned, brutally, the gaze that the spectator has on feminine beauty.” https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/what-is-video-art/

Looking for Langston, 1988. Photograph: Bfi/Sankofa Film/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Isaac Julien | Looking for Langston, 1989

“More than a tribute to the American poet Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Julien’s film is a powerful meditation on the history of black gay desire, the intersection of queer and black politics with art and activism, poetry and prejudice. The action plays out against a soundtrack mixing 1920s jazz and anachronistic 1980s disco.” https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/17/warhol-steve-mcqueen-a-history-of-video-art-barbara-london

Lorna, 1984, interactive videodisk installation, infinite duration, video stills

“With Lorna, Lynn Hershman Leeson created the first art work that used laserdisk technology. Exploiting the interactive capabilities of the medium, the artist enables users to explore and intervene in the world of an agoraphobic woman named Lorna.” https://www.lynnhershman.com/project/interactivity/

Reading and Response #3- Introduction to Video Art by Lea Collet

In Lea Collet’s essay on Introduction to Video Art, she travels through time from the very early onset of film to present day examining how Video Art transformed from a movement to it’s own genre in the art world. Since the development of photography and film the creativity behind their uses have exploded. She mentions the first use of artist film with Le Voyage Dans la Lune, A Trip to the Moon by Georges Mielies in 1902. This example set apart the differences from regular cinema to video art.

Collet’s examines artist like Bruce Nauman and Paul Maheke who used video to capture their performances using their body’s in the exploration of performance. The ability to add capture sound and the performance but not be tied down to a certain location; it gave artists flexibility in working outside the gallery. Being able to have the freedom to create art and capture it outside of the studio/gallery allowed the artists to incorporate the outside world into their art in a more raw way. An example of this would be Pipilloti Rist’s Ever is Over All from 1997. Rist also creates a fluid double screen within this artistic film which was also re-used by Beyoncé in her music video Hold Up from 2017. I really enjoyed this example Collet provided and how we can see it in todays video culture. I am a product of the MTV and VH1 music video era. There is a lot of art that is referenced or created in most music videos.

Collet also explored the many different artist who use video art in various ways in their installations. Continuous loops being played on TV’s/screens that are arranged in precise and purposeful installations. Such artists mentioned like Issachar Julian, Dara Bimbaum, and Lis Rhodes just to name a few. These artist use video to address their topics in more visual ways with their use of video art. Even in working with the 4D world light is very important. Some artists such as June Paik uses projected images and illustrations via a bright light to cast her visual installations. Lis Rhodes’ An Oppositon to Commercial Cinema she uses light and negative space to create an installation that is encouraged to have audience participation. The light from the projector creates shadows when the audience engages. It was one of the most innovative ways film is used in a work that I found in this essay. It showed ways to use film even more outside of the box.