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Project #5 Performance Art

Constructing Beauty

Using imagery from pop culture (logos, icons and female models) I construct a mask and hide my face until I can no longer see. Through the process of covering and uncovering, I’m questioning my own identity as it relates to standards of beauty and standards of expected participation in visual culture.

Drawing is not my forte, so I thought I’d offer explanation. The drawings are supposed to be styled like an infographic, very simplified versions of the verbs that match. For the performance, I’m still working on solidifying my ideas.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wYXw4K0A3g)

Heineken Just Put Out The Antidote To That Pepsi Kendall Jenner Ad.

Performance: A Hidden History

Roselee Goldberg’s Writing, Performance: A Hidden History, begins by explaining the history of performance art from dadaism, to futurism and its difficulty to be categorized by art historians. The author states that performance art attempts to change the perception of the audience and that it has historically been an collaborative form of art. For example, Futurists yelled at their audience for their values of bourgeois, ultimately causing in a riot. Some of the end results include jail time.

Other art movements like dadaism with its cabaret voltaire and the bauhaus with its study of body movements in space. Eventually the genre became its own medium around the time of the Second World War. Today performance art is mostly body art, but the artists are questioned more by the public about their intentions.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4lp4w8lNYs)

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present is a film that follows performance artist Marina Abramovic during preparation for her MOMA show that shares the title of the video. What’s notable is the amount of the artist's past works incorporated into the film. Her past works range from body harm to nudity, to shouting numbers outside of a moving truck for hours.

During The Artist is Present exhibition, Abramovic agrees to be present at the show for three months during opening hours. During that time, she sits in a large with with two chairs, separated by a small table. Museum visitors line up to sit with the artist and they share a moment of gazing at one another. In Between visitors, the artist looks down, closes her eyes and readies herself for the next experience. It’s powerful because she is not only mentally and physically present herself, but the viewer is also participating in the performance and connecting to her through gaze only.

She had experimented with a similar show years before with her partner and lover, but he had to leave because of his bodily pain and rapid weight loss. Here, Abramovic replaces her partner with strangers by the thousands. When her partner sat down across the table at her first show, they were struck with emotion and gazed at one another with tears in their eyes. Abramovic changed her position on the chair to reach for her hands across the table to him and the audience cheered at the powerful moment they were able to witness first hand (see video).

Although that was a beautiful highlight of the film, the most important aspect was the physical and mental strain it took to complete this performance art. In the end her exhibition was attended by over half a million people. The footage was powerful, almost impossible to describe. If I were to try, I would say that Abramovic’s exchange was far beyond performance art. Through the power of the gaze, an exchange of true compassion and intimacy occurred. If shows the power of the gaze, the power of human connection, the power of empathy and most importantly, the power of presence.

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Alice Aycock, Sand/Fans

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Project #4

This project was really difficult for me. I’ve never used Adobe Premier so I’m happy with what I did. Sorry for returning to such a negative theme again with addiction. I call it “Cycle”.

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This project shows balance, light, movement, and the use of live sound as well as recorded sound. I call it, “The Vanishing Hooper”.

This project means a lot to me because it seems to tell a story through movement, light, and sound. I cant thank my girlfriend enough for being so talented and willing to help me with my projects!

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After reading Cubitt’s excerpt again before posting this last night I almost scratched it for something else entirely, something darker and more sinister. However I decided to stick with it because I enjoy the almost-contrasting mood this piece gives from Cubitt’s. A more calm peaceful feel, expressing transition through color and light, with human and light itself vanishing and becoming.

Project #4 – Vanishing and Becoming

I’m calling this Passage of Presence

As I considered vanishing and becoming, I began to think of the conscious of thought and how even when people share the same space they are not necessarily there together in the moment. The colorful clouds add a layer of abstraction to the stormy scene. The heartbeat sound is both calming and terrifying to me and it’s the constant.

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Exercise #4: Music Video Remix.

I used footage from Sansara (2011), and music From Thomas Ragsdale. I edited it a little to fit some of the cuts to the music. I wasn’t sure what to do for this assignment, so I just browsed the net, and listened to a genre and allowed an idea to form. This is what I came up with. While I was making this, I was aware that despite all the war and chaos going in in the world, and missiles fired, people are making alot of money. Not just the US companies but British companies selling arms to Saudi Arabia.These companies aided y governments are allowed to sell weapons of destruction. It’s mad to be honest. You would think that government could stop war easily with the embargo of making and selling weapons.

I recommend you check out the documentary Sansara, and also Baraka (1992). It has some great artsy spritual footage without commentary. It gives a good look into humanity. BItter Lake, and Hypernormalisation are good documentaries to watch if you interested in how politics got to where it is today.

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This came out really clean and well-executed. Nice juxtaposition between music and visuals!

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Powerful visuals and a great way to introduce a heavy topic to the conversation of weapons through this project.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEqXn71XQSM)

Jabbercising Exercise #4

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too funny!!! haha

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Culture mix-up

zaxisthefinalfrontier

Very few things being as much pleasure to me as old aerobics videos! I like how you combined the milieus of two separate time periods: aerobics and dabbing. Great idea!

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Exercise #4 Music Video

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Cute!! They love the ice!

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Phantom of the Opera, meet Beyonce!

I’m so sorry for the SUPER late post but my husband surprised me by coming home on military leave and I’ll admit I completely forgot about all my other responsibilities. However, here is my music video for exercise 4.

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Awesome Video Paige. Really well done.

zaxisthefinalfrontier

Happy your husband came home! This is an ideal combination of song and imagery. I like how you incorporated the lighting effects in the transitions.