I know I haven't written much in the journal blog vs the google doc that I started sharing and using other peoples' thoughts upon the presentations, projects and videos we have been seeing in class. I think though that I will probably pause on the google doc for now and refocus back on the blog to speak my thoughts into text.
Now into Week 10.
At this moment, while class is starting and in session I am compressing my phenomenal experiment video because I figured it's way too big (12 GB) for transferring to the main mac where Marc can check the videos out...
Video: Vito ACCONCI - Prying
Guy trying to open the eyes of a woman. However, the woman is resisting the power of the man. Looking back in the past, women were seen less compared to now. Showing resistance, the woman shows how she can be in control as she looks calmer compared to the man. The man is just using so much physical force it personally for me makes me feel some pity for the man rather than the woman. Perhaps, this somewhat shows the history of what woman have gone through before the feminist movement came to life. They have been resisting, shows it is not pointless to go against the way of what was culturally seen because it shows how hard men would have to try to gain control over (what they see women as, aka objects).
No voice were used in this performance as well. Neither male or female spoke to show the struggle they are having to either pry open the eyes or to keep the eyes shut. At the same time, neither used their voice to show resistance or to overpower to other. There is an quality here that somewhat shows between the male and female as neither of them use their voices to have more control. The way the artist filmed too was important because if it was focused more on the man than woman then it would actually feel like the woman has less power. The focus emphasizes the gender's power rather than struggle, and within the past and probably even now it would make more sense to focus it on the female since it still happens now.
Video: Martha ROSLER - Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure
Probably a video that didn't interest me as much or maybe I just didn't understand too well about what it was about. All I have is that it's about graffiti within San Francisco. Of course not just about that, but how it is being seen with other people and other artists. About society, how we view each other, what represents the place (like Toronto has graffiti walls as well that are remade or made for an actual graffiti festival), the race of humans expressed (especially in the video shown as it showed stories? Pictures?) some sort of meaning.
Random notes I took during this time:
- How is art seen within the society?
- Make art that could actively resist to some big meaning...
- With capitalism expanding, in some ways it lessens our ways of creating or spreading art even within the digital world
- Such as copyrights, creative commons, etc.
Phenomenal Experiments (P.E): John Lilly
- filming someone painting
- there's a subjective/bias feel from the camera even though you are trying to view someone making a piece of art
- the person behind the camera is a piece of art as well?
- adjusting focus, frames, etc.
- I understand what the artist (him and not his sister) is trying to do and does take away the idea of how it is subjective on the painter. The motion or adjustment one makes with the camera, it becomes more about the filmer than the filmist (if that made any sense whatsoever)
P.E: Adam Brandon
- filming the area of his house?
- same atmospheric noise, sounds like something is hovering
- Shows the history/past of the artist through the awards/certificates
- noise in the background (most of the time), oh and right at this moment he films outside
- Perhaps the everyday life of this artist? The kitchen, the living room, tv, outside...
- a shot was filmed right by the window where it showed a reflection of the inner area, a space that composited of both the outer and inner vicinity. Creating extra space, or to dream/hope to have that space?
- Looks like a surveillance camera during partway too...
- losing track of space
P.E: Romaine Loftman
*will be filled out when I get home*
P.E: Stefania Medryk
- filming herself (directed at her face) drawing/sketching
- distracted by people around her even though she secluded herself within her own world already with music in her head
- two performances at the same time
- distress shown through several moments during the two performances collide each other in real time
- hard to see emotions shown through facial expression as he head is down
- some body/head motion is made though that shows distress (slouching back, looking to the side, away from her sketches)
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