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Professor. Cacoilo
October 31, 2023
Chapter 3: History
"In our workshops, when we reach the history section we like to start with the example of Jesus (we have lessons on Moses and Muhammad too)."
I found it interesting that they bring up Jesus of Nazareth and not Jesus Christ himself. Jesus of Nazareth was an activist and organizer. Judging by the two thousand year lifespan, he was able to spread his global message and movement and just like other great religious leaders like the Buddha, Moses, and Mohammed, Jesus was successful, in part, because he approached activism and organizing.
"The Tea Party worked on both symbolic and practical levels."
The Tea Party is a perfect example for history because not only did the dumping of the tea demonstrate visually the colonists protest against the Tea Act, buy by the destroying the tea, they were denying profits to the quasi-governmental East India Company and the ability of the British Government to tax the imports. The activists also understood the power of politics as performance as well.
"Over the past one hundred years, feminist movements have transformed the political, legal, and social status of women in many parts of the world."
I believe that feminism changed or impacted U.S history. Feminism succeeded in radically redefining what we mean by politics itself. The range of accomplishments that can be attributed to feminism are impressive. However, it is important to note that this is not a singular movement proper to any one place or time, but multiple different movements that continue to evolve.
Khan Academy Performance Art: An Introduction
"Mid-1950s Tokyo art-going audiences were accustomed to styles of painting promoted by the art academies, institutionalized artist associations, and art critics including surrealism, modernist abstraction, and proletarian arts, so they were unprepared for the genre-upending, aesthetic violence of Shiraga’s performance."
I think that Tokyo art around the 1950s is impressive and outstanding in my opinion. For example, a photograph shown in the site, which is called "Challenging Mud", shows a pile of mud bearing an array of marks, indentations, cavities, and smears that sits at the center of a gravel field shot from a birds-eye view. In addition, it shows a man that is fully clothed in a casual suit, stands at left with hands behind him, head turned to directly face the camera following the convention of photographing painters next to their finished canvases. This was also posted by Shiraga Fujiko and Hisao and the former members of the Gutai Art Association too.
"Sit silently with the artist for a duration of your choosing"—so the instructions read on a small plaque in the second-floor atrium at The Museum of Modern Art."
This type of experiment or intervention seems to interest a lot of people in the museum. Once you enter the square and approach the table, you immediately note the heat of the lights and the watchful eyes of the crowds gathered to gawk at the spectacle. You take a seat and while Marina leans forward, you settle into the chair and imagine for about ten minutes before you become either bored or totally uncomfortable. Marina will then begin to sit up and you'll try to prepare yourself for the moment she opens her eyes. It's a very interesting performance art that I would try out myself as well.
Widewalls | Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter
"It would be fair to say that John Lennon influenced Ono as much as Ono influenced Lennon, in some ways that improved and progressed both of their careers."
I can also agree that John Lennon greatly influenced Ono’s career the most because the "Pre-Lennon" phase in Ono's artworks encouraged a Zen-like dissolution of thought. After Ono met the love of her life, she began shifting towards greater campaign for peace. Using not only just galleries but also the mass media as well.
"Yoko Ono has been, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood artists in the past 60 years."
Not only Yoko Ono is the most misunderstood artists but she is a remarkable Japanese artists in the world. Ono's massive fame, association with the Beatles, and heal-the-world rhetoric that have obscured her groundbreaking contributions to the world of art of the 1960s and beyond. Ono's wide-ranging artistic expression encompasses film, sculpture, text, performance, music and artwork. Although eclectic in nature, her work has been often greeted with incomprehension, mockery and even rage. Her own work has always been an indivisible element of her activism and life-long mission of communicating with the world at large. Despite having hostile responses, Ono has won the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Observer Ethical Awards for her activism lasting over half a century.
Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
"I attribute my work ethic to them. However, it was in the mentality of striving for the best that I was also taught that success meant economic stability and mobility. And so art wasn’t really within my vision as a child: I never quite know what inspired me, other than the moments where I did see and take in art."
I do like how Shaun Leonardo tries his best to work with ethic in his work. Especially when it comes to his countries religion. For example, his work call "Battle Royal" that was taken in October 03, 2009 in Toronto, Canada, shows a whole mexican wrestlers inside a cage that is surrounding the ring. I do enjoy this work mostly because I do watch wrestling as well and it's very entertaining.
"Yes. I offer that narrative with the recognition that, over my life and professional career, I have witnessed young people be easily derailed when they don’t see themselves in the representation of who is creating."
A good example from this quote is from the work "El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man: The Steel Cage Match (performance), 45 minutes at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 4/15/06 and 4/29/06." Photo by Ricky Auyeung. Both wrestlers want to show their representation and dominance in the ring because it's their goal and dreams to be part of the wrestling community.
Project from reading: The Crossing
The project I chose is from reading Khan Academy, Performance Art an Introduction, is Bill Viola's work "The Crossing, 1996." Bill Viola’s "The Crossing" is a room-sized video installation that comprises a large two-sided screen onto which a pair of video sequences is simultaneously projected. It states "They each open in the same fashion: a male figure walks slowly towards the camera, his body dramatically lit from above so that it appears to glow against the video’s stark-black background." After several minutes he pauses near the foreground and stands still. He faces forward, staring directly into the lens, motionless. The Crossing makes use of Viola’s signature manipulation of filmic time. It says in the article "Like many of the artist’s recent works, it was shot using high-speed film capable of registering 300 frames per second, thus attaining a much greater level of detail than would be discerned by the naked eye." In post productions, Viola reduces the speed of playback to an extreme slow motion, further enhancing the level of definition to a dramatic and scrutinizing effect. She uses great skills of technology in this film and it captures many of the audience attention from this particular scene.
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