11/08 HW

 Khan Academy

1. "Following World War II, performance emerged as a useful way for artists to explore philosophical and psychological questions about human existence." 

Response: This goes to show society's impact on performance art, issues like the Holocaust and the Atomic bomb impacted how people communicated through art and made the experience a more physical and emotional connection. 

2. “Shifting attention from the art object to the artist’s action further suggested that art existed in real space and real time.”

Response: Viewing art from the artist's point of view allows you to step into someone else's world and connect to the artist. 

Yoko Ono

1. "She allowed her Japanese education and American artistic formation to merge into a new mindfulness."

Response: She allowed her life lessons and experiences to show through her art and made her known as a feminist activist.

2. "Her latest causes include campaigning for gun control and against fracking, her vision remains somewhat utopian and she still pursues the ideals which led her in the past."

Response: Even as a 78-year-old she is still being an activist in society and using her fame and influence to help campaign for gun control. 

Hispanic Executive 

1. "The act of experiencing a space, memory, or feeling is simultaneously an opportunity to reflect, meditate, and explore."

Response: This quote emphasizes that our interaction with the world, and our past allows us numerous opportunities for self-reflection and growth.

2. "It was in the mentality of striving for the best that I was also taught that success meant economic stability and mobility."

Response: This quote emphasizes the importance of both personal excellence and financial success as two connected aspects of a fulfilling life, reflecting the values and expectations of their cultural or familial environment.

"Cut Piece" From Yoko Ono 

In this project Yoko Ono allowed members of the audience to cut off pieces of her clothing until she was naked. "Cut Piece" was one of the best examples where the visceral presence of the author confronted the tension between exhibitionism and voyeurism, masochism and sadism, between victim and assailant. The piece was lauded as an enactment of women's physical vulnerability in a world where they are reduced to objects for looking at. This groundbreaking artwork is hailed as prophetic of feminist activism and of performance art as a form. Yoko Ono first performed this in Kyoto, Japan in 1964 and later in New York City in 1965.