Intervention #2 Performance

Mathew Zurita

ART-263-1108

Professor. Cacoilo

November 13, 2023

Intervention #2 Performance - Like Father, Like Son

This photo was taken around the 1970's. It shows my father sitting on his desk in his classroom with other students. This is from a High School in Ecuador.  

This is me reenacting the photo of my dad sitting from his desk. (Silver Tone filter) 

This photo was taken around the late 1970's and it shows my father in the hallway from a college in Ecuador. I believe this was his freshman year in college as well. 

This is me reenacting the same pose from my dad's photo in the hallway. (Silver tone filter) 

This photo taken in 2001. It shows my father sitting in the middle of the couch. Along with my dad, my uncle is sitting on the left side and the neighbor from my uncle's house that lives upstairs, is sitting on the right side with my dad. This was during a family meeting with everyone having a good time and spending time together as a family. 

This is me and both my older brothers reenacting the photo with my dad, uncle and his neighbor. We tried to match the clothing to the best of our ability. (Dramatic cool filter)

(Vintage filter)

        For this second intervention project, I had to do a performance act with anything that I'm passionate about. The idea I came up with is reenacting the photos from my father. This means I have to try to have the same poses like my dad, similar clothing and have someone take the picture for me. Normally for this type of project, I have to upload a video with audio of my performance act. Instead, I will upload pictures from my performance and describe what's going on in each image. In addition, I'm also a photo major so this was a golden opportunity for me have photography involve for this intervention project. The reason I choose to have my father's photo's involved in this intervention is because my father was my type of role model that I looked up to for the longest time. After he passed away in April 4th, 2010, his death did affect me pretty deep when I was in 5th grade. Not just me but also my entire family. However, that doesn't mean that he's gone forever. His memories are still with us and he'll always be watching us from a special place, in which it is called heaven. I made a promise to myself one day that I will never forget about him and I will carry on his legacy as his son.

        The way I worked on this project is that I have to have assistance. My older brothers and my mother. The first photo with my dad in the classroom, I had to match his clothing that has mostly white in it, pair of jeans, notebook and a pencil. As for the pose, I needed to smile just like in the photo and match the same stance with my dad's arm and how he's holding the pencil. My brother helped me to take the picture and I handle with the filter that matches similar from the actual photo. For the second photo, I needed to be in a open space area. The photo shows my father in a hallway that has a window from the right side. He is also carrying a few books from his right hand as well. For the clothes, I had to wear a button up dress shirt, stone cargo pants, and white shoes. My dad seems to be wearing like a skinny jacket but I choose to wear a bomber jacket since I didn't have the same jacket like my dad had. The props I have to carry in my right hand is a notebook and a reading book, which was the "The Art of Activism". For the pose, I needed to act like I'm walking a bit with the books on my right hand and smile like my dad was doing in the original photo. My brother did help to take the picture as well. I used the same filter just like the first photo, which was the silver tone filter. The last photo I choose to do was with my dad, uncle and his neighbor from upstairs. For this photo, I needed both my brothers to help me. We needed to match the same outfits just like the three people in this photo. All I needed to wear is black t-shirt, jeans, and white shoes. My dad was wearing air maxes but I did not have a pair of air maxes. My older brother wore a grey sweater, olive pants and brown shoes. My other brother wore a brown button up shirt, jeans and black adidas shoes. The prop they used to carry in their hands is a can of soda. In the original photo, my uncle and his neighbor are holding beer cans so we used the soda cans to be very similar of what they were holding. For the poses and stances, I had to sit in the middle of the couch, my older brother sitting on the left side and my other brother sitting on the right side. We all had to match the leg and arm poses mostly. My mother volunteer to help take the picture for me while she instructs us on our poses and help us fix it. The filter I used is dramatic cool for the first image and vintage filter for the second image. I did this because I wasn't too sure which one was good or not so I uploaded both of them to ask the class which one is looks better.

        I would say my project has similarities with Yoko Ono's work.  Yoko Ono's art pioneered the ideas of feminism in artistic practice, and she dedicated her whole life to campaigning for world peace. Even though she was frequently criticized and even ostracized by the press and the public, she fought her way through all the hardships with her creativity and challenging artwork. The simplicity of her work may have been derided for years, but it is exactly that which makes it greatly accessible. In the article "Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter behind the Myth of her name" it says " 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." The “pre-Lennon” phase in Ono’s artworks encouraged a Zen-like dissolution of thought, and after she met the love of her life, she began shifting towards a greater campaign for peace, using not only galleries but the mass media as well. Both of them explored avant-garde art, music and film. It also stated "It soon became obvious that Lennon considered his relationship with Ono as the most important thing in his life, and their inseparability, combined with Ono’s influence over Lennon, would develop as a source of great tension among the Beatles, only to announce the coming of their last days as a band." Ono was heavily influence from her husbands, John Lennon, work and career. After he passed away, Ono never forgot about her husbands work and she still carried on his legacy till this day.

Work Cite:

Widewalls | Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist, and Fighter

 https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/yoko-ono-art-story