Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Performance Art Piece: Extra Eye

I decided that technology to me means an eye on others, a way of watching and remembering what goes on around me. I find myself also watching and waiting for reactions. SO I decided to take my cray to a place that knows it all too well, the crew team. And they acted just as I wanted. It is interesting to see how an "Extra Eye" changes people...


Monday, November 26, 2012

Joseph Beuys, Whats Happening?!

Joseph Beuys is a happening artist from Germany, but that is just what he is best known for. He is also a renowned installation artists, graphic artist, and a much respected art theorist. He is probably best know for his work with the "Spiritual world." Now I am not to say there is or there is one, but Beuys was a very firm believer that these spirits existed and interacted with them often.

Beuys art is very well known because of its high impacts on society because no one knew what to do. He once lived in a room with a coyote. Now this is A WILD ANIMAL...LIVINGGGG IN THE SAME ROOM. Sounds strange, and it is. But Joseph whole heartedly believed that happenings such as these placed him closer to these worlds of spirits and animal contact. They gave him a sense of comfort and peace becasue he was able to in his mind connect. And its good because he didn't always connect with everyday people.

Joseph Beuys: CoyoteThe Coyote example, imparticular, exemplifies this. He could have been attacked and killed at any moment durig these days that they spent together. And there were times the coyote got frisky. But by the end, it almost appeared as though it was man and his best friend because they had seemingly grown to trust and ignore eachother. They did no need or want the other, but there was no need to cause arm or conflict for them. Very weird concept.

He did many more art performances, not exactly this extreme, but many like it. He is also seen dawning a blanket around from time to time, which is a well known signature.

Monday, November 12, 2012

The Red Scare

Joseph McCarthy was a Wisconsin Senator from the 1950's that led one of the largest attacks on communism in America. However, his tactics and the outcomes turned out to be rather questionable
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Leading the search from 1950 to 1954, McCarthy accused hundreds of treason, selling secrets to the then Soviet Union, and all of this was done without proper evidence. Many people were placed on black list and reputations ruined because no one wanted to associate with a communist. He used this tactic to destroy many political careers (interesting as he was a senator trying to win votes) and also ruined artists lives because they were never able to find jobs again.  All of this seems rather interesting that people continually followed, seeing as Joseph was a DRUNK! Homeboy was sippin' gin and juice like it was his job, in between spouts of communist accusations. So it can never really be clear if he actually believed this, or if his drunk ass was just hungover and pissed off at people..or just drunk and pissed off at people.

Regardless this was silenced by the US Senate towards the end of his political stent. They found that he was crazy and has no base to accuse people of this. HE later died of hepatitis and liver problems...believed from his heavy drinking.

Still the story continues after his death. Investigations were conducted because treason is not taken lightly in the US.. especially during the cold war. And the government found that this crazy drunk had some actually results. there were people selling secrets to the Soviets...although most of them were not the accused, and often had cried wolf during the red scare. So overall, he had a great idea to accuse people and find them guilty...he just did not have any evidence. YOLO



Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Dream Master

Brion Gysin was an artist of the 20th Century and was very active in all aspects of art during his stent starting in the 60s. He was an artist on the radio, in the movies, painting, writting, and even performance arts.

Best known for his invention of the Dream Machine. This thing was crazzyyyy. Essentially it was this light that was cut with squares or shapes in it to create a moving light. The piece is viewed by closing your eyes and then letting the piece take control. It starts to create an almost drug like trance to your brain, by stimulating the optic nerve.

The "hallucinations"get really intense and they turn into swirling colors and shapes. However, this is simply corrected by opening ones eyes.

Although Gysin was such an avid artist in the creative realms outside of paint, his heart belonged to the canvas as he loved to paint and draw. His works we modeled after the scripts from the Arabic and Japanese languages.

Super-Mobile

With this project I took the time to really figure out a good plan of attack and wanted to see this work embody something I've always wanted to do. I figured that if I'm going to be recreating my body, why not fulfill a dream and be awesome. SO IMMEDIATELY flying came to mind and I was determined to make myself fly in this project.

I started with the idea:


A red cape flying through the air. then I had to get the supplies by photo copying almost every part of my body to get a complete sculpture of myself.

With these I then began to construct myself in a way that I know I could fly.



THEN: I started to take to the skies and fly!!




I accidentally left part of myself behind..
 I soon began to tighten everything up







Then my whole body took flight and I was off saving the day!!!