Performance Art

So for my performance art piece i decided to try and give the public a soundtrack to what they were doing. I've always loved music, and i'm always listening to it, normally i fit it to my mood or what i'm doing. I followed joggers, walkers, people shopping, and people sitting! I chose songs i would imagine myself listening to doing these things. I had a lot of mixed reactions, sometimes people loved it! Sometimes people sped off away from me. But mostly, and most interestingly, people didnt react at all. I found this fascinating, a lot of the time I was very close, almost uncomfortable so (at least for an English person!) but yet they still did not react! People looked at me a lot, which is something you cannot necessarily see in the film, because they are careful not to turn their heads. I think this shows that people are either scared to react, because they don't know how to, or they simply are used to things like this. Nowadays increasing amounts of people walk around playing music off of their phones, so at times I felt like people were mainly reacting to the louder volume of mine. I got a few reactions also when I just played the 'soundtrack' to what i was doing.
I found this really interesting to do, and if i was to do it again I would perhaps target more runners. Also I would try to get the courage to do it on campus where I feel it might have been less ignored!

Colossal

I've been on colossal for a few hours now, it's definitely one of the best time wasters! and in searching performance i found this video http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/06/the-time-you-have-in-jelly-beans/

this is my favourite i've seen so far. I'm not completely sure why, probably just because its a really interesting way to display a really powerful message. There's something sort of eery about seeing your life in beans!

I just watched this interview about performance art with Marina Abramovic, i couldnt make it load using youtube, so heres the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_CMzjLGGaM
I found it very interesting. She talks about how she did not realize herself to be a performance artist to start with, she was a painter, then realised she was using her body in many ways, making her a performance artist. She then goes on to discus some of the things she has done and the messages of them, such as eating an Onion and discussing her dislikes, and making relevance of the layers.

So in my search for different performance art pieces I was looking at the work of Marina Abramovic, and stumbled upon her piece Balkan Erotic Epic. I made my roommate watch it with me..It was definitely something different. I mean I never actually finished watching it, mostly because we were either in shock or giggling too much. It was an interesting piece, especially some of the things she said the Balkans did, and it was definitely very memorable, but i don't think i'll be watching that one again!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIN8Cm5rYXY&bpctr=1384408228

Our Last Project

I am actually really happy with how my last project went, it turned out almost exactly how i'd planned, but even better. I had never made the link that my project would not even be able to exist without me holding it. I had the original link that the instrument did not play without me, but I did not make this deeper connection myself originally, this really connected it with the surrealist movement. This is how it turned out!

Not being sick would make my life so much easier..almost threw up in michaels..oops!

Photocopy project

So im not sure why i didnt think about the fact paper flops over. Off to buy so cardboard to back the paper!

Photocopying your face in the library receives really weird looks. Laughing loudly about how they come out receives annoyed looks. That is all

I've been MIA for a while again..I've had a migraine for a few days so avoided technology, but about a week ago I watched a VHS! An actual VHS! For some unknown reason a guy who lives down the hall from me had a VHS player and we watched beauty and the beast! I have to say it reminded me more of my childhood that any Disney movie has for a few years, probably because of the quality! We even had to rewind it before we could play it!
Today I decided to come out of my migraine hole and get some painting done I had to do..I knocked paint over on my photocopies..back to the photocopier I go! I think I'm the clumsiest person I know..