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Classics movie

I remember watching this film which is about making fun of old classic black and white none sounded movie. The texts has been changed in between scenes, for example, there would be one of the character speaking for a while in the scene, and the texts comes up with one word or a short sentence, Or something totally irrelevant (with the scene).

And also I remember seeing some of the famous movies (like star wars) has been remade, by redone the voice of each characters, Darth Vadar was saying "fuck" every five seconds, it was hilarious.

What is performance art installation

WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION

Performing art installation: Blurring the boundary is a necessity: There was a time when the industrial revolution reduced human ability to mere operations and now with the emergence of nano- tech, on one side, posing a big logical problem for the “presence of human existence” in material world by going zero size, where even the operations are also getting separated from human ability. At the same time, on the other side with technological innovations, tvs, cell phones, digital cameras, computers and printing are flooding us with millions of visual images and communication as big installed object. Under this circumstance, it is become very important for art to define its domain in clear perspective. Installations of monumental blow of up of microscopic world as a protest against nano culture, as it is being practiced, is becoming irrelevant, since it is very much part of the problem itself. It does not portray or protest the human condition. Now it is time that art as an idea or an exploration of possibilities to define its domain at a new dimension. Keeping this objective, a beginning has been made with a performing art installation “ burn door”, by Master program students, Faculty of arts and humanities, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Performing art installation is a selective mixture from both performance art and installation art . Performance art in a broader term tries to establish the existence of artist through time, space, artist and the relationship between performer and audience (human relation), while installation art explores the sensory experience of audience leaving space and time as dimensional constants (object relation). Keeping this ideological existence of performance art and installation art in defining human existence, furthering the idea to address the present day problem of human identity, this new form of art is developed as- performing art installation. Practice: Performing art installation Performance will be with” absentia” of performer, signifying the elimination of human race by technology even from the “operator” level while digital visual imaging gives the illusion of self importance ( wrapping up of the performer or deliberate elimination of “visibility” of performer’s body. No sound. No artificial lighting “Conceptual “placements of objects , time and space (in contrast to the idea of non conceptual objects in installation) Only open ended ideation, where possibilities are viewer’s prerogative Narendra Raghunath

"Physical Attraction"

"The Pills"

After I had a chat with Michelle about how to present "the pills", she suggested me to arrange the photos in a "time line", so when people walk pass, they will be able to see the changes.

In the group exhibition, I arrange the photos from the beginning to the end in a sequence on the wall, and it caught people's attention, and drawn them to look closer and enjoy the images.

Installation artist

"the Visible Body"

Glenn Herbert Davis

He is a installation artist who often works with photograph, lighting effect, plywood and performance.

Physical attraction take one!

I use thumb tack to stable the scratchy fabric onto my wardrobe, and filmed my performance (behind the white fabric, inside of my wardrobe). The whole process took about 4 hours, I've used my camera, laptop and video camera to document the performance.

Basically there are still life (pressing my body parts onto the "canvas", soft movements, aggressive movements and expression movements.

In the beginning, I've tested with cloths on, and I was not satisfy with the result which texture of the clothing was showing through the fabric. Next, I've took my cloth off and keep working on my performance, I was quite please with the result, my body structure was showing clearly through the "canvas", and the movements were translucent.

The next step I'm going to edit all my documented films, and put together a short video with sound effect (still in the planing process).

Video art work II

"Three by Three"

artist

Margeaux Walter
Im interested in this piece of work, but I haven't viewed the full version of it, I have sent a request to view this full video, and am waiting for them to get back to me.
I like the idea of using white as the main colour in this video piece, it accentuated the expression of the movement, in relation to clarify the emotion(idea) that the artist wanted present.

video art work

Trailer Truths I (2 min, 2004)

This is a very creative idea of using movie trailers texts, and put together as a piece of video art work.

"Trailer Truths I is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda.

The work playfully addresses the representation of power and language in the media, and the role of belief in the popular consciousness."

It sounds like almost making seance at a point, but the words (texts) kept going and they seems like leading the audience to another idea or story line.

relief sculpture

My work "physical attraction" has a strong influence from relief sculpture. And that was the way I plan to present my piece.

Randolphlee Mclver's piece "Woman, back view" October, 1996, Plaster relief.

I found that very similar to the effect of the image I have been working on.

Experiment

I took a series of photos base on my own body form, at first I was trying to work with the canvas, and take photos by pressing my body parts onto it, but it wasn't much of success, first, the canvas was too small, it was hard to press large parts of my body, second, the lighting effect wasn't working that way I planed. So I start taking photos of my body without the canvas, and there are a few that I really like, after edited in photoshop, I found the contrast of the light and dark, the bone structure are very interesting. At this point, I have no idea what to do with my idea towards this project, the canvas is not working, but I still want to stick to this idea of body parts, and body form.

cristian guerreschi

MONSTER

I was doing some research on video art for my physical attraction project, and i found this very interesting video which has nothing to do with my work. I like it because it looks simple and easy to make, which is not really, in stop motion animation, you have to narrow down the detail of your image in order to save time and have well budget towards your film. Even though, this animation was well made by the story context .

Documentation

Bas Jan Ader

Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader was last seen in 1975 when he took off in what would have been the smallest sailboat ever to cross the Atlantic. He left behind a small oeuvre, often using gravity as a medium, which more than 30 years after his disappearance at sea is more influential than ever before.

His work "Fall I" was very encouraging to me, as the way he puts himself into the work, took the physical risk for experimenting new subjectivities.

In image above, I found that the documentation method is very similar to my work "The pills".

interesting artist

Tal R

Medium: painting, drawing and sculpture, collage, assemblages, film, textile art

Artist’s Biography:

Tal R was born in Tel Aviv in 1967 and lives and works in Copenhagen. He began teaching a master class in painting at the Düsseldorf academy in 2005. Tal R has gained international recognition for his collages and playful combinations of styles and contexts which form a very idiosyncratic and complex pictorial language.

Artist’s Statement:

The abstract paintings Tal R creates have many stories to tell..Inspiration sources include elements of music, comic-strips aesthetics, television and the graphic design of old video games.

New idea for "The pills"

This idea just flash through my mind, the drug reference issue towards "The pills" is getting stronger. To work with that, I thought about taking another photo series of people, or just one person (like myself), document the effects by using drugs. Also by the meaning of "drugs", it doesn't necessarily need be the extacy, or any other kind of hardcore drugs, it could simply be medicine, or something that might cause effect on people.

I did some research on Dennis Oppenheim, and I have been drawn to his Body Art works, he took the physical risks by subjected himself into the works. I found that very encouraging toward my interest in performing art.

The pills - when the time pass by

The first taste of "Physical attraction"

Random thoughts

Why does everyone try to be as pretty as they can, what about the ugly? I'm not talking about the fashionable ugly, I'm talking about the raw, original, real ugly. The ugly side of human thoughts, the ugly monster hiding deep down within everyone's heart, the ugly desire of instinct.