Nellie: Last Day

Though today was fun and we learned some pretty cool things, I am kinda sad that it is over. I loved getting to know you guys, and hopefully I will see you around. Best wishes to you all.
                                                                                               -Nellie :]

P.S.
Thank you Alan for guiding us through this journey
and getting us to perform at our best.

Shamera- Sanctified Piece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGqyZSs9xYg&feature=fvw
 I like this piece alot because there is music

Shamera- Cut my hair Yeah Right!!!!!!!

Cool Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0WZLN00VLs

Shamera- Alison Knowles

http://www.aknowles.com/

Alison Knowles is a Performance artist that we discusses yesterday she is very creative she takes very simple acts to convey and depper meaning in her work and she has been doing visual art for a very long amount of time. See her website in the link above to get a visual of her creativity

Nellie: Dan Dunn

THIS IS FREAKIN' AMAZING!!!!

Nellie: Top 4 Things We Learned about in Class

1) Liminality: rites of passage, games, rituals
2)Performativity: speech acts, iteration-->make something happen with what you say
      ex) "I do", "I bet"
       ITERATION: roles, attitudes of different roles being played
3) Social Art: relational easthetics, participatory culture
     -ex) Sally Wlaker camp girls piece
      . audence becomes the producer
      RELATIONAL AESTHETICS: people interact with architecture and how they interact with the 
      architecture
      PARTICIPATORY CULTURE: how people get together and interact
         ex) Facebook
4)Embodiment: intersubjecivity
 -the world is not "there", but in your head where you see it, which is from your senses
"All light comes from within."
-we are creating the world through what we know and how we perceive it.
-I'M A SUBJECT ABD OU ARE A SUBJECT, + HOW WE INTERACT =INTERSUBJECTIVITY.

Nellie: Other Notes

Architecture creates the program

example) the shape of a heart
Function=circulation
it is also a symbollic structure, love, etc.


FORM-->METAPHOR-->MEANING

A heart pumps blood,--> creating circulation
                                       -->circle-->circle of life

When you find the metaphor to the form, you have poetry
    FORM-->METAPHOR-->MEANING-->POETRY

Nellie: Class Notes on Modes and Audience

This is basically what we talked about in class- 1/13/11

MODES                                AUDIENCE
dance                                
lecture                                        Students
chant                                               fans
musical theatre
demonstration                            consumers
concert                                              fans
narrative
sermon                                   congregation
story
celebration                               party goers
campaign
speech                                   constituants/ "The People"
wedding                                 family, friends, witnessess
spoken word                                     beatniks
poetry reading                            other poets
talk show
puppet show                                  children
stand-up
vocal recital
funeral
game show                   participants, studio audeince
fundraiser                                          donors

Nellie: Notes on Shamanism

Sha= to know
Shaman is someone who knows, they interract with the spirit world and other worldly forces. Sometimes they guide a person and cure then of their ailments.

there are three phases
 1)preporation phase
 2) experience/ lininal
 3) processing phase
in every phase there is a differen degree of consciousness that is experienced.

Science vs. Anthropology
Science just looks at the world through observable facts
Anthropology looks at waht science throws away, views all the inbetween areas/phases

Another idea that was presented was that everything has a soul.

Lately, personal totems was talked about. Totems choose you, so what is your totem?

NICOLE: experience w/ class performance.

When we had been discussing the performance and the gallery, I thought it was going to be a group effort to accomplish only one of the creative ideas that the class introduced.. In my opinion, I really liked the idea of the fake robbery.. but in my head, it was like the performance where the guy had stuck his head in the tank of water and the audience could hear it, but they were watching it from a screen.. So, there would've been like a setup of our class or something being robbed or like some kind of fake columbine going on and being shown on a screen to the audience where they could hear the shooting happening and see if they would come to our aid or something. Anyways, once I found out that we were just going to do an eclectic grouping of all the groups' ideas, I was skeptical at first because I was afraid it would be sloppy or confusing for people.. In the end though, all the different messages collided and became one piece in a more flowy way than I had anticipated and it was successful in the end. The only thing I would have changed would be that there would be a more defined ending.

NICOLE: experience w/ class performance.

When we had been discussing the performance and the gallery, I thought it was going to be a group effort to accomplish only one of the creative ideas that the class introduced.. In my opinion, I really liked the idea of the fake robbery.. but in my head, it was like the performance where the guy had stuck his head in the tank of water and the audience could hear it, but they were watching it from a screen.. So, there would've been like a setup of our class or something being robbed or like some kind of fake columbine going on and being shown on a screen to the audience where they could hear the shooting happening and see if they would come to our aid or something. Anyways, once I found out that we were just going to do an eclectic grouping of all the groups' ideas, I was skeptical at first because I was afraid it would be sloppy or confusing for people.. In the end though, all the different messages collided and became one piece in a more flowy way than I had anticipated and it was successful in the end. The only thing I would have changed would be that there would be a more defined ending.

karina. jonathan keats

karina. pics of Jonathon keats

these are pics of his art "Divine Taxonomy" where he tries to engineer God.

karina.notes chp 4

Fairs and circuses

• Music booths
• Music halls, cabarets, vaudevilles, and café concerts include rope dancing and  tumbling.
• Offered variety of performances in a series of acts vocal and instrumental music.
• Traditional performance of the circus such as clowns, acrobatics, and added other performance activities like historical re-enactments of famous battles.

Cabaret: Avant-garde performance activity

• Drew upon the public love of such physical and visual theatricality to develop another center for performance activity that would in turn inspire major innovators in the modern drama
• Most exciting performance art in the twentieth century

karina-Notes on Chapter 4

Surrealism (Andre Breton) early twentieth-century artistic movement, strongly influenced by Freud, which looked to the unconscious as the grounding of imaginative work.

• Musical performance and poetry reading
• Spontaneous creative activity
• Creating collages of paper by allowing scraps of paper fall randomly on the floor

Futurism (Filippo Marinetti) Avant-garde artistic movement of the early twentieth century which emphasized change, speed, technical progress, and the rejection of traditional art forms

Known for its manifestos than for its actual artistic achievements

General shift in modern artistic interest, turning painters and sculptures into  performance art

Were often frankly, arousing public outrage causing scandals

Nicole: Inside Art: My Barbarian

NICOLLLLLLLE :D

ummm soo idk if this is relevant to the group at all! but.. i changed my essay topic like RIGHT NOW.
ummm nancy barber is too difficult to find on google since theres like a million other people named nancy barber apparently.. SOOOOOO...

NEW MAN:

----> ALEXANDER BRENER


he is mostly known for basically defacing contemporary art, i guess, he relieved himself in front of Van Goh's paintings.. and got arrested for spray painting a dollar sign on someone elses painting in Russia to show how the people were taking advantage of art and using it for selfish things.. and he also has sex in public as an art display.

i just thought he was really interesting, if you wanted to look him up or look up his work :D

karina. Reflection of the class

The performance on Friday at the Harris Gallery was a success. For me, I was nervous at first, but it was not my first time performing. From the skits my group performed, which were five,  only two of them I felt uncomfortable which were the Recession Stories and Oppresion. For the Recession Stories I wrote down my true story of how I became a teenage mother and I don't mind sharing but it is always a sensitive subject to me. On the other hand, for Oppresion I was put in the shoes of the antagonist of the skit. I was the one who tied up Nellie and had to tell her all this mean stuff because that was my character. In reality I am friendly and it took guts for me to yell that to her in such a mean attitude but it was for the best of the performance.

As for the class, I have taken drama before but this was different. In this class not only did I learn that I am suppose to put myself in situations that I am not use to. For example, all the times in class that we were suppose to use improv and have a matter of seconds to come up with a small skit/performance. This class taught me to be more creative and sponteneous. Especially from Leaf's advice, you can do anything. He lived in the forest for a few years and learned the ways of the forest, so anything is possible. Lastly, having this class I thought I would just be performing but having to read the books and looking into the history of performing and theatre, where it all came from and how it developed over the years. It was very interesting to learn that anything can be art, it happens in our everyday life.

karina. martha wilson

karina. martha wilson

karina. Last Performance

Todays performance of the interviews I was portraying Martha Wilson. Her character was very interesting and unique. I admired her. The part from her childhood that caught my attention was the part that as a baby she was raised in the Skinner Box. The Skinner Box was a way to control a baby's environment and behavior. Due to the Skinner Box, Martha Wilson was able to shut things off her mind. For example, she could pretend the world was empty and no one in it only her, alone. From the Skinner Box, she became a Visual Artist because that was the only sense she could use while being in the box. Her art is expressed by what she feels and what she knows.

Lizeth: Multiculturalism & Epistemic Rupture article

Multiculturalism is considered to be the latest reincarnation of the similationist and little attention has been paid to the epistemological framework that has made it. Multiculturalism sometimes gives distance, contain, and control. Usually culture is seen in different ways like race, class, religion and gender as well. Cultural diversity is described by Guillermo Gomez-Pena as "knowlegeable" authorative, and adequate to construction.

Lizeth . Twilight

After watching the movie Twilight, I thought that Anna Deavere Smith was an incredible perfomer and the way she performed everything, it really spoke out. I thought that the way she performed helped understand more what had happened with everyone and it created a great communication. It really made power and race be bold to the movie and to keep it in mind while she was performing many different conversations. To my understandings of what I saw in the movie, the film was about race, class, people with rage and people with fear and people who wanted to make a justice. I very much enjoyed the film, it brought to my attention how unjust people can be.

Lizeth: Notes on Chapter 1

The Seven Theories on Theatre & Social Sceinces
1. Performance in everyday life, including gatherings of every kind.
2. The structure of sports, ritual, play, and public political behavior.
3. Analysis of various modes of communication; semiotics
4. Connections between human and animal behavior patterns with an emphasis on play and ritualized behavior.
5. Aspects of psychotherapy that emphasize person-to-person interaction, acting out, and body awareness.
6. Ethnographhy and prehistory- of both exotic and familiar cultures.
7. Constitution of unified theories of performance, which are, in fact, theories of behavior.

Performance is observed by anthropologists and sociologists and it is analyzed by different theories that are listed at the top. In the 1960's and 1970's anthropologists became more of an interest to theatre and performance. Turner brought up the terms liminoid and liminal and Turner considered liminal activities to be "anti-structure". He considered Liminoid to be  defined as much more limited and better structured that liminal. Performance is seen differently, from a social or psychological perspective, but it is equally important.

Lizeth: Performance 1.21.2011

Before performing at the Harris Gallery in School on Friday, I felt somewhat nervous but since we did practice a few times and we had been performing different things, I felt comfortable the day of the actual performance especially since I knew that the stuff we did was not real. I didn't feel uncomfortable with any of the performances that I participated in or that were performed by other group. Although I haven't taken any type of performing classes I did know a little from my art class and I did do some acting in my debate class my senior year so I was comfortable with everything.

CHAPTER 6 :D

IHAB HASSAN :)
-"The Dismemberment of Opheus: Towards a Postmodern Literature"
-Pataphysics & Dadaism: representatives of postmodernism
-"postmodernism veers toward open, playful, opative, disjunctive, displaced, or indeterminate forms, a discourse of fragments, an ideology of fracture, a will to unmaking, an invocation of silence--- veers toward all these and yet implies their very opposition, their anitithecal realities."
THOMAS LEABHEART (:
-Modern and Post-Modern Mime
-Leonard Pitt----> "began as a pure modernist and.. discovered his own post-modernism"
-POST-MODERNISM---> "its multipllicity, its eclecticism, its non-linearity & its juxtaposition of desperate elements to form a resonant whole
CLEMENT GREENBERG, MICHEAL FRIED, & MODERNISM :)
- theoreticians & practitioners were..associated with the art world...dominated by theoretical interestes of minimalism and high modernism.
-stage presence.. as such is antithetical to the essential minimalism project--rejects the situation with a viewer

Lizeth .

So today I interviewed Martha Wilson and it seemed very interesting what she mentioned about being inside a skinner box as a child for two years. It must have been a difficult experience to have gone through at such a earlly age especially since she did mention that it might have affected her in the way that she became isolated. It's that Martha see's this in a positive way of being able to block out anything she wants to avoid. I really enjoyed interviewing Martha Wilson, it was a great experience.

Janet: 1-21-11 Performance

With performing on 1-21-11 in the Harris Gallery at school; the way I felt with being vulnerable was comfortable with me, since we had practiced the performance a couple times. I didn't take any of the actions serious because I know everyone was acting. Before the performance started, I was a little nervous simply because I've never performed in front of an audience before; it was all very new to me. 

Lizeth .

so this image is a creation of Julia Heywards a known artist and with the image she is telling a life story from the point of view of Jesusm mom, and alien. It seems interesting.

Karina-Notes on Chapter 2

Social Roles (Nikolas Evreinoff)

In this text it mentions how men are "superior" than women. The quote by Evreinoff "Man became first an actor, a player and then came religion", and "the social "roles" of such representative figures as politicians, bankers, businessmen, priest, and doctors" show that men were the important people in the society while women were not even included, as they did not take part in. In every occupation it had to be given to the men while the women were their slaves at home, that was back in the day, 1970's. Now in the present you see more women in every occupation from Police Officers to serving in the Air Force/ Marines. One thing for sure is that there is always going to be that thin line between men and woman, there is always something that will set them apart.

Dramatism (Kenneth Burke)

Dramatism: The analytical study of the strageties by which individuals attempt to influence by their actions the opinions or actions of others. According to Burke, dramatism is a variety of social interactions and cultural behavior.

The 5 keys to dramatism is: 

1. How (which creates the Agency)
2. What (which creates the Act)
3. When and Where (which creates the Scene)
4. Why (which creates the Purpose)

As you can see these five keys put together create the play and not only that but this happen in our everyday life.

Role Playing (Erving Goffman)

Certain type of behavior fits in both presentation and role playing. Goffman stresses that both of those terms suggest the initiative of a subject, "the fact that certain behavior has an audience and has an effect on that audience." When I was reading this it reminded me of that one time in class we were suppose to get into groups and come up with a shape and do a skit (role playing) or presentation. One presentation that I remember was the one with the Signs(Arrows). The group did a effect and cause presentation of having signs/arrows in our society and not having them. My group did the shape of a shoe, Cinderella, the glass slipper fit her and she decides her destiny. Moreover, these two groups are an example of presentation(Signs) and role playing (Cinderella).

Karina, My Recession Story

This was my story for the performance on Friday.

During the recession a lot of jobs were being cut but my parents got lucky and kept their jobs, only they had to work double shift. That left me more time with my boyfriend, we had unprotected sex and lead to an unplanned pregnancy. I was only seventeen, a senior in high school. I had to sacrifice my teenage life to become a responsible single mother. My parents didn’t support me, they were always at work. At five months I received the news that my daughter would be born with Down Syndrome and soon after my health care was taken away from me, because they were cutting that too. I was terrified and stressed. I had no idea what to do, I just prayed to God. On Thanksgiving I gave birth to my daughter who was healthy and it was covered by my health care that was given to me two weeks before. This is how..
  LIFE PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE

Nellie: The Universe According to Me

Today towards the end of class Alan talked about how the universe exists in our heads. This got me thinking of how I view the universe un my head. One can try to break down everything in the universe into categories, such as plants, animals, humans, water, organisms, etc., but I found that list never really ends. So instead of trying to decipher the whole universe from what i make of it in my head I am going to post some of my paintings. See, I belive that whatever ends up in my paintings are the best representaation of what I think, and how I interpret my environment  (and everything in it). This being so, somehow how have created the universe in my mind end up on canvas.  Does that make sense? What I am trying to say is that if the universe exists in your head/mind/brain, and what I paint/draw comes from the same place, then how I define the universe comes accross through my paintings. Ahh, that is still too long. What I paint is how I see the world/ univers. This is what I mean, just look below,this is the world according to me.

My Mom actually let me paint on the wall!

People are just many circles put together.

Yes, I painted this:] (8 hours of my life)

 All of the art shown was done by Nellie A. Ruiz.

Janet: Handouts

Twilight: When I saw this movie Twilight LA, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I don't know how people could ever act like that. I don't like to watch / see things like that. I thought it was very sad what had happen to Rodney King, and to the other man who got pulled out of his truck and beat in the middle of the street. The way the people acted back then in 1992 is what gives them and LA a bad name. Since a Korean women shot an African American girl; I believe that is why 90% of their business's got destroyed. I liked how Anna Deavere Smith was able to act as different people. She transitioned the roles very well. I believe she is very talented. 


A Savage Performance: Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Coco Fusco's "Couple in the Cage" performance occurred in 1992. They had decided to put the viewer back into the frame of discovery. They started their Guatinaui World Tour as a sardonic response to the celebrations of the quincentennial. Their plan was to live in a golden cage for three days. They performed sewing voodoo dolls, lifting weights, watching t.v, and working on a laptop. They took donations (one dollar), Fusco would dance to rap music, Guillermo would tell Armerindian stories in a nonsensical language. They would also pose for polaroids with visitors. Two "zoo guards" would be in their hands so they could communicate to the visitors since they couldn't understand them. The visitors would take them to the restroom on leashes, and they would feed them sandwiches and fruit. At the Whitney Museum in New York they added sex to their performance; adding a peek for $5 so people could see their genitals. 


Multiculturalism and Epistemic Rupture: The vanishing Acts of Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Alfredo Vea Jr. Cultural diversity is an epistemological object- culture as an object of empirical knowledge- whereas cultural difference  is the process of the enunciation of culture as "knowledgeable" authoritative, adequate to the construction of systems of cultural identification. If cultural diversity is a category of comparative ethics, aesthetics or ethnology, cultural difference is a progress of signification. (Location 34) 

Janet: Videos on Vanessa Beecroft

I used this video to comment on in my essay. This is one of Vanessa Beecroft's performances in 2007. 

I also used this as another video to comment on in my essay. This occurred on March 16, 2009. 

Nellie: 1/21/2011

Nellie: Oppression Shirt 1/21/2011

I was really shocked that people were actually writing down nice things (gasp!), that gives me hope :]