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