Hi everyone! My name is Keira and I am a second year student in the Creative Arts, Health, and Wellness program! I am from Windsor Ontario and my favorite art form is painting. I chose this program as it is a balanced mix of my passions and academic interests. I plan on going to teacher’s college after I graduate! I am excited about this class as I love conceptual art and thinking outside the box. I can’t wait to see what my peers and I make.
Marina Abramovic: Discussion Questions
My first impression of Marina Abramovic was that she is perceived as a god in the art world. She makes it clear that her background and history are highly important to her work. Her performance art is intense, violent, and uncomfortable in a very unique way. It seems like the art is not for the audience- it is solely for her.
Through watching the documentary, I picked out many key features of performance art. Firstly, I noticed how the work can be very minimalist yet still speak volumes. It seems to be emotionally intense and focuses on the impact it leaves on the audience. Performance art cannot exist without an audience and the engagement of others is necessary.
This documentary displayed many ways in which performance art resists social convention. Firstly, it is uncomfortably human. Performance art can exist simply through flesh and bone. There is not specific idea of talent or technique as each work is unique. There is a huge emotional involvement of the audience and it has the ability to include person to person contact which is incredibly impactful.
Make a Kilometer
“a lonely six”
For this project, I took a 1km walk and took a picture of every tree I saw on my left. I was expecting quite a lot of trees, yet there were only 6 trees for the entire 1km stretch. This made me reflect on how many trees may have filled that 1km stretch 50, 100, or even 1000 years ago.
I wanted my documentation of 1km to be something aesthetically pleasing because I relate nature walks to calmness, simplicity, and refreshment. I wanted to evoke that feeling through my display. my only materials were paper, a canvas, and my pencils. I wanted to use only paper to keep it very closely related to the trees.
Tree Pics + Proof of kilometer
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