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.
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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.
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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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Create a FIELD TRIP blog post illustrating, describing and responding to two art works.
How are these works relevant to your own research interests and practice?
I was really interested into this entire series of works, but this one “Lifeform #98” connected to me the most out of all of them. Firstly, I am a big fan of using words and poems in visual art as I think it is effective to use two different languages to share a message through your work. Secondly, this words themselves “it was fun while it lasted” stuck out to me as I am someone who dwells on nostalgia a lot and the idea that once something is done and over, the only thing we are left with is a memory.
The moving rocks were really stand-out to me because of how surprised I was when I finally witness their purpose in the gallery. When we walked on the employee told us not to sit on them, but I never suspected them to move on their own. This work is really relevant to me as I like to believe that all natural forms on earth have a life and soul of their own, and the rocks gliding across the floor with no one pushing them made it seem very alive and sentient.
What did you notice, learn, or take away from the experience of the works in the gallery?
One thing I was exposed to that I wasn’t familiar with before was visual art that embodies movement and physical life. The majority of the art I have created or consumed is simply inanimate with no signs of life. Not only this, but a lot of the work we saw was incredibly minimal with some pieces being made up of a single object, yet every work clearly spoke its own unique story and feeling. The Video art portion of the gallery was really compelling specifically because of the shock factor of the sound and score. That piece made me want to explore with shocking sounds in my audio art.
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One Feat, Three Ways
stella, ella, ola
- now where did it go……
- swore i posted the project here forever ago!
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Audio Art
“feed for me. do for you.”
My project “feed for me. do for you” is supposed to be an unsettling audio experience that is inspired by the harm of AI. I was first inspired by the sound of rushing water in a drain. The only two samples I used were the robotic voice and the water which I then edited to create many disturbing and unique sounds. This piece is intentionally uncomfortable, messy, and unpredictable, which I wanted to highlight with the abrupt and sharp ending.
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Conceptual Portrait
Proposal
- My current idea is to represent either my family or my Mum on her own through the amount of medication we/she takes.
- As a family full of chronic illness, especially my Mum, our health and routine heavily affects our daily lives.
- Unsure of how I want to document this, but I am leaning toward a method that showcases a large quantity or an extensive amount of days, with the same pills every morning and night.
2. Felix Gonzalez-Torres inspired me with this piece. I like how he uses one single thing, candy, yet when its in a large quantity it carries a completely different message.
