1. Gender
The person is walking slowly. Is it a man or a woman?(My teacher, Marcus mentions the title aloud: "Man Walking Down the Building.")
The man is walking slowly.
And, now with the title, I know why. He could fall; he is walking with caution and precision, because he is attached by a cable, to the roof. He is walking down the side of a building!
2. Dying Meditating
And, now with the title, I know why. He could fall; he is walking with caution and precision, because he is attached by a cable, to the roof. He is walking down the side of a building!
2. Dying Meditating
This demonstration reminds me of the Japanese artist-dancers who hung nude from a building, meditating. One artist-dancer's string broke, and he died in a peaceful state…
3. The people now walk across… I wonder why they are considered dancers… For this demonstration of wall-walking, I guess you do need balance, maybe grace, poise, and precision. Otherwise you might wobble and fall…
4. Bell-Bottoms
3. The people now walk across… I wonder why they are considered dancers… For this demonstration of wall-walking, I guess you do need balance, maybe grace, poise, and precision. Otherwise you might wobble and fall…
4. Bell-Bottoms
I love the bell-bottoms.
(Today, in class we made cards with...)
I would imagine the harnesses would hurt after a while… (Those are two words I did not use in my card today. Woops… ) Blood would rush to that side (?) of the body, too. Such a simple-looking art takes more work than it seems.
I would imagine the harnesses would hurt after a while… (Those are two words I did not use in my card today. Woops… ) Blood would rush to that side (?) of the body, too. Such a simple-looking art takes more work than it seems.
5. Controversy
1970… The “70s”… The late 60s. That was such a trivially artistic time. What I mean by trivially artistic... Watching the small crowd people watching the man go down the building appreciated art more back then. Maybe because they were drugged all the time. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter though. That’s pretty cool. I pause to watch the people on the wall. I like that they’re having fun with what they’re doing. But does that break the experience of others in doing so? Is the art that they are creating still the same art? Perhaps the art is in them being dancers: their grace and balance, their endurance even. This piece also reminds me of 60s Modern Art Exhibit that was at LACMA last year. An artist spray painted a six-pack of bottles and called it art. And it may be art to that artist whenever he or she created it. But I still wonder what happened to the effort in creating art. I feel like 60s/70s artists emphasized in lazy art. ... Blue circle, the bottles... more about trivial
contraversial... contraversy...context
1970… The “70s”… The late 60s. That was such a trivially artistic time. What I mean by trivially artistic... Watching the small crowd people watching the man go down the building appreciated art more back then. Maybe because they were drugged all the time. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter though. That’s pretty cool. I pause to watch the people on the wall. I like that they’re having fun with what they’re doing. But does that break the experience of others in doing so? Is the art that they are creating still the same art? Perhaps the art is in them being dancers: their grace and balance, their endurance even. This piece also reminds me of 60s Modern Art Exhibit that was at LACMA last year. An artist spray painted a six-pack of bottles and called it art. And it may be art to that artist whenever he or she created it. But I still wonder what happened to the effort in creating art. I feel like 60s/70s artists emphasized in lazy art. ... Blue circle, the bottles... more about trivial
contraversial... contraversy...context
What makes this man’s walk down a building art?… Art is a lot like politics—very deceiving in many ways, very trivial, sometimes with misplaced intentions, sometimes with no intentions at all, sometimes for self-satisfaction, a lot of times for self-satisfaction, most of the time for self-satisfaction.
The artists mock how people try to represent everybody’s daily life.???????
I feel like yelling at people sometimes to just shut up, own up to your true reason for doing what you are doing. "Shut Up!" Don’t mask yourself or your work to seem smarter or feel better about yourself. It’s a game, and a stupid one. Art is supposed to be about honesty. Or at least that’s what I think—revealing the truth (that’s another word I didn’t use). If something, some art is made for the sake of creating art, that’s perfectly fine. If it is made for a purpose, great. No one art is better than the other. People forget that… "Don't forget that!"
I want to be done writing but Marcus says to continue… he mentions across the room that this art reduces dance. But does it? OR does it perhaps expand the spectrum of what is considered dance> I would say that thus is definitely not what we conventionally think of as dance, with specific costumes or music. However it still requires a lot of skills that dancers use. So perhaps what is going on is at least dance-esque…
The repetition of the videos brings boredom to my mind… This is not an exhibition I would see multiple times on my own. I wish they would do something more interesting with what they are doing and hat materials they have available to them. They are sideways, in harnesses, have two walls (or one), and LOTS of space, and of course each other (or the windows), and the audience, to work with. They could jump around, play with their space. But I guess that would change the meaning and purpose of what they are doing—if they had a meaning or a purpose, which is actually not clear because toward the end they begin to play with one another anyway. Does this mean that they are even bored with their own art? That’s a little ironic…
The audience sitting at the beginning of the man-and-building video looks somewhat boxed up—like they are imprisoned.
The cinematography brings some authenticity and variation to the art. IT gives it an age, and in a way a better understanding of the piece.
… It matches Marcus’ software, which is also colored black and white. The marriage of the 70s and today. Wait! Is that art too??
My gift from Angel: The artists mock how people try to represent everybody’s daily life.
....
--Justine
I want to be done writing but Marcus says to continue… he mentions across the room that this art reduces dance. But does it? OR does it perhaps expand the spectrum of what is considered dance> I would say that thus is definitely not what we conventionally think of as dance, with specific costumes or music. However it still requires a lot of skills that dancers use. So perhaps what is going on is at least dance-esque…
The repetition of the videos brings boredom to my mind… This is not an exhibition I would see multiple times on my own. I wish they would do something more interesting with what they are doing and hat materials they have available to them. They are sideways, in harnesses, have two walls (or one), and LOTS of space, and of course each other (or the windows), and the audience, to work with. They could jump around, play with their space. But I guess that would change the meaning and purpose of what they are doing—if they had a meaning or a purpose, which is actually not clear because toward the end they begin to play with one another anyway. Does this mean that they are even bored with their own art? That’s a little ironic…
The audience sitting at the beginning of the man-and-building video looks somewhat boxed up—like they are imprisoned.
The cinematography brings some authenticity and variation to the art. IT gives it an age, and in a way a better understanding of the piece.
… It matches Marcus’ software, which is also colored black and white. The marriage of the 70s and today. Wait! Is that art too??
My gift from Angel: The artists mock how people try to represent everybody’s daily life.
....
--Justine
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