Museum Tour

Going to the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art & the Biennial of Art was great! While I found most of the art very intriguing and enjoyable, the concept artist that really caught my attention was Citra Sasmita & her three piece display “Esoteric Dance'”. A centuries old style of painting in the Kamasan style, the paintings all depict women in various positions; split in two, another emitting fire, and one with other heads sprouting like a tree with branches. Looking at the piece as a whole, the women seem to be a collective idea/body of shared experiences, female rage & strength throughout it all. You can really feel the its rawness, and vulnerability, honestly looking at it for awhile gives me a lump in my throat, you can really feel her pain she wanted to share. It’s stated that this work explores the emotional and unstable climate that we currently live in. Acknowledging vulnerability and grief, it emphasises the importance of beauty and passion above all else in our society that constantly changes.

Kilometre Assignment

This assignment was so much fun to do! For the kilometre assignment, EJ bought two 500-metre rolls of yarn, we then drove out to a forest and laid the yarn out, I wanted to portray those pictures you see of yarn and needles on a map to pint-point where one as been, but in real life! Walking around in nature and seeing the lake was also very serene and quite an enjoyable experience overall. To clean up we collected medium sized sticks and wrapped the string back up, it ended up looking almost like a rotting corpse which is super creepy so I wanted to include it!

Feat Video Art Assignment

“What do you see?”

For this assignment, EJ & I partnered up again, we wanted to display a series of breaking items, but it ended up looking like depictions of abuse, not just what it looks like but how the brain can be rewired after long-term, or short-term abuse and how it can damage the psyche.

1. A quick read (loop)

For the first shoot, I read the paper, a shield of ignorance in the face of dismay, I do not want to believe what is happening around me and would rather focus on and topics that interested me & issues that do not concern me. EJ walks up to me distracting myself and breaks that distraction by ripping the newspaper. At first I ignore the attacks, but they keep coming, I fight back but they keep coming, so I go back to ignorance.

1. Hungry (one shot)

In this scene EJ & I wanted something more valuable & more alerting to break, not just the plate itself but also breaking the action of eating. Food is vital for a healthy body, and for survival, this is a more personal attack, and a test to see what the other persons limits are. In this case, the victim stays, the abuser now understands that they can get away with more, push further.

1. “I’m sorry!” (sequence)

In this last scene, we wanted to portray an act of “apology”, the abuser trying to give back for what they’ve done, this does not right any wrongs, the victim doesn’t know whether to accept this apology or not, hesitating at touching the ripped newspaper and broken plate, finally reaching out again before it is all smashed to bits once more, this time the abuser acting more aggressive than before, breaking the plate into bits.

Music Assignment

For this assignment I wanted to create my morning routine during the summer as I worked a 9-5 job for 4 months, I’m not the greatest with my time management so I was always in a rush to get out the door on time, I tried to recreate that within the minute that I was given! I adore the summer, and love to listen to music as a daily part of my morning routine, this was one of my favourite songs to listen to in the morning as I got ready.

As a little personal note, I absolutely loved how my song turned out, and it’s really been inspiring me to make music legitimately.

Conceptual Portrait

I wanted to dive a little bit deeper into my personal life with this project, I really struggled coming up with a topic for this, as I didn’t know what I wanted to portray at first, going through my diaries, and looking at other conceptual portraits gave me some insight into using my journal as an art piece. At first I didn’t want to show my journal, and was content with doing a quick flip through to show all the different colours I wrote in, but realised that would take away from what is actually being said within my journal, and decided to display two pages I felt were the most moving, as the story within those pages still follows me to this day, as it is who I am, and it is also not.

Pipilotti Rist

Certaintly a very interesting artist, Pipilotti Rist is one of a kind. In the Pipilotti Rist Interview “Freeing the Wonderlight,”” I found her video of the naked woman actively digesting food to be the most interesting. Although I didn’t enjoy watching the video itself and thought it was a bit gross at first, the more I watched, the more I realized Pipilotti’s original intention was to show the human body in its most natural form. I love how she displayed this art piece on the ground as a large video projection; it almost feels like you’re being eaten and digested.

Pipilotti’s work reflects a ripple in today’s culture. In Beyonce’s “Hold Up” video, inspired by Pipilotti’s “Ever is Overall” video, both girls are seen holding weapons and striking cars and other mundane objects with them.

Button Assignment

This assignment was a lot of fun to work on, even though I didn’t entirely know what to do with my idea at first, and was adamant on doing it one way, I’m glad I followed your instruction as it turned out exactly how I envisioned a riot grrrl pin to look like. Riot Grrrl was originally used as a way for women to address sexism in the punk scene, it turned into something entirely new within girl culture. While Riot Grrrl is still quite the controversial group, the main ideology and movement is something that I deeply believe in.

1. Girlhood legitimacy
2. Female camaraderie and solidarity
3. do-it-yourself ethic

Last day of class was also a lot of fun, I was very happy that everyone really liked my buttons, when I handed them out I only received a quarter of them back which was very satisfying to see. I really enjoyed going around and looking at everyones buttons!