Ivana Munoz
PERFORMANCE ART ACTIVISM POST 7
Choose a quote or artwork from the Chapter 4 reading that you found interesting. Using inspiration from the previous readings, the small instruction pieces that we wrote and performed in class and the videos of performance artists thus far, write a new short performance art piece. Write clear instructions of how this piece would be performed. What various steps does the performer do? Be clear and detailed. Be creative and bold! Note some of the performances we watched in the videos and performances you have seen or read about. Use these to inspire your piece. Describe your performance piece in detail and write a short script or instructions for the performance. How might the audience participate? Sketch or include images if these can be helpful. What issues does the performance address? Connect your performance back to your quote or artwork from the chapter.
This artwork caught my interest that everything is not what it seems and people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, this artwork demonstrates that hidden message.
The artwork of how people portray them to be big, strong and serious but in reality the image shows that the people are short and with an carefree mindset. My message that everything is not what it seems and my art performance demonstrates the emotion of my self experience being in the middle of an conflict. It can also symbolize the trust you have in others, how they make you feel or how they make you feel when you react to certain things. Friends can provide security and also family, but it can feel suffocating and the thought when people don’t respect your boundaries.
My message that my art performance symbolizes my way of thinking and the blanket is used as a tool for comfort/safety but it can also be harmful to you when that blanket gets twisted or torn apart, and there is no longer support or strength from the blanket . For example if a friend is down and depressed, you can’t really lift that person or change that person, only that person is able to pick themselves up. By pulling and vigorously pressuring that person, it will not make that person give in to whatever you need from them. But using the 2 people for example, they can provide that safety net that you are in good hands, guide you by the use of the blanket. The 2 people can be your friends, your family, your parents and the different movements of the blanket can symbolize both good and bad from being guided and under someone else’s care.
My Art Performance: “Pressure”
The weight of others makes an difference.
Lay out a blanket on the floor wide open.
Lay down in the center, on the floor and look up.
Just imagine the blanket presenting your guard, your safety net, your emotion
(2 people on each side of the blanket lightly moving the blanket like wind holding the sides)
Then the 2 people start moving the blanket left and right like its a tug of war.
A few seconds later as you start to close your eyes, the moving stops.
You get up and stand in front of the blanket and stay in the moment of silence.
(2 people then hold the blanket up side by side like a green screen in front)
As they hold the blanket, you make movements of reaching out your hands/arms within the blanket without the audience actually seeing your presence.)
10 seconds later the 2 people walk behind still holding the blanket and pulling it against your weight.
As your grasping for grip on your feet, the 2 people wrap you like a burrito and leave.
The blanket should cover everything but your head.
Fin
READ: Chapter 4 CULTURE, from The Art of Activism, Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
2 quotes and short response for each quote
“Fortunately, this isn’t the only culture we live in and express ourselves through. We are part of multiple cultures existing simultaneously: the culture of the region we are from, the cultures of the age, gender, class, sex, religious, and ethnic groups we are part of, and the cultures, including alternative cultures, that we create ourselves”( pg165)
With different cultures, it can be complementary or contradictory. Culture is what we make up who we are and how we make sense of the world. We create forms of culture that express the values we want to see reproduced instead of being passive to accept those of dominant culture, and in today’s society we use social media to express our values and involve culture with radical political events.
“If putting culture in the service of politics sounds somewhat totalitarian, it is. But, then again, so is the society we presently live in”
Means that the lifestyle we live in makes up our culture and what era we live in. How we do an routine after work or the way we brush our teeth, symbolizes our everyday practices that support our culture. The common conversations we have at work, the clothes we wear, and the rituals of memorizing an person’s daily routine. Everyday we learn, live and reproduce capitalist. culture
Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
https://hispanicexecutive.com/shaun-leonardo/
2 quotes and a short response to each quote
“I attribute my work ethic to them. However, it was in the mentality of striving for the best that I was also taught that success meant economic stability and mobility. And so art wasn’t really within my vision as a child: I never quite know what inspired me, other than the moments where I did see and take in art. I don’t know what drove me to identify as an artist because it wasn’t within my familial background”
This quote was very inspirational, felt the same emotion as the artist. I never expected myself to make art as a career due to my background, didn’t see my vision as a child but finding myself seeing great artworks made me believe I could achieve that and anything else.
“That practice takes the form of a workshop, as does much of my performance. So it is difficult for me to distinguish what others might call a more “polished performance” from a pedagogical practice because for me, they’re one and the same. The workshop, the platform of teaching and learning, is in and of itself the performance. It doesn’t lead to another output or product.”
When it comes to art performance, there is no such thing as a polished performance but is polished when the main message captures the audiences emotions.
Ivana Munoz
PERFORMANCE ART ACTIVISM POST 7
Choose a quote or artwork from the Chapter 4 reading that you found interesting. Using inspiration from the previous readings, the small instruction pieces that we wrote and performed in class and the videos of performance artists thus far, write a new short performance art piece. Write clear instructions of how this piece would be performed. What various steps does the performer do? Be clear and detailed. Be creative and bold! Note some of the performances we watched in the videos and performances you have seen or read about. Use these to inspire your piece. Describe your performance piece in detail and write a short script or instructions for the performance. How might the audience participate? Sketch or include images if these can be helpful. What issues does the performance address? Connect your performance back to your quote or artwork from the chapter.
This artwork caught my interest that everything is not what it seems and people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, this artwork demonstrates that hidden message. The artwork of how people portray them to be big, strong and serious but in reality the image shows that the people are short and with an carefree mindset. My message that everything is not what it seems and my art performance demonstrates the emotion of my self experience being in the middle of an conflict. It can also symbolize the trust you have in others, how they make you feel or how they make you feel when you react to certain things. Friends can provide security and also family, but it can feel suffocating and the thought when people don’t respect your boundaries.
My message that my art performance symbolizes my way of thinking and the blanket is used as a tool for comfort/safety but it can also be harmful to you when that blanket gets twisted or torn apart, and there is no longer support or strength from the blanket . For example if a friend is down and depressed, you can’t really lift that person or change that person, only that person is able to pick themselves up. By pulling and vigorously pressuring that person, it will not make that person give in to whatever you need from them. But using the 2 people for example, they can provide that safety net that you are in good hands, guide you by the use of the blanket. The 2 people can be your friends, your family, your parents and the different movements of the blanket can symbolize both good and bad from being guided and under someone else’s care.
My Art Performance: “Pressure”
The weight of others makes an difference.
Lay out a blanket on the floor wide open.
Lay down in the center, on the floor and look up.
Just imagine the blanket presenting your guard, your safety net, your emotion
(2 people on each side of the blanket lightly moving the blanket like wind holding the sides)
Then the 2 people start moving the blanket left and right like its a tug of war.
A few seconds later as you start to close your eyes, the moving stops.
You get up and stand in front of the blanket and stay in the moment of silence.
(2 people then hold the blanket up side by side like a green screen in front)
As they hold the blanket, you make movements of reaching out your hands/arms within the blanket without the audience actually seeing your presence.)
10 seconds later the 2 people walk behind still holding the blanket and pulling it against your weight.
As your grasping for grip on your feet, the 2 people wrap you like a burrito and leave.
The blanket should cover everything but your head.
Fin
READ: Chapter 4 CULTURE, from The Art of Activism, Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
2 quotes and short response for each quote
“Fortunately, this isn’t the only culture we live in and express ourselves through. We are part of multiple cultures existing simultaneously: the culture of the region we are from, the cultures of the age, gender, class, sex, religious, and ethnic groups we are part of, and the cultures, including alternative cultures, that we create ourselves”( pg165)
With different cultures, it can be complementary or contradictory. Culture is what we make up who we are and how we make sense of the world. We create forms of culture that express the values we want to see reproduced instead of being passive to accept those of dominant culture, and in today’s society we use social media to express our values and involve culture with radical political events.
“If putting culture in the service of politics sounds somewhat totalitarian, it is. But, then again, so is the society we presently live in”
Means that the lifestyle we live in makes up our culture and what era we live in. How we do an routine after work or the way we brush our teeth, symbolizes our everyday practices that support our culture. The common conversations we have at work, the clothes we wear, and the rituals of memorizing an person’s daily routine. Everyday we learn, live and reproduce capitalist. culture
Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
https://hispanicexecutive.com/shaun-leonardo/
2 quotes and a short response to each quote
“I attribute my work ethic to them. However, it was in the mentality of striving for the best that I was also taught that success meant economic stability and mobility. And so art wasn’t really within my vision as a child: I never quite know what inspired me, other than the moments where I did see and take in art. I don’t know what drove me to identify as an artist because it wasn’t within my familial background”
This quote was very inspirational, felt the same emotion as the artist. I never expected myself to make art as a career due to my background, didn’t see my vision as a child but finding myself seeing great artworks made me believe I could achieve that and anything else.
“That practice takes the form of a workshop, as does much of my performance. So it is difficult for me to distinguish what others might call a more “polished performance” from a pedagogical practice because for me, they’re one and the same. The workshop, the platform of teaching and learning, is in and of itself the performance. It doesn’t lead to another output or product.”
When it comes to art performance, there is no such thing as a polished performance but is polished when the main message captures the audiences emotions.
WATCH:
Shaun Leonardo | art21
https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/shaun-leonardo-the-freedom-to-move/
Diana Ocholla Art as Activism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1iPX3eO3EA&ab_channel=OpenGlobalRights
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