Before Assessment- Before the official performance, I have practiced without the garments for 5 times, and with the garments for 3 times -> During those 5 times of practicing without the garments, I have repeated focused on practicing the back rolls, to make sure I am able to do back rolls in the official performance, as well as the jumps with the hooded shirt, to make sure I am able to extend my arms and legs for the official performance -> While I was practicing with the garments for the second time, the string attached to my big hood broke, and I had to sew another string to it. And while I was practicing with the garments for the third time, the string that links the syringe to the earrings broke, and I joint it back with my hands, therefore it was not very well made Relfection of Official Performance- Mistake I have done:
Forgetting to button the shirt after I wore it on, and should not have waited until I wore the skirt - If I was the do the performance again, At the start of the performance, I should have face the audience more, as most of the time while I was skipping to the 1st garment, I was facing the audience with my back, and they were not able to see my facial emotions - Furthermore, while I was wearing the hooded shirt, the hood and extension of the big hood was covering my face, which then the audience could not see my face as well - To improve, I should videotape myself and invite people to see my rehearsal, so that I know where I should change to let the audience see everything I got, especially my facial emotions
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- Pina Bausch is a German dance innovator who was appointed as head of the Tanztheather Wuppertal, which the term Tanztheather unites dance and theatrical methods, including dance, speaking, singing and dancing, into one and be presented on stage to reflect and change the society and humankind - During the dance, 'Bluebeard', the female protagonist, Judith, Bluebeard’s wife, has attempted to make Bluebeard show his affection towards her multiple times - In the beginning, she has attempted to fall into his arms, hoping that he would catch her. However, she has repeatedly fall eleven times onto the ground. During these elven falls, she was looking at him, but he never looked back at her. These repetitive falls signify the blind trust from Judith and Bluebeard’s inability to love - Although Judith has kept desiring affection from Bluebeard, all she got was his coldness and violence, in which mutual understanding and love did not exist between the two of them AfterThought- In my performance, I want to incorporate the fall with my first costume. During primary school, we do ‘trust-falls’ to ‘train’ trust between us and our classmates and friends. The fact that I fall at the end, shows how my trust for her is being rejected, as she was not able to catch me and let me fall
- Furthermore, I would like to show a contrast of how I transformed from Judith to Bluebeard by reversing the first costume, which I was soft and gentle like Judith at first, seeking for someone’s affection; however, after I reversed the costume, I became cold and stiff like Bluebeard - Anni Albers is a renowned Bauhaus artist who experimented new materials for weaving as well as making jewelries from basic hardware materials - In 1940, she has created a collection of ‘anti-luxury’ jewelries with Alexander Reed, in which they have redefined what people thought of as ‘valuable’ - During their trip in Oaxaca, Mexico, they encountered the pre-Columbian jewelry of Monte Albán, which are made over a thousand years, formed of unusual material combinations of precious and non-precious elements, such as pearls and seashells, rock crystals and gold - They have later produced hardware necklaces, such as using washers, screws, angles and coloured jacks. In the photo on the left, they have made a necklace by attaching paper clips to a sink strainer - They have proposed a new definition for ‘value’: “From the beginning we were quite conscious of our attempt not to discriminate between materials, not to attach to them the conventional values of preciousness or commonness. In breaking through the traditional valuation we felt this to be an attempt to rehabilitate materials. We felt that our experiments perhaps could help to point out the merely transient value we attach to things, though we believe them to be permanent.” (Albers and Albers, 1942) Afterthought - In my own performance, I have made a pair of earrings using earring converters joined with a syringe and newspaper inside. To me, I value her straightforwardness, which is like syringes, as it goes directly to one’s bloodstream. Although she critics a lot and is opinionated like newspapers, she does care about others. Instead of making necklace, I have chose to make a pair of earrings because she rarely wears necklace, instead she tends to wear earrings more. To make it resemble her more, I have made these earrings on the left.
- Cabaret Voltaire was an artistic nightclub based in Zürich, Switzerland - Dada is an art movement that performed different events that proved to be pivotal at the cabaret, but was closed in the summer of 1916 - The Cabaret featured spoken word, dance and music - Artists have experimented with new forms of performance, such as sound poetry and simultaneous poetry - The artists have also mirrored the maelstrom of World War I, by exhibiting the performances in an chaotic and brutal way - The Cabaret Voltaire helped expand international cultural ideas, as the artists are refugees from all over Europe, and had all gathered here and found a creative outlet in the Dada Haus in this artistic nightclub - In the Cabaret Voltaire, 1916, various artists have performed together - At the beginning of the performance, two female performance artists have worn a soft, flowing dress with cape and danced in a stiff, robotic way, which they have seem to mirror each other’s movement - In my own performance, I plan to dance in a stiff and robotic way like the two female performance artists in the Cabaret Voltaire. I want to show how after I was rejected by my first friend, I did not know how to express my own feelings, and kept everything in, therefore my movements have became stiff and robotic
I have tried using the sewing machine for 3 days, however I have encountered a lot of issues during these 3 days, I have tested out different tensions at first, because the fabrics I have chose to use are hard to sew with, one of them is furry, the other one is stretchy, therefore I thought adjusting the tension of the sewing machine would help make it easier to sew. But still, the fabric would not sew properly, and at the end, I have to use another sewing machine.
Personal Context-Rebecca Horn is a German visual artist, who is famous for her body art, performance and installations -In her performance, she has made body-extensions to explore the equilibrium between body and space. Later on, she made kinetic sculptures to replace parts of the human body, which seem to have developed their own life -In Horn’s sculptural constructions for the body, she has undertaken the most systematic investigation of individual subjectivity -“Despite the sculptures’ medical imagery are deliberately clumsy and functionless, while other works attest to the unacknowledged affinities between humans, animals and machines” (Watling, 2012) Keeping Those Legs from Touching Each Other, 1974-5-In her piece, Keeping Those Legs from Touching Each Other, 1974-5, she has made two matching garments that are designed to be worn by two performers -Each of these garments is made from white bandage-like straps, which stretches from ones waist and hips down to their leg. One of the performers wear it around their left leg, and the other around the right -As there are powerful magnets that runs vertically down the outer part of each performer’s leg. As the two performers move together side by side, they have to try and stay apart from each other, despite that these magnets would repeatedly pull their legs together with a loud clacking sound -The original title of her work is ‘The Unfaithful Legs’, which suggests how one is unable to control their legs because of the intervening of the magnets AfterThoughts-In my own performance, I plan to interact with magnets. However, instead of just sticking two pieces of magnets together, I would like to play with three magnets, and act as the fourth piece, showcasing how four pieces of magnets could not work as two, and will be separated into smaller groups or another person left aside in the group
I'm going to make a garment, which shows the 5 friendships that I have encountered throughout these 20 years. These friendships have affected how I perceive relationships and connections with people, as well as my personality and characteristic.
However, because I have never made any garments, therefore I decided to use newspaper as an experiment for getting more familiar with constructing a garment. Personal Context- Joseph Beuys was a leading German Conceptual and performance artist
- Beuys's experience of fighting in World War II and was injured in a plane crash in 1943 has greatly impacted his future artistic practice -> On the eastern front in 1944, he was seriously wounded from a Stuka crash, and therefore always wore a hat to cover those scars - Beuys has incorporated his own personal experience into his art, while addressing universal artistic, political, and/or social ideas -> One of the examples would be How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare --> he has combined materials that holds personal significance, including: one foot wrapped in felt, the cradling of a recently deceased animal --> suggesting the healing potential of art for a humanity seeking self revitalisation and a sense of renewed hope in the future - He worked in Europe and America, and was associated with that era's international, Conceptual art and Fluxus movements -> Conceptual Art: prioritises ideas over the formal qualities of art, and rejected standard ideas of art. Artists abandoned beauty, rarity, and skill as measures of art. -> Fluxus movement: Fluxus sought to change the history of the world, including the history of art. The goal of most artists was to break the boundaries between art and life. Fluxus artists were most heavily influenced by the ideas of John Cage, who believed that one should embark on a piece without having a conception of the eventual end. It was the process of creating that was important, not the finished product. - Beuys's diverse body of work ranges from traditional media of drawing, painting, and sculpture to performance art -> Performance art may act as a healing effect for both the artist and the audience, taking up on the psychological, social, and/or political subjects - Beuys is famous for incorporating animal fat and felt in his works --> two common materials - one organic, the other fabricated, or industrial - that had profound personal meaning to the artist --> these materials are recurring motifs suggesting that art, common materials, and one's "everyday life" were ultimately inseparable - Beuys was part of the Fluxus movement, which is influenced in part by contemporary experiments in music -> found themselves turning away from the art world's prevailing commercialism in favor of "found" and "everyday" items for creating ephemeral, time-based "happenings," impermanent installation art, and/or other largely action-oriented events - Beuys was also famous for his practice of "social sculpture", where he collapsed the space between life and art, in order to make art more democratic - Personal Context- Bobby Baker is a female artist who produces radical work across performance, drawing and multi media
- During the 4 decades of her career, she has done a wide range of different work: -> danced with meringue ladies -> made life-sized version of her family out of cake -> driven around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at passers by through a megaphone to 'Pull Yourselves Together' - In 1996, she was diagnosed with as having borderline personality disorder -> 'Borderline Personality Disorder' is also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD) -> it is a type of Personality Disorder, which she would feel at least five of the following things: --> You feel very worried about people abandoning you, and would do anything to stop that happening. --> You have very intense emotions that last from a few hours to a few days and can change quickly (for example, from feeling very happy and confident to suddenly feeling low and sad). --> You don't have a strong sense of who you are, and it can change significantly depending on who you're with. --> You find it very hard to make and keep stable relationships. --> You feel empty a lot of the time. --> You act impulsively and do things that could harm you (such as binge eating, using drugs or driving dangerously). --> You often self-harm or have suicidal feelings. --> You have very intense feelings of anger, which are really difficult to control. --> When very stressed, you may also experience paranoia or dissociation. - Baker has also dealt with the theme of mental health - Most people associate colours with their own personal preferences, experiences, upbringing, cultural and contexts
- In Disney, the colours affect the audiences' perception of character and personality - The image below shows a random pick of 22 Disney heroes and 22 Disney villains and their most dominant colour - In my own practice, I would like to associate different colours to my friends |
Artist StatementOne’s clothing can reflect their character and mood. In particular, changes in their style of clothes and choice of colour correlates to changes in their relationship with closed and loved ones. Archives
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