- 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
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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 - |
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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