Project 5 Reflection: We Are The Canvas

Honestly, me and Gen fuckin killed it. I really thought that we were about to get butt ass naked after we introduced the idea of pointy pointy stab stab--> aka a knife. I was really surprised by Benjamin and Viviana's opposite reactions compared to the rest of the class, and that was either not participating or helping the chaotic circumstance edged on by the rest of our comedic savage class el oh el. Personally, I enjoyed the canvas aspect and how Gen and I were not necessarily the audience's objects, but more-so their potential masterpiece. It was quite fun emulating previous artists that had done similar work, both in a formal and informal manner. The social experiment was my favorite part. It was interesting as a psychology major to see the mindset of the class and how they were going to interact with us given the supplied materials. I thought this performance was dope, and I'm glad we entertained the idea.  

Project 4 Reflection

By farrrrr the most fun. Based off of a similar Youtube video, I proceeded to pounce, drum, and thrust my head into a tote dinner table. The different animals that I chose to immitate on how they eat challenged me in terms of the various levels of energy I chose to exert. Whereas immitating a rhino required me to full on ram my head and entire body into the table, immitating a sloth required much less force and energy and instead allowed me to convey time as it was. Having Lily dressed the way she was and having her writing on the board was a plus. It reminded me, and some of the audice, of a gameshow but without the host actually needing to speak. It just added to the aesthetics of the comedy in my opinion. Simultaneously, Gen sitting and eating her salad while completely unphased added more to the performance and the reaction of laughter generated within the audience. Loved this one. And I even got a couple of spinage leaves out of it!

Project 3 Reflection

By far one of my favorites. This was definately the most conceptual and the most layered performance I/we've done in class so far. I enjoyed the symbolisms of how messy, long but quick, and informal sex can be at times. That's why we thought it as appropriate to wear formal apparell, that way we could sploosh all over it with priminal and urgent lust. I didn't even have to take my shirt off because it was so urgent to sploosh whipped cream all over the place. I'm glad we found the white, rectangular pillar the set the condoms on. It added another layer of traditional forms of art and, thus, we could sploosh on that too. The lighting, setting of contrast of black and whites, and the action itself made this performance one of my favorites. I couldn't have done it without Gen, and am very glad to have had a partner willing to commit as much as I thought myself to have done.

Project 2 Reflection

Although this is my least favorite performance, I rather enjoyed dumping my hand into a bucket of slimy, sticky, clumpy, half thinned clay. Although the audience commented on how different it was from the seeds and wine being poured in terms that they could not hear it hit the table, I for one did hear it. It was quite the mud-like, poopy sound. I felt like through these simple acts of pouring out various matterials, we were able to depict the body as a tool, a medium so to speak, in which the matterials could be poured with. The elevated height gave another interesting element to the piece, shadows. Whereas we could have done the performce standing on the ground, the shadows as well as the unique  sounds from hitting the table would have been eliminated. Overall, it was a fun and simple experience, but this unfortunately was my least favorite performance.

Performance 4: How Animals Eat Their Food

Score....

All Performers maintain silence throughout

Gen and Ben in all black, Lily wearing big coat (kind of like a hostess)

Audience enters....plucky music is playing

Lily is the server, and writes the animal name on the board (there is a list of 10 or so)

Lily sets the table after everyone is sitting

One bowl for Gen and one for Ben

Ben goes away from the set table

Gen sits there eating her salad

Ben approaches the table using mannerisms of the animal indicated along with noises as well

Table is reset

Table cloth replaced, bowls replaced

The list is completed

The music stops

All performers bow

END

Project 2: Drip [Lily, Gen, Ben]

Score

Moderately dark room, lights front and center

Enter

Everyone stands on stool facing audience

Person 1 has clay silt

Person 2 has wine

Person 3 has seeds

3 cups in front

Begins to drip

Until all containers are empty

Everyone looks straight ahead

End.

Project 3....Sploosh

Score 

Heavy breathing throughout 

Black sheet in the middle of the room and central light

Performers wear all black, audience enters room and they begin to breathe heavily, all lights are off
once audience is seated lights are turned on by someone else
Both performers make their way to the black sheet in the middle
make eye contact for a second
then strip down to underwear
the female lies down
the male starts blowing up condoms and filling them with whip cream
hands to female to tie
she places them aside
both make sporadic moaning noises throughout
once the can of whip cream is gone, the bottle is thrown aside
a knife is pulled out and the blown up condoms are popped over the female
ends when all condoms are popped
female leaves stage