Fluxus:
Joseph Beuys: I like America and America Likes Me at the René Block Gallery in New York. The action actually began at Kennedy Airport, where friends wrapped him in felt and transported him to the gallery in an ambulance. Beuys then spent several days in a room with only a felt blanket, a flashlight, a cane that looked like a shepherd's staff, copies of the Wall Street Journal (which were delivered daily), and a live coyote. His choice of employing a coyote was perhaps an acknowledgment of an animal that holds great spiritual significance for Native Americans, or a commentary on a country that through its Western expansion had become "lost" America.
I'm inspired by this piece because I want to infuse my project with social commentary. I want to create art that has meaning, and want to try and use the fluxus way to gently push the audience into accepting that the video I create might have more to it than what meets the eye.
Alison KNowles, is a fluxus artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances and publications. In 2000 Knowles began casting flax paper to make musical instruments and used beans for sound with the aid of text toys and silence. Bean Rolls: A fluxus production. designed by George Maciunas in 1963. A four inch square cube contains seventeen tiny scrolls, each with material about beans in songs, recipes, stories, science, cartoons, ads etc. Each scroll is different held together with a small dental rubber band. Four or five real beans are in a can to make a sound in a book when it is shaken.
Joseph Beuys: I like America and America Likes Me at the René Block Gallery in New York. The action actually began at Kennedy Airport, where friends wrapped him in felt and transported him to the gallery in an ambulance. Beuys then spent several days in a room with only a felt blanket, a flashlight, a cane that looked like a shepherd's staff, copies of the Wall Street Journal (which were delivered daily), and a live coyote. His choice of employing a coyote was perhaps an acknowledgment of an animal that holds great spiritual significance for Native Americans, or a commentary on a country that through its Western expansion had become "lost" America.
I'm inspired by this piece because I want to infuse my project with social commentary. I want to create art that has meaning, and want to try and use the fluxus way to gently push the audience into accepting that the video I create might have more to it than what meets the eye.
Joe Jones participated in the Fluxus art movement, taking part in a number of Fluxus performance art activities with his automaton-like music machines - made from found ready-made instruments. In 1963 he performed his machinic noise music at the Yam festival in New Brunswick and a year later he performed again at the Avantgarde music festival in New York City. He created many machine drum exhibitions and art actions in New York City and Nice, France during this period.
I love the inventive ness of the the instruments that he creates and the use of sound is very interesting. Maybe I can translate this auditory invention into a visual one and create a video that is as original as Jones instruments.
I like the fact that she is using beans, an everyday object and transforming them into something worth listening to and looking at. I want my project to try and transform the everyday into something that is worth watching and worth creating
In all I still want to pursue my idea of using the tv in my project. I want to focus of commercials but want to explore social issues through commercials. I think commercials tend to depict this idealized, perfect world in which you get everything you want at a super low price too! I think this is highly unrealistic and want to create a video of my own that combines many commercials into one over stimulated, over produced video that depicts the face aspect of what they display of tv.
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