Saturday, June 4, 2011
FRIDAY ENTRY
Hearing the news that you're applying to teach here at UCSB, offering three courses: Spectacle Praxes, Beyond the Studio, and Artist as Activism, of all three I would suggest taking Art as Activism. In my opinion I believe that the basis of most art is activism or making art for the purpose of spreading ideologies or ideas about our society. In being an activist, the thought process or paradigm must be shown and in most cases reveals itself through artistic ways. Artists like the creator of Obey and Neckface are both artists that are activists and I believe that an entire quarter dedicated to the study of which would be fascinating and interesting to a wide majority of students. You should definitely do the class on Art as Activism; also you should let me know if you do because I would love to take that class. I think that the number one way the movements and events are spread and globalized is through art and art cause a reaction. With every piece of art, a message can be demonstrated and is easily observable in history; from popularizing presidential candidates to promoting social awareness of any movement, art has been a useful tool in activism and there's enough out there to make a class for sure.
WEDNESDAY FREE FORM
THURSDAY CRIT
FAVORITE
Tea Party
My favorite personal space piece of this thursday was the project done by Kate in which she had a Tea Party with her doll friends and whoever else wanted to join in on the session. I think that she has a really good sense of humor and I could tell she had a blast eating PBJ's with her make believe friends. I really thought that the placement of her project made it successful as well because of how much foot traffic goes through the area surrounding the bike paths. Although the project was a little early in the morning to pull of a real afternoon tea party, I think the message still got through to the majority. As she was down to have a personal space to let her childhood memories flourish, I truly believe all students who checked out her project related to her story.
LEAST FAVORITE
Angel and Devil
My least favorite project of the day was the one about the Angel and Devil yelling at by passers by the book store. I get the idea they were going for with both sides of the human conscious giving conflicting ideas and wants, I didn't like the outfits they wore, I didn't like the location, and I didn't like at all what they had to say. It seemed to me that they were improvising as they went and had little preparation in making this piece as successful as it could have been.
Tea Party
My favorite personal space piece of this thursday was the project done by Kate in which she had a Tea Party with her doll friends and whoever else wanted to join in on the session. I think that she has a really good sense of humor and I could tell she had a blast eating PBJ's with her make believe friends. I really thought that the placement of her project made it successful as well because of how much foot traffic goes through the area surrounding the bike paths. Although the project was a little early in the morning to pull of a real afternoon tea party, I think the message still got through to the majority. As she was down to have a personal space to let her childhood memories flourish, I truly believe all students who checked out her project related to her story.
LEAST FAVORITE
Angel and Devil
My least favorite project of the day was the one about the Angel and Devil yelling at by passers by the book store. I get the idea they were going for with both sides of the human conscious giving conflicting ideas and wants, I didn't like the outfits they wore, I didn't like the location, and I didn't like at all what they had to say. It seemed to me that they were improvising as they went and had little preparation in making this piece as successful as it could have been.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
PERSONAL SPACE REFLECTION
My original idea was to dress myself up as the grim reaper and enter the UCSB campus with a message to tell as a comic relief to the stress that overcomes the majority of students in the dreadful week ten before finals week. My audience was primarily students, but also teachers, staff members like teacher assistants, and even some parents. As everything in art has a directed audience, people passing me during my piece had no idea what I was doing compared to the people of UCSB that reacted just as I had thought they would.
WHAT
For my piece, I decided to dress up like a zombie or skeleton figure and hold a sign out to by passers talking about the stress of school and what you could do to overcome such stress. As my grim reaper idea was a failure due to wardrobe malfunctions, I truly believe that the outfit I wore in replacement had just what I needed. For the two hours, I dressed in all black in the middle of the tunnel and held a cardboard sign with one message on each side in sharpie. On one side I wrote "IF WEEK TEN HAS YOU DOWN, SCREAM!" and on the other side I wrote "IF YOU FEEL LIKE A ZOMBIE SCREAM!" As most of the students feel the same way as I do, in reaction to the sign more than the majority of by passers let out a scream or yell to let go of some stress.
WHERE
My personal space was done at the bike tunnel on the Pardall entrance to campus. I choose this spot because when i first visited the campus, I had never seen such infrastructure in comparison to my boring community college in Los Angeles. I have always been a fan of echos and making a ruckus so when I had the chance to have as many people as I could scream in the tunnel like I do most days when I'm leaving campus, I was stoked. I think that the setting for this project in the tunnel was clever and extremely successful as students and others had no choice but to enter and walk past me to exit
WHEN
The only thing I was upset about was the timing of the project. As myself and many others have early classes, I believe that the campus is most crowded at noon or just before three so I probably didn't get the exposure I would have later in the evening.
WHY
I did this project to relieve stress on campus. If bypassers didn't join in and scream to relieve tensions of studying and graduating, they would come by and laugh or say a comment about how badly they want to scream as a zombie lurking around campus aimlessly to classes. I enjoyed the project and considered it very successful in terms of what I had my mind set on.
Monday, May 30, 2011
PERSONAL SPACE PREP: LEAST FAVORITE
My least favorite place in the world is a place where I'm tortured by the thoughts of bad past experiences or pending school work. Sometimes I'll be at the beach, my house, or another place I totally loved by merely thinking of certain things can make any place on Earth hell for me.
One place that I really don't like is the DMV, department of motor vehicles. The exact location of the DMV is not imprtant since I've been to multiple and they all seem around the same. At the DMV, the lines to wait for the simplest of things is always out the door and torturous. To add to that the DMV has some of the most pathetic, unhappy, depressed people that work there. I would be the same way if I worked there. In addition to the horribly long waiting lines and lame customer service, the temperatures are always higher than usual as the rooms are over crowded and seats filled up. In conclusion I hate any place where I'm stressed out, especially the DMV.
One place that I really don't like is the DMV, department of motor vehicles. The exact location of the DMV is not imprtant since I've been to multiple and they all seem around the same. At the DMV, the lines to wait for the simplest of things is always out the door and torturous. To add to that the DMV has some of the most pathetic, unhappy, depressed people that work there. I would be the same way if I worked there. In addition to the horribly long waiting lines and lame customer service, the temperatures are always higher than usual as the rooms are over crowded and seats filled up. In conclusion I hate any place where I'm stressed out, especially the DMV.
PERSONAL SPACE PREP: FAVORITE SPOT
In preparation for the Personal Space project, my favorite place in the world is extremely hard to pin point. If I had to pick one place I would have to pick a place that involves no stress and no school work pending over my head. One of the worst things that I've experienced in college is that no matter where I am or what I'm doing, the anxiety of school work and high expectations always takes my mind elsewhere. For my personal space that I like most at UCSB is the entrance to the school through the bike path that comes in from Pardall.When I was visiting UCSB one time before I got admitted myself, my favorite spot on campus was the tunnel ways that go into the school. Whether we took bikes or skateboards, the tunnel was always my personal favorite spot. I thought they were so cool because the reminded me back home at the coliseum or in the lax tunnel.
I think I'm going to do my project my these bike paths because its the exit of school. Of all the things that remind me of school work, when I'm coming in through this tunnel I get the most overwhelmed thinking of school, but when I'm leaving its the least spot I think of school rather than the rich culture that awaits me off campus.
I think I'm going to do my project my these bike paths because its the exit of school. Of all the things that remind me of school work, when I'm coming in through this tunnel I get the most overwhelmed thinking of school, but when I'm leaving its the least spot I think of school rather than the rich culture that awaits me off campus.
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