Michael Chen - Monuments

Context with art especially art installations or gallery/ sculpture spaces is a fundamental aspect of the presentation. To not be aware of the context in which one is placed or sanctioned a space is quite risky and could be perceived as ignorant from a bystanders position, for example a piece in a museum will have a different impact on the viewer given the context. In a museum there is a widely understood objective with the art given the space compared to a public space in a park. This can play out in extreme favor or detriment to an artists and their work.

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Clare Morrissey-Art and Social Change Reader- Week 6

Art and Social Change Invisible Theatre Invisible Theatre is the art of creating a performance in spaces that are not stages. The people who witness it cannot be aware it is a performance or else they would become spectators. The way this can be done is creating a solid and locked script that the actors stick to but also know it so well it allows flexibility and the ability for them to mess with it when the people witnessing the act give input or there is any disruption. The actors will prepare for anything when it comes to their performance. It is imperative to choose a location where people gather in large groups in the public. An example of how this is done is by having actors play in a scene in a crowded restaurant with many patrons. You have one actor make a big fuss over a meal they hate and the waiter offers them the nicest meal, acknowledging the price which the actor eating the meal lets it be known that the price is o...

Emmanuel Bradshaw-Monuments article-wk4

While reading some of the monuments pieces I felt as if each of them had something that they needed to prove. For example, for the Tate piece felt the need to expose what history has done to people. Each level exposed how much each person was taken advantage of in service of someone else. For the rumors of war piece exposed the whole idealism of the past resurrecting a past historical leader to make sure that the event does not happen again. The Bracero monument exposed all of the work that the people of that time had done in order to make sure that not another person is taken advantage of again. But truth be told, all of these monuments have come with some sort of backlash. The bracero monument had gotten criticism for stating that the braceros were free to do what they wished. From what the article had stated that was not the truth. It was merely one persons interpretation of what a bracero was, b...

Cy Krafft - Week 5 - Beautiful Trouble

I chose three tactics for my response. Inflatables, light brigade, and hoax. The inflatable tactic stood out to me because the entry description seemed to be the opposite of what I would expect. Having giant inflatables bouncing around a protest would indeed lower the seriousness of a protest, but not in a positive way. A protest with a bunch of beach balls and balloons floating around wouldn't strike me as a group that takes its own issue seriously. But on the other hand, inflated figures on their own can have a very effective message of ridicule (see the Trump balloon). I thought the light brigade tactic was very clever. It's a relatively accessible method of sharing a message, as battery powered fairy lights are sold basically everywhere. It's also very eye-catching and legible from a distance, versus normal protest posters that are either illegible at a distance or expensive to produce in large scale. The hoax tactic was very interesting to me. I wonder when the e...

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