Chapter 3
1. “By dramatizing those aspects of reality that are hard to see, or that we are reluctant to look at, we can make the invisible visible”
This quote explains that how sometimes things like racism, injustice, and even brutality are usually ignored in the eye of the public. But there are moments in life that types of things need to be brought into the light for everyone to witness. People have the power to make that happen and fight against their corrupted society.
2. “Humor is a key element in a successful artistic activism. Where polemics and assertions put people on guard, and ask them to either agree or disagree, humor works more obliquely and doesn’t demand that a person take a stand.”
What I believe this quote is trying to explain is that humor can be a great advantage to have in activism. It can build connections to others to make great, laughter can also be used as a political power weapon only if it’s done well. Jokes for instances can be used as messages to the audience to understand the real meanings behind every activism group they’ll come across like the Blank Panthers or the American Indian Movement.
Chapter 4
1. “Through art, the ways of seeing of the rich and powerful are presented as the way of seeing for everyone; the elite set the standards to which we all feel we must conform”
During the 1800’s paintings of high society nobles were a constant reminder to every one of who rules over the lower level subjects. Lower subjects would face pain and poverty throughout their lives while serving the nobles of higher status. It really does show off the classism perspectives of both status and how messed up it was in reality.
2. “We can also create actions that propose radically new ways of making sense of reality. Instead of revealing the world at is, we here demonstrate the world as it should be”
Artists feel like they’re imprisoned inside their own cultures and don’t really have the creative to freedom to explore outside of that. There are ways to get around the cultures artists are in and putting together techniques like tapping into dreams or meditating. An artist imagination is a limitless skill that can go forever with no restraints, thinking the creativity and doing the unimaginable even if it’s ridiculous, absurd, or out of place.
Art performance piece:
Go to a hallway of a public place
Film the pieces of paper with problematic things wrong with the political system written on it
Have a person come up to see the statements
Rip them all up if they disagree and leave
“The only good pig, is a dead pig” by Awol Erizku
The artwork I chosen from the textbook stuck out to me the most which is a woman stabbing an anthropomorphic pig police officer in the back. I really do like how literal this, it gives the message to the audience that back then police force always had a negative impact on society and always shown to be pig-headed with power over citizens and always above the law, never listening to everybody else but themselves. That’s when this image was created to show the audience the true reality of world around.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zbQBD06N0Hs&pp=ygUSWW9rbyBvbm8gY3V0IHBpZWNl
“Cut Piece” by Yoko Ono
The cut piece was part of the inspiration for my performance art as it technically involved cutting off the strings of controlling power in society and breaking free from it. I do love how Ono did this performance as way to demonstrates the women constantly being viewed as objects and sexual violence they face. Ono took this opportunity to speak out about it in her own creative way by using a fluxus art movement which involved inviting audience members to cut off pieces of her clothes as she calmly sits still on stage while her body is being revealed to the public slowly while making a point. I can’t help but admire her commitment to her work and her cause.
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