Performance Art Intervention - David Gonzalez

Performance Art Intervention

Chapter 3

"It was staged to protest the British Tea Act by which the British Government, which did not represent the American colonists, levied taxes on them and thereby violated their “rights as Englishmen.”"

Throughout history, people have committed themselves through activism against their governments, and leaders to spread the message to come to an agreement or come to a disagreement. For example, in this activism, the American colonist through all the tea that was imported at the docks in the rivers of Boston. This was done to protest the Tea Act implemented at the time.

"They give ideas emotional resonance by placing them within a human drama. In short: stories help us to “make sense” of our politics."

Sometimes politics is very hard to understand, I often listen to people who are older than me to understand, and then I look at the memes and pictures people post or create to better understand. Sometimes its humorous, sometimes it does convey the truth, and sometimes it's very real today. Kinda like how comedians' joke about something, and the reason it's funny is because it's true.

Chapter 4

"We’re taught to believe that artists create things that are new, unique, and absolutely their own. This is not true. Even sitting by themself, isolated in their garret, the individual artist is never alone: they are surrounded by culture."

I think culture really does limit to what we can create, not just for the individual, but for humanity. Artists have to create what is already there and draw from those foundations. I really think even sitting by themselves, they can't be alone with their own thoughts, since almost every thought has already been drawn in existence.

"Art is a means to recalibrate what we experience as reality."

Everything from reality is a means to create, like a wild forest, where man can either destroy it out of greed, or turn the wild into a garden that thrives within natures boundaries.

Performance Art - Endurance

1) Go to a gym, and find a smith machine

2) Lift 250lbs on said smith machine.

3) Hold the squatting position for 1 minuet

Inspired by Shaun Leonardo

The message I want to convey to the audience, is with endurance and determination, anyone can achieve the impossible, such as lifting 250lbs. I always thought what was lacking within me was mental strength, rather than the psychical strength, because you can't achieve both without the other.

Without believing in yourself, and pushing yourself, how can one hope to achieve something. I want the artwork to be inspirational, and motivational to those who are down in their energy to achieve their hopes and dreams.

Francisco Goya - The Disasters of War

The reason this art piece stuck out to me in the textbook is because this really details what war is between soldiers and civilians that follow. In war no one is spared from the horror and decollations of it. Here we have soldiers executing their prisoners at point blank for who knows what reason, but in the end does it really matter what the reason was. The deaths and tragedies that follow are almost never justified and the prize for winning is to keep living, that's the reality of war.

Yoko Ono - Cut Piece

I really took inspiration from this as well because Yoko Ono is doing the performance herself and not having someone else do this for her. She has the integrity to do it herself and not be dishonest.