Tuesday:
Finish Kilometre critiques
Intro to Video Art: Lecture
Thursday:
Please come to class – we will have a special guest artist: Megan Arnold
See her video – Are We Human, Or Are We Skater
Megan will be showing some of her own work in video – and introducing you to our local video art and media support centre: ED VIDEO
https://www.edvideo.org/programming?/events
During the final 1. 5 hours of in-class time –
Watch examples of works by Pipilotti Rist:
Read the article The World’s Most Colourful Video Artist –
Randy Kennedy, from The New York Times Magazine, 2009.
For a PDF of the article click here –
Create a short blog post responding to the reading, and reflecting on these questions:
- Post an image from one of Rist’s videos that you are most interested in. Summarize the action of the video. Who is performing, and how? Describe the images – including framing, colours, and movement. How did she shoot and edit the video? Describe the sound and how it interacts/enhances/competes with the images. How is it installed in a gallery – in terms of projection/scale/presentation in a context of other things? How does the work strike you?
- Rist has had a long career in video art making – how do you relate it to the kinds of video that you might see all the time on Tik Tok or You Tube, in our time? Reflect on her performances and also – on her ideas (particularly about women’s bodies, and sexuality, exposure, behaving strangely or subversively…) and how they play out from examples in her works.
- Experiment: While still at school – put on your sweater/shirt INSIDE OUT. How does this change how you feel? Is it changing how other’s are treating you? If you can wear your sweater/shirt inside out all day – make a few notes about the results of this very small change in your presentation in public. Is this a performance? Why?