Improv Intervention (kind of) across a major walk path on campus.

I secretly videoed my parents, in the process capturing two natural moments. Email me (lowrys@mail.uoguelph.ca) if you want the password to view the video.

My parents were pulled away from their regular evening activities and sat down individually to discuss my most recent series of abstract paintings. They weren’t told to analyze them or criticize them, they were just told to talk about them. They also weren’t shown or told what the other had already said. This video reflects not only their relationship to me as their daughter and the art I produce, but also to how they go about viewing art in their own separate ways.

Chelsea Birnie, My Mother Destroys the Dining Room Hutch, 2016

A one-shot video of my mother destroying the dining room hutch. A sledgehammer was used as the method of demolition.

<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/158569864″>Ultrahustle Mom Party</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user47791484″>Alex Simons</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

In Rob Ring’s video piece, Ultrahustle Dance Party, the artist dances to the 70’s classic, “Do the Hustle”, playing on repeat for an entire hour in his basement.

In response to Ring’s video, I filmed my mom preforming a similar endurance task to a disco song from her past; the rules were adjusted towards her physical ability.

 

This video shows the different relationships my roommates have with their parents. My first roommate’s parents are divorced, which he decides to speak about separately, the second struggles to find the positives as he does not like his parents much because they fight all the time, and third makes it sort of flowery because he does not see them often. They were interviewed separately, then reenacted by each other using the audio from the interviews to go overtop.

Continue reading “Everything he did, and she didn’t – Andrew Mandaliti” →

 

I recorded an open conversation with my parents about relationships and marriage.  A week later I sat them back down to listen to the recording.  This video documents their reaction to the recording.

Mama is a video about my mother, who has Parkinson’s disease. Here she is depicted in her usually daily activities at home. This video explores my relationship to the condition as it manifests through the body of my mother.

Since we will perform our party art piece at our Bowling Party, Alex and I had to do some research on the location of our piece. So, Alex and I went bowling!

We looked around area and found key features of the Bowling Alley that we can keep in mind when preparing our piece. For example, we made note that we can:

• cheer whenever someone buys food or drink
• cheer whenever someone takes money from the ATM
• cheer whenever someone comes in or out of the bathroom
• cheer whenever someone hits a pin
• cheer whenever someone misses the pins
• cheer whenever someone gets their bowling shoes
• cheer whenever someone picks their bowling ball
• cheer whenever something happens on the TV in the lounge
• cheer whenever someone someone plays pool