Assignment:Body Extension
Create an art work that exists as a “body extension,” a sculptural/architectural/corporeal supplement. Use your own body as a starting point for an exploration of the self, including psychological and physical aspects and concepts of identity. The second part of the assignment asks you to interact with your body extension in a way that significantly alters your experience of it. Your interaction can be represented by video documentation, or by live performance.
Exercises:
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Bring in images that illustrate the concept of existing “body extensions.”
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Use any appropriate means to visually represent an aspect of your body experience such as an inner emotional, physical or sensory process. Do not explain what you know about it, but what you experience, do not use language. Notation methods can include drawing, diagrams, collage, etc..
Readings: Horn, Rebecca and Celant, Germano, “The Bastille Interviews.” Rebecca Horn, 1993 Linker, Kate, “On Language and Its Ruses: Poetry into Performance.” Vito Acconci, 1994 Pejic, Bojana, “Being-in-the-Body, On the Spiritual in Marina Abramovic’s Art.” Abramovic, 1993
4.301 Introduction to Visual Arts
Assignment: Shaping Time
Using demonstrated production and editing techniques, make a 90 second experimental video.
Sound must be diegetic or self generated.
This unit asks you to express emotional qualities of your choice by creating a rhythm and/or
procession of events through editing. Use as material for your video your physical self in space,
possibly in relation to objects, props, processes or movements.
Exercises:
Make (2) one minute videos: one in which time appears to be moving quickly, the other in which
time appears to be moving slowly. (Consider using a tripod.)
Remix: Using a provided film clip, make a one minute video edited to convey an emotive quality
not ordinarily associated with the clip.
Reading:
Brand, Stewart, The Clock of the Long Now
Viola, Bill, “The Porcupine and the Car” and “I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like”, Reasons for
Knocking at an Empty House
Gaensheimer, Susanne, “Moments in Time”, On Slowness, Lenbachhaus München
4.301 Introduction to Visual Arts
Assignment:Body Extension
Create an art work that exists as a “body extension,” a sculptural/architectural/corporeal supplement. Use your own body as a starting point for an exploration of the self, including psychological and physical aspects and concepts of identity. The second part of the assignment asks you to interact with your body extension in a way that significantly alters your experience of it. Your interaction can be represented by video documentation, or by live performance.
Exercises:
–
Bring in images that illustrate the concept of existing “body extensions.”
–
Use any appropriate means to visually represent an aspect of your body experience such as an inner emotional, physical or sensory process. Do not explain what you know about it, but what you experience, do not use language. Notation methods can include drawing, diagrams, collage, etc..
Readings: Horn, Rebecca and Celant, Germano, “The Bastille Interviews.” Rebecca Horn, 1993 Linker, Kate, “On Language and Its Ruses: Poetry into Performance.” Vito Acconci, 1994 Pejic, Bojana, “Being-in-the-Body, On the Spiritual in Marina Abramovic’s Art.” Abramovic, 1993