Persona Final Documentation

This post I forgot to hit send on but its fine its all here and on time^^

Group Mates: Caelum Gay, Jenna Soberman, Ross Stevens

In Defense of Performance Art Response

I found this text to be very interesting, they describe performance art with many different terms, phrases, I had never heard before or never thought they would use. Saying such things like “The streets are mere extensions of our performance laboratory, galleries without walls if you will.” Or even my favorite quote from the beginning of this reading: ” our main artwork is our own body” treating their body as a blank canvas, where it can be changed, decorated, touched, etc. They are the main parts of a piece or of the performance piece.

This text portrays the performance artists and their works to be taboo to others, or not seen as real art. When to them, this is the most freeing, open type of art form they can pursue. As there are no boundaries for what performance art can or can’t be. So they are fully able to express themselves and their beliefs more freely. Also that instead of just looking at a piece, the audience can interact with it and be more moved or emotionally affected by the piece.

Out of this whole article, the part that really stood out to me was “X.-A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH” how Guillermo described that performance artists are absolutely dedicated to their art and their pieces, some would walk for days nonstop, some wouldn’t talk for days or months, but they all put their lives out public and in danger sometimes, to either prove a point, make the audience feel something or a number of other things. I personally believe that takes a lot of guts to do especially without taking any regards to your own safety.

Walking Down the Street (Review, For Class)

For the first thing I asked about my project, I asked how the music affected the tone of the piece, and how they would feel if the jazzy background music changed to a new genre, how it would change the tone of the video.

The main consensus for my video was that the jazzy background was well liked, giving off a very calming, coffeehouse vibe. Most people enjoyed it, some said that the visuals didn’t match the music and that it sounded generic. But for the most part, the music was well received.

The second thing I asked was asking how the narration aided or may not have aided the video and why. And once again, it was very well received, despite one or two people who believed it didn’t fit. They said it guided them through the video, and the audio surely showed that I was taking in the beauty of the area and they enjoyed the language the audio was speaking in.

I am very happy with the audio choices, the one thing I would change about my video is the actual shots themselves. As I haven’t really used a camera before and some of the shots are too blurry or too shaky or not enough shots of the land. I do wish I could fix that.

Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18vW_N-f7pWYwKxzneKu9mT9OVZftKy6q/view?usp=sharing