Hello Class, I try to test drive all assignments that I might ask students to do? If you are stuck in a creative rut try this out. I start out with one sheet of white letter-size paper against the backdrop of a white sheet of paper. Here are the results.
How do I inspire an entire community and how might that same community benefit from art processes especially if they don’t ID as an artist. looking at Ann Hamilton’s the event of a thread and Jefferson Pinder’s Ben Hur as an inspiration.
Loosely inspired by the galley scene in the Hollywood epic, this crew worked themselves to exhaustion in this time-based endurance piece. Accompanied by the stylization of DJ Tony Tech, this choreographed performance delved into an outward display of virility and struggle. In this performance, the body is the ultimate vehicle to transcend in to a spiritual place. Ben-Hur establishes the undeniable connection between movement and emotion. Susan Leigh Foster writes in her book Choreographing Empathy, " Kinesthesia as entwined with the emotions presumed that all humans share this same connection and that they we all are equally moved by the same depictions of human predicament or struggle."
I’m really fascinated with the lives and art of those black artists who are coming of age after reconstruction. How they strive as an artist during a time when their lives were under siege. We must pay homage Cuts and Beats is my attempt to do just that.
