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Vanessa Beecroft

VB61 Still Death! Darfur Still Deaf?:

Took Place in Sudan

Performance Duration lasted 3 Hours

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Vanessa Beecroft

VB 52:

Took Place in Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2003

“This performance is an allusion to my Book of Food, a food diary I kept from 1983 to 2003 in which I obsessively noted everything I ate as a proof that I had committed no crime, yet still I couldn’t live in my body in peace. At a glass table sat a group of 30 women, nude models, veterans from previous performances, women related to the castle or local aristocrats. The women, following my diet, ate for three consecutive days food served and divided by colors: yellow, orange, red, purple, brown, white, green, brown and multicolored.” -Vanessa Beecroft

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Vanessa Beecroft

VB61

Took Place in Pavilion of Contemporary Art,

Performance Duration lasted 3 Hours

“All were wearing black dinner jackets, suits, eating chicken, brown bread, drinking water, without platters or silverware, in front of an audience of invited guests. the 20 hosts of the supper sat silently eating during the opening for 3 hours.”

Photo Credit: Google Image

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Much criticism has been leveled at Beecroft for her sexism, racism, narcissism, exploitation. What is your perspective?

No one really knows what Vanessa Beecroft would be feeling or thinking when she was arranging or planning for her performance. There are many who would disagree with her work while the other feel passionate her style: some say her work/performance is fighting to raise awareness for women. Some would use her work as a bullet to attack and claim her “as a hypocritically self-aware, colossally colonial pomo narcissist.” or that she uses feminism as the shield for her reputation in the art world. My perspective of Beecroft’s work is that she is fighting fire with fire; some of her work are meaningful while the other leads people to think that she has a hidden agenda of ethnocentrism. But before leading to my final conclusion, I need to define what is it like to be an artist.

According to the book of In the making, “artists advocate or oppose any topic…without the need to have the standards of correctness or the need of credential/approval” by the United States government. This statement stated that there is no right or wrong answer for a Beecroft to express or embrace her system of work even though the majority of the public may disagree with her. In conclusion, I feel that the controversial use of women what makes Beecroft stands out as a performance artist among the others. Vanessa Beecroft’s Provocative performance/work is what attract and makes the public to be curious about what the unrealistic of women beauty standard looks like in the art form because it is something that everyone is afraid to really dive in and talk about it.

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1 of 3 Marco Maggi Vertical Carousel 2010 Drypoint aluminum in 80 side mounts Photo Credit: Josee Bienvenu Gallery

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2 of 3 Marco Maggi Crossing the Ocean in a Glass of Water 2010 Cuts on plexiglass dome, plexiglass sheet Photo Credit: Josee Bienvenu Gallery Web

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3 of 3 Marco Maggi The Web is Dead 2010 Cuts on plexiglass Photo Credit: Josee Bienvenu Gallery Web

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Marco Maggi:

Why does Maggi use the material he chooses?

Marco Maggi work from the material that is normally considered as disposable, it gives a little twist to the whole idea of “use-it-up and-throw-it-away application” when he turns it into artwork. The reason for his choice of material is that the material he uses does not define the individuality of his work, but rather it is the different method or incision approach to the material. Maggi’s works Untitled Reynolds V(1999) and Blind Sliding (2010) demonstrate his approach in giving a whole new identity to a regular household aluminum foil. Maggi carefully engraves machinery-reminiscent patterns onto the roll of foil, while for Blind Sliding(2010) He cut out engraved aluminum foil into small piece, mount, then rearranged to become a new work. Both work belongs to the same family, but can be stands out as an individual. Maggi praises the effort and craftsmanship of his work more than the use of material or scale. To him, a million dollar artwork can be crafted out of everyday household material like the Reynolds foil wrap.

Top Two Photo: Untitled Reynolds 1999 Drypoint on foil and cardboard box Photo Credit: Masahiro Noguchi, (IN THE MAKING)

Bottom two Photo: Blind Sliding 2010 Drypoint on aluminum foil in 87 slide mounts Photo Credit: Josee Bienvenu Gallery

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Which of Maggi’s material use made the most sense to you?

The use of Xerox paper and aluminium foil in his work make the most sense to me. SImply the book (In the Making) talks about how Maggi dislike advertisement  work to be bold or looks expensive. Xerox paper and aluminium foil are intended for household use by the advertisement. Maggi using those material for his artwork makes a statement that he does not like to follow what the advertisement says.

Photo Credit: (Left) Roll Magazine ( Google Image) (Right) Josee Bienvenu Gallery (Web)

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China Adams: If you could ask China Adams any question, what would it be? Why ?

1. What is the statue of art vs the statues of the artist? China Adams talks about how selling her bones can make her become the statute of art, does that have higher value than the name of the artist and all her work?

2. If you artwork generate zero percentage of your income most of the time,  do they considered as the investment for “damage control instead? I understand that artist does not like to produce work just to sell (like Marco Maggi), but is that your motivation to complete your work, since you also mention about you getting a lot of work done when you are not happy/ under stress?

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If you were to show someone a couple of images/video of Adam’s work that best illustrates what her work is about, what would they be?

Like Vanessa Beecroft, China Adam’s work are like static performances waiting for the audience to reactivate it by the audience's imagination.  Blood Consumption, and Painting without paint, are the epitome of static performances art. Every great book writer leaves clue to make the reader think, just like artist creating visual clue to keep the audience interested. While Adams has notary stamp to proof her statement, it leaves the audience with no choice but to think about her drinking the blood. Some people find it credible(since drinking blood risk blood contamination), while the other disagree with her claim to be the true love act. The painting without paint, force the audience to listen to her conversation without listening.

Photo Credit: China Adams (Web)

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WolfGang Laib

Milk Stone (Top)-                                              (Click “Milk Stone” for link)

1983–1987

Marble

Pollen(Bottom)-                                                 (Click “Pollen” for link)

“Pollen is the beginning of Life”

Laib Started to collect the first pollen in 1977, exhibited from January 23–March 11, 2013

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Cai Guo-Qiang

Part of the Sky Ladder Series

Fire Works (Project)

Fallen Blossoms:

Explosion Project

Drew Lausman is another artist who uses fire works to paint that Qiang had reminded me of.

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Janine Antoni

(Top) Saddle

Rawhide From Cow

“ Antoni's objects are often visually arresting. For the 2000 piece, "Saddle," she cast her body on all fours in plaster and draped the figure with a cowhide, hardening the pelt before removing the figure. The resulting translucent sculpture is at once compelling and repulsive, erotic and strange. One in a series of six, the version of "Saddle" in the current exhibition is noteworthy for its black fur where Antoni's feet would be. “ -Laura Parsons

(Bottom) Gnaw

Made from the 600Lbs of Block Chocolate and Lard

Then she chew the 600 lb of block chocolate then use the chewed out chocolate to make the heart-shaped packages for chocolate.... A chocolate container made from chocolate.

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What is your favorite Charles Ray work? If you don't like the work, which work do you dislike the most? Either way, please explain why?

Charles Ray’s “FireTruck” is my favorite, simply this sculpture reminded me what I have learned in class. NEVER CLAIM TO BUILD A HOUSE AS A SCULPTURE UNLESS I PLAN TO BE BUILDING A LIFE SIZR HOUSE

Top Photo Credit:  The Broad (Google Image)

Bottom Photo Credit: Stefan Haus Words (Google Image)

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Some of Yanagi's work speaks directly to a world full of arbitrary, and perhaps sometimes not so arbitrary boundaries. It would seem to speak toward things like the current 'immigration' issues in America.

How would you define a 'border'? Give example(s)?

*First Example*

In Yanagi’s perspective, his definition of the border is the idea of the society the standard of people in class determined by wealth and at the same time of how Japan government controls the people to be educated and serve their country. In my perspective toward the definition of the border, it is the sense of the self-defense toward the unknown. It is not a physical bricks wall or a simple red line that separates people, but rather it is the trust between the people or living organisms. The reason I define the border as a mental state rather than a physical thing is because it is reflecting how our human mind works and programmed to survive. For instance, most of the time we distance our self from the strangers when riding in the subway, simply because we distrust their intention. Yanagi talked about each ant is programmed to be dutiful about serving their purpose. In the past, most likely our ancestors grew up in a tribe and the tribe meant the home to them. The ant colony is the tribe for the ants, they work together in order to keep the tribe alive and survive. At the same time, ants and humans always want to have someone to look up to and depend on. Japanese would look up to their emperor while the ants would follow their chosen leader of the any colony’s command. The part where ant and human are different is that human has the ability to develop skepticism that set up the border, while the ants tend to work their best to break down all the border as they traveled in Yanagi’s Asia Pacific Ant Farm.

Photo Credit: TImeToast “The Ute Indians”

The reason I have chosen this photo to represent my responses is because I have learned about the way the Native American Still treat the European settlers as if they are brothers and sister even after they knew the European settlers had the intention to take away their land and resources. The Native American worked together as one in the tribe ensure the survival of their kind, their fundamental philosophy was that every life and everything is precious. For example, they would hunt buffalo and completely consume all of the meat then use its skin and bones for a purpose. The native American would never choose to throw away any part of the buffalo that they ate because it was their way to respect the life and food granted by nature. They share their food, land, and almost everything to the English settlers, because building up borders was never the way a human should have lived among each other in their perspective. They are one with nature.

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Continued Responses in video form -How would you define a ‘border’? Give example(s)?  *Second example* The human that the society considered as “advanced” is the opposite of nature. Even Yanagi considered the ant colony as “Perfect” that human can only dream to become. Because of self- interest greed, the human race basically was forced the need to develop the ability to create the border in order to survive. Otherwise, the evil will use and consume the good for their own greed. Like this video, for example, the youtuber/ artist is pouring Molten Aluminum into the ant colony and burning the ants alive. While this person can be assumed to be making reputation and money out of murdering these hard working ants. (The ants are like the immigrant, they might have taken the space of his home, but they are only looking to survive.)                      Without the border, the human race can be eradicated.

Video Credit: Anthill Art at Youtube channel.