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Group Installation
My group decided to start with a medium and from there pick the meaning, location, ect. The medium we chose was blank CD's in bulk. We had about fifty of them that we used scissors to cut into different sized pieces. This was slightly difficult because the more we cut the film of the CD's started to peel and fall off. One we had our pieces we switched our spot from the gallery to the window filled area where we hung our snowflake looking papers. We used rolls of tape to actually stick the material to the walls and we attempted to make the middle the most dense and have it explode out from there. We did this by putting the smaller pieces more near the outside. The idea was to have pieces also hanging and to make the entire installation look like a reflective portal, but we ran out of CD's and we had already spend a decent ammount of money so we decieded to just make due with what we had. After stepping back and looking at the mosiac of reflection, we thought it should have more movement so we lowered pieces on the left and it brought the piece much more unity. Overall I am happy with what we did for this installation!!
Self Installation
The object I picked for this assignment an project are CD's. Growing up Home Video was honestly a huge part of my life. I grew up pretty poor and so cable was never really an option for my family. Once in a while we would have family movie night or I would have friends over and my mom would let us pick one movie but everyone had to agree on what it was. The most fun part of the whole night would be running around the store with my friends or siblings collecting all the movies we thought could be in the running for the night. I think these memories mean a lot to me because it all feels very carefree and the things we worried about seem so small now. Today you can search any movie and watch it by yourself at anytime, but then it felt like there was more of an experience behind it with people I cared about. Most people I know do not have a DVD player at all and the Home Video store that I spent so much time at in my hometown is now a smoke shop. For my project, I want to highlight the loss of DVDs and the store as a reflection of my childhood being over because of how "vintage" they feel now. I have two visions, one being somehow destructing the CD's like cutting them to represent the closing of video stores and the other vision is somehow displaying a few disks in a museum like format with framed descriptions of the "vintage movies" (they would be iconic movies from my life). The idea would be to represent what it would be like for someone in the future to look at what I expeirced in my childhood which is not a thing anymore.
Installation Artist Research and Other Artists
The artist I chose for research for art installations from the library was Tracey Emin. The peice is called "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995" and consists of a camping tent which is put up and filled with names of everyone she has simply shared a bed with. One of her other known works is "My Bed" which depicts a messy room in a slept in bed. Emin can sometimes be known as a rebellious or controversial artist who explores her sexuality, gender, and identity in her work.
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy
Suzanne Lacy is a feminist and activist artist who focuses her art on sexual violence, real and urban poverty, incarceration, labor, and aging. She has a variety of media such as installation, videos, performance, public art, and photography. Lacy worked in the 70’s in a feminist art program at a university to dissect the idea of what it means to be a woman. She created the piece “three weeks in May” where two large maps of the city of los angles were printed out, and for every rape reported she would stencil the would rape on the map along with thinner outlined words which represented the statistic that for every rape reported, 9 go unreported. Lacy also often used real people in her artwork which she considered live performances and many times these were used as protesting female rights, fighting back again female violence, the lack of media representation, and to also challenge the way the media portrayed the way women were victims of sexual violence.
Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist who focuses on human rights and other types of activism. He uses chinese curlture as one of his biggest inspirations such as "ancient pottery and wood from destroyed temples" and creates new pieces with them to open civilians eyes. Ai Weiwei makes a lot of his art by taking these types of pieces and collectively brings them together or attaches them in new ways to bring about a new contemporary meaning. A lot of his work also influced by the 2008 earthquake and for being detained for 81 days in 2011.
(EDITED BY LILAH) I REALLY LOVE HOW THIS IMAGE CAPTURES AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE. IT IS LIKE HE IS THERE BUT HE ISN'T. IT CAPTURES SO MUCH EMOTION AND BRINGS SO MUCH TO THE IMAGE AND WORD.
(EDITED BY LILAH) I REALLY LOVE HOW THIS IMAGE CAPTURES AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE. IT IS LIKE HE IS THERE BUT HE ISN'T. IT CAPTURES SO MUCH EMOTION AND BRINGS SO MUCH TO THE IMAGE AND WORD.
"I'm quite frankly bitter. I don't understand why people don't see my potential. I sit here all day and all night in this dark corner just waiting for some use. I get taken out once in a while when my human decides to FINALLY try something new. But it's no use in getting excited because I always get stuck right back on that stupid piece of hanging plastic and shoved into a crowd of others like me, but SO much more basic.. I get it, I'm pilled, filled with weird geometric patterns that came right out of the 70's, and I also have a really weird stain on the sleeve that truthfully I have no clue where it came from. But I'm really so original and the quality of me is just drastically better than all of those Shien sweatervests everyone has these days where you pull out one string and the whole thing unravels infront of your eyes. It bums me out because I've been in this vicious cycle where I sit in the mens section of Goodwill just PRAYING someone will see my potential. And every once in a while a teenage girl wearing doc martins and baggy jeans picks me up and takes me home. I mean at least I get a fresh wash but then I'm shoved staright back on the rack where I slowly get pushed to the side as she wearing literally everything but me. I'm not relieved from my misery until she has time to do her yearly closet cleanout where I then get shipped off to some other resale shop. Truthfully, being the ugly vintage sweater in the back of every girls wardobe is as hard as it gets, but I have hope that soon I'll find my forever home :)."
A little about me:) she/her
A little about me:) she/her
My name's Anna but I've always gone by Annie. I'm a junior going for a BFA with a graphic design emphasis which I genuiley enjoy taking classes for. I'm a DIY kinda person and just love being crafty in general. My guilty pleasures are binge reading colleen hoover, thrifting, and experiencing new foods. I also love listening to music, I have headphones on 70% of my day.
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