Intro to 4D

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Homework due 11.22.11 TUESDAY MAKE-UP CLASS

Work and Re-work: Significant progress on your performance project. Be prepared for class critique of your work in progress.

Performance Art: 1980's-Present

Pauline Oliveros
1967 “Alien Bog Beautiful Soop” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxjzNfwnINU
1983 “Horse Sings from Cloud” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqc8OmaggFg

1980’s

Mark Pauline & Survival Research Labs, 1979 - 1980’s
1988 “A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief” VCA 5564 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRI93tWFyY
1994 "A Calculated Forecast of Ultimate Doom" San Francisco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNdH2ByfCM

Tehching Hsieh
1980-81 One Year Performance” April 11, 1980 - April 11, 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVpyMfeqoBY

Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh
1983-84 “Art/Life: One Year Performance (a.k.a. Rope Piece)” 4 July 1983 – 3 July 1984 http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/montano_tehching_ropepiece_1984.jpg

Laurie Anderson
1981 “O Superman (For Massenet)” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw
1984 “Langue d’Amour” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2g8a9DnWU

Paul McCarthy
documentary “Destruction of the Body” (2001) VCA14303 http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy.html

1990’s

Andrea Fraser
1991 “May I help you?” http://blip.tv/smac-scribemedia-arts-culture/andrea-fraser-3-2495087
2003 “Untitled” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/fraser_untitled2003_01.jpg http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/fraser_untitled2003_02.jpg

Coco Fusco & Guillermo Gomez-Peña
1992 “Undiscovered Amerindians” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX2Lk2tdcw
“The couple in the cage [videorecording] : a Guatinaui odyssey“ VCA4352 http://vimeo.com/7319457
“Operation Atropos” DVD10349
Interview with Coco Fusco DVD10118
2009 “"A Room Of One's Own: Women and Power in the New America"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Voh4nLWIw

Janine Antoni
1992/93 “Loving Care” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_lovingcare_1993_01.jpg
1992 “Gnaw” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_gnaw_1992_01.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_gnaw_1992_02.jpg
1993 “Lick & Lather” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/antoni_lickandlather_1993.jpg

Matthew Barney
1987-ongoing Drawing Restraint http://www.drawingrestraint.net/
Short interview about Drawing Restraint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83WTxmkye04
2005 Drawing Restraint 9 Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxsXLMbQA5Y
1994-2002 Cremaster Cycle http://www.cremaster.net/
2002 Cremaster Cycle Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_aZQffIBw0
Cremaster 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9tM8dcyuk
Cremaster 2 http://www.youtube.com/user/LeRareMovies#p/u/27/v6rD4y7ZltY
Cremaster 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VpXpMJzPVc

Contemporary

Miranda July
2000 “Love Diamond” performed at The Kitchen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuU99STtP2s
2001 “The Swan Tool” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMi5FW5fWk

Patty Chang
2003 “In Love with Patty Chang” short documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeEMWNqjJw

Sharon Hayes http://www.shaze.info/
2003 “Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29“ http://www.shaze.info/projects/sla_video.html
2007 “Everything else has failed! Don’t your think it’s time for love?” http://www.shaze.info/projects/eehf_audio.html
2009 “In the Near Future” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/hayes_inthenearfuture_2009.gif

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
2009 “Never Mind Pollock” http://vimeo.com/10953391
2011 “Afghan Hound” http://vimeo.com/31501248

Tino Sehgal
2007 “The Kiss” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thekiss_01_2007.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thekiss_02_2007.jpg
2010 “This Progress” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/sehgal_thisprogress_2010.jpg

Ernesto Pujol http://ernestopujol.org/
2010 “Awaiting” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-npj7cgGI

Nick Cave
2010 “Soundsuits” performance UCLA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksm7LkzyFrk

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Homework due 11.17.11

1. Experience: Go to see at least one of Performa's live performances http://11.performa-arts.org/plan-your-visit/calendar. Do at least 3 sketches in your sketchbook and take notes, be prepared to describe the performance to the class.

2. Read: Excerpt from RoseLee Goldberg's _Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present_ http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/TheLiveArt-1970-80.pdf. Be prepared to discuss in class.

3. Create: Make a rough sketch of your performance piece. This should include drawings, photographs and video. Be prepared to discuss/perform with Norene & Reena.

Performance Art: 1950's-1970's

Performance Project (due 12.08.11, documentation due by 12.19.11)

Einhorn (Unicorn), Rebecca Horn, 1970

For your final project, create a five-minute (or less) piece that explores performance. We are defining performance as "the execution of an action" so your project has a wide range of options and influences: Rebecca Horn (prosthetics), Marina Abramović (direct use of the body), Adrian Piper (confrontation/politics), Robert Whitman (interaction with projections/media), John Cage (sound), etc. This can be a recorded performance or a live performance.

The key to many successful time-based artworks is documentation. Think about how you are going to stage it, and what exactly you want the audience to see for your final critique: Is it a live performance? Are you showing only evidence from a past performance? Are we watching a video of the performance? Is there an installation component?

The project is due on 12.08.11 and you have a maximum of five minutes to perform/present your piece. You have a choice of several rooms in addition to our regular classroom for the final performance and critique:
2 W. 13th St. L704 is available every Thurs. 9am-2:40pm
2 W. 13th St. L711 is available Thurs. Dec 1 and Dec 8 from 9am-11:40am
Please check out these rooms to see which space will work best for your project.

Please plan in advance. Check out the available rooms, and consider how, when, where and what equipment (camera, TV, DVD player, LCD projector) you will need. Your performance must be thoughtfully documented. Arrange for one of your classmates to video/photo it, including reserving the video camera and tripod. The documentation will then be assembled into a mastered DVD due 12.19.11.

*Reena will be organizing the crit schedule and equipment, so you need to let her know ASAP what your needs are.

CLASS SCHEDULE

11/10 Week 10 PERFORMANCE
Introduction: Performance History (50’s-70’s)
Movement exercises
Review preliminary sketches
HW: Go to at least one Performa event, rough sketch of performance (drawings + movements), reading

11/17 Week 11 PERFORMANCE
Introduction: Performance Now (80’s-Present)
Review performance sketches
HW: Go to at least one Performa event, significant progress on performance

11/22 **(TUESDAY) MAKEUP CLASS
Week 12 PERFORMANCE
Class critique of works in progress
HW: Significant progress on performance

11/24 Thanksgiving Holiday NO CLASS

12/1 Week 13 PERFORMANCE
Demo: Mastering to DVD
In-class work time
HW: Significant progress on performance

12/8 Week 14 PERFORMANCE CRITIQUE ** LAST CLASS

12/15 Week 15 FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT FINAL REVIEWS

12/19 Intro to 4D DVDs DUE BY 10AM IN MY MAILBOX, FINE ARTS OFFICE 25 East 13th Street 5th FLOOR

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Extra Credit Artist Talk with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen at Location One

November 3, 2011 6:30pm
Artist Talk with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Curator Jovana Stokić speaks with Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen on the subject of her current exhibition Afghan Hound. FREE and open to the public.

http://www.location1.org/afghan-hound/

Homework due 11.10.11

1. Read: Excerpt from RoseLee Goldberg's _Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present_ http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/readings/TheLiveArt-1950-60.pdf. Be prepared to discuss in class.

2. Look: Watch this live performance piece by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: http://vimeo.com/31501248. Be prepared to discuss in class.

3. Think: Come up with three preliminary ideas for your performance project. Include drawings and notes, be prepared to present in class.

4. Document: Export your animation and upload it to the class youtube site. Instructions are posted here: http://introto4df11.blogspot.com/2011/10/exporting-from-fcp-and-uploading-to.html.