Category Archives: Blog 01

I think in the Telephones made by Christian Marclay, the artist shows how an ordinary action can be done in many different ways for different purposes. Each time a different person dials the number, there is another feeling like anxiety, happiness, anger etc. Those different emotions are affected by different responses. While reflecting the emotions […]

In John Baldessari’s “I am making art” it seems that he is making fun and condemning artists of his time period for creating artwork that is garbage. Baldessari does not consider their designs and models as art. That is why he compares their work to different poses he makes. As his poses lack perception and creativity, as […]

Bill Viola’s Acceptance and Chris Burden’s Shoot both use the element of shock in performance art to express their intention of demonstrating people willfully submitting to pain. Viola utilizes the shock of nudity and getting doused with (presumably) freezing cold water. On the other hand, Burden utilizes the shock of violence and being shot with a gun. […]

The two pieces I wanted to discuss was “Telephones, 1995 by Christian Marclay” and “I am making art”. In Telephones the emphasis on cutting clips was represented by the process of dialing, picking up, and hanging up the telephone. Popularized by movie scenes this process highlighted the task of using a telephone. It was at […]

I found the Gillian Wearing video to be very interesting. It was definitely disturbing but I liked how it developed through the four minute duration. At first, the viewer is not exactly sure who the woman is, or why she is speaking that way and we cannot really find that out until we are introduced […]

Pipilotti Rist’s  “I couldn’t agree with you more” has this sense of mystery to it that makes the viewers want to watch it all throughout. From the very beginning we see her walking around recording everything thats happening around her, as she moves around we get different sights and we also get different points of […]