Category Archives: HW Blog 01

The Way Things Go by Fischli and Weiss showed a mechanism of how ordinary objects can be turned into something elaborate and be used in a different way. Our eyes move with the currently moving object and the camera helps focus our attention by either moving closer to or farther from the object like when the […]

Douglas Gordon’s short film, Play Dead; Real Time, elicits feelings of vulnerability, seclusion, entrapment and tragic destiny.  Each movement the elephant takes expresses signs of frailty, caution and fear of the unknown that awaits the creature on its journey through life.  Lack of sound strengthens the idea of remoteness from the world and others.  Seemingly […]

Martha Rosler – Semiotics of The Kitchen Looking at Martha’s expression she shows boredom, maybe sadness.  As I watched her kitchen tools demonstrations it is clear she intended to portray the oppressed roles of females working in the kitchen in a solemn fashion, where we can feel the anguish of many women at that time being […]

In the piece, Ever is Over All, by Pipilotti Rist, a stark juxtaposition is used to convey beauty, destruction and perhaps even delusion. Ms. Rist exhibits two overlapping video moments simultaneously and, as far as I could tell, placed them at a right angle within the exhibition space. She chose to use the camera at […]

Douglas Gordon – Play dead; Real time I think this video purpose is to take something dark and cast a different view on it. Gordon purposely records the entire image in a single shot to show that up until one dies, life is continuous. He also chooses to to record on the ground and only […]