1. identify the adjectives
You have to deal with the consequences you bring upon yourself. This goes back to responsibility, because the person who must deal with those consequences is directly responsible for having caused them in the first place. Inevitability. Necessity.
belabor, environment, people who are around you= situation change (depends on something around you)
2. identify the metophors
In Japan, We have the proverb which has same meaning. It means that be in a hall of one's own making, put one's foot into one's mouth. = Because own word, attitude, behavior...= Making a decision = Tied myself = Back to myself??
3. What does it make you think
Responsibility, My behavior, all our choice connect to the future.
4. How does it reflect your own experience of the world
I can say this proverb also be able to use for good meaning. For instance, I made a decision to study at CSM. This decision relate to the future(entire my life) and I left Japan because of my dream. So I have to work hard. Sometimes I tied pressure to myself but kinds of enjoying woking hard. My decision make me?
5. What might the quote have to contemporary society
Gender. If you decided, I live to be "woman" or "man" , you have to fit to the society. For instance, gender rule dress, public toilet, hair...
6. What is the visual style
What color white
material paper
object person
place would to be outside. busy place
A NECESSARY STUPIDITY
1. If you were to enact the quote what would you do (performance/film)
2. What's happen when you speak, record the quote in different ways (sound)
3. Explore changing the tense (Past, present, future, he, she, you, I, they)
4. Create an image for the quote (Photography)
1.There is a beautiful paper so I should use. However, at the first time, It was too beautiful white paper and I couldn't do anything for it. So I left. When I read this proverb,I thought that when I made a bed by myself, little bit uncomfortable at the first day. because It is too clean and my bed sheet is white so I feel like I cannot mess at all. I want to keep it super clean. So we demonstrated the different way of this.
Leona who is my group mate gave me a beautiful paper. There is a beautiful white paper in front of me. What am I going to do?
I left. I crush. I scribbled. I stepped on the paper
It was really interesting to demonstrate. I notice that I had a opportunity to chose what I can do for next? I had a decision. then I didi. then There was happening.
2. We recorded fast, slow, sound happy, angry.
Inspiration
Jenga and Chess is good example to see "Person make a choice by themselves and that decisions have consequences"
3. As He made his bed, so you must lie upon it.
As She made her bed, so she must lie upon it.
After She made her bed so she must lie upon it
After He made his bed so you must lie upon it.
4. Making a choice, decision
From today's demonstration, We made a definition. We always make a decision by ourselves. and that action is facing into the future, Even sometimes we don't really notice It is connecting.Also we go a key word. CONSEQUENCE.
We discuss that Is the Life is consequence? All the happening is consequence?
Yes. For example, All past happening lead me to come here. If I even one happening missed, I am not here. Even the bad memory.. I don't notice all the happening right not this moment is connecting to th future, when I think about past, I can say all happenings should be happen.
The reason why she cannot see the objects in front of her is we all don't know right now this moment is our choice. In the future, we notice.
In Japan, we also have a proverb which have same meaning. But It is came from Buddhist teachings. It is said, "If you considered and rethink about why did this happen? even you did bad thing, you can get a chance of reflection and improvement of your life."
Lots of people don't notice every moment is connecting to the future. Life is consequence. they are always making a choice by themselves.They spend time in everyday life without noticing. then we regret something in our life.
According to the list of "What we regret in life" (2016 website from the TED Taipei)
Education(32%), Career(22%), Romance(15%), Parenting(10%), Self(10%), Leisure(5.47%), Finance(2.52%), Family(2.25%), Health(1.47%), Friends(1.44%), Spirituality(1.33%), Community(0.95%)
From the list, We decided what do we put on the list for asking to the audience.
Love : Write and send a letter to the person whom you love
People are not good at saying "I love you" to person whom they love. make a opportunity to say I love you to the person whom they love.
Dream : Shout your dream
People gave up their dream because of age or gender... or cannot say to anyone and just keep inside of themselves. make a opportunity to say (shout)
Language : Say "Thank you" in different your home language
People regret to not study language. try to speak different language and start
Confidence : Say 5 points of your strength
" A big regret for most of us is questing why we had such little confidence in ourselves why did we allow the concerns of others to weight so heavy on us instead of trusting our own belief? Maybe we didn't think we were worth having what we wanted. Maybe we just thought poorly of ourselves. Later on, we wish we could have been more self confidence."
Tatoo : Experience one day tattoo
Some people want to get tatoo but don't get in entire life. We draw their hand and audience have experience one day tatoo.
Hug : Hug with someone one min
Interact between person's heart and heart each other. When audience have experience, they notice that this spiritual is important in our life.
Rest : Close your eyes and don't think about anything
"Japanese Zen". Being in busy city, we all forget to take a rest. we suggest to take time of Zen.
Adventure : Say your next adventure of your life
Try different thing and jump into the new world. It doesn't have to be big thing. For me, My life is adventure. I've never cared of future. Keep curious all the time and enjoy the adventure which we don't know.
We made stickers and Audience can put on their body after they choose their choice from the list. This makes people awake to understand "This is my choice". Also If they are group, they can see each other and everyone will have responsibility for their own choice.
Tutor suggested to us about the board we are going to use for asking to audience. He showed us the picture of the board of St. Martins MA degree show. It was used by grids system and minimal and clear. So I made a board which is inspired by it.
Reference
Ulay/Abramovic Performances 1976-1988 709.24 ABR
Marina Abramovic The Biography of Biographies 709.24 ABR
Breaking the Mode 391.092 BRE
Pina The Film and the Dancers Donate&Wim Wenders 792.8092WEN
Issey Miyake The Arizone Exhibition and children
In June 1997,entitled Isamu Noguchi & Issey Miyake, Arizona was held i the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kagawa. Arizona is also the name of a series of drawings by the artist Inokuma. Miyake had wanted to use this futuristic setting to put on an exhibition for children to commemorate his friend Isamu Noguchi, who was for him a mentor, and the man who had made him think about "the true essence of the West, of the East, and of Japan."
At the entrance to the hall, in front of a huge painting of a Kachina doll, a group of straw mannequins, dressed by Miyake in such a way as to recall Arizona, welcomed visitors. The works by Noguchi were taken from the Akari lamp series and included playground equipment and bronze sculptures. The combination of these works with Miyake's Pleats, shown in two or three dimensions, created a poetic atmosphere.
Throughout the exhibition, children were able to sample "the experience of making clothes", to wear the clothes they made and to take part in a fashion show. Surrounded by these clothes from the "future" that the children could wrap themselves in, hang on the wall or suspend from the ceiling, Miyake seemed gleeful. "I wanted it to be a joyful exhibition where children as well as adults could instinctively understand how to see freely and think about things."
The 90s were marked by "the bursting of the bubble" and the ensuing economic crisis. Whilst granting a vital place to tradition and the past, Miyake, conscious of being a citizen of the planet, started to direct this work more towards the future. In 1992, the Sunday Times, in an edition devoted to "I000 Makers of the Twentieth Century", described Miyake as "the world's most original fashion designer".
This is one of my favourite fashion exhibition. While children are having experiment, the space change gradually. The space is getting their colour. But Children don't notice and care about it and just enjoying the time.
Pleats Please exhibition in Toto Issey Miyake
Miyake set pleated dresses in their abstract form, flat on the ground, recessed into the floor of the gallery. Visitors removed their shoes and walked around the ovals and rectangles of cloth in yellows, crimsons, ochres and black. At the opening, guests arrived wearing these dresses and filling their flattened two-dimensional forms with the volume and movement of their bodies while the abstract outlines made geometry on the ground. Just as Miyake's imagination had previously adopted the poetic language of organic forms, these colored shapes of such deceptive simplicity could touch childhood associations. Miyake's response. The act of engagement was simply for woman to life the cloth, find the space for her headband the holes for her arms, then allow her body to fill the space. Miyake refers to cloth that moves like a breeze. at the body's breath and movements inflate these simple, flattened shapes into fluid three-dimensions.
Skip Arnold
For more than 25 years Skip Arnold has maintained a transgresssive practice of performance, film and installation art.
His work finds its foundations in the historical canons of performance that address and dissect the body politic – confronting the body as politicized, enculturated, but also addressing the body through the lens of humanitarian and ontological inquiries pertaining to strength, endurance, existence, and presence.
Skip Arnold is uncompromising in his work – he does not follow current trends, nor does he get stuck doing the same performances over and over. While he retains certain themes or courses of inquiry (the body, narcissism, the cinematic, dissection of a cultural / or social existence), his work has evolved considerably, especially with his recent sojourn in France.
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In Japanese, we have two proverb which have same meaning of it. one of them is Don't make a rod for your own back which means "lose one's freedom of action as a result of one's own actions". Thinking about necessary stupidity of it, this is exactly good example of this proverb. He is falling into his own trap.
Gruezi / June 2002
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button car accident scene
First, when I started thinking about the Life is consequence or not, Do we all make a decision by ourselves? I reminds me back this scene from the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
From this film, Actually our every single choice is facing to the future without noting. and there is some happening in everyday life.
Awaodori
It is one of the Japanese traditional summer festival. I go to "join" every summer. A thousand of performers dance and sing. We "Audience" also start dancing and singing. The sound of everyone's laughing. Everyone's getting into a rhythm of Japanese drum and clapping their hands, footsteps of dancing. The moment everyone who are "performers" and "audience" interact our heart each other.
What do we regret (from the list of TED) one of the answers are family and romance. This is the good example for interactive without talking on everyday basis. It is not object so we can't see so we don't notice. I and Leona can make a chance to tell or have experiment of this?
Inspiration for the board
I decided to look at works that have characters of these key words.
Keyword: Minimal, Clean, Simple, not many colour
The reason why I wanted to make minimal design was the most important part of this demonstration is interact with audience. If Audience don't understand and confuse, It won't be successful. I have to think about How I can communicate to think about all of these.
Typeface gc16 bold decision
Our project is communication with words. It is kinds of philosophy. When I saw the picture of Tate modern, I immediately decided to use this typeface. Typography which is word is going tone the most important thing and I thought this typeface which is minimal and simple and clear but unique is perfect.
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Yoko Ono "Wish Tree Garden" at Copenhagen Contemporary
What is your greatest wish? Share your dream and participate in the Japanese-born artist Yoko Ono's art installation Wish Tree Garden.
Each tree species is adapted to the place and its climate in collaboration with Ono. On a slip of paper, a so-called 'wish tag', anyone can write a wish which is afterwards hung from the branches of the trees. In Wish Tree Garden on paperlsland, trees from the Danish landscape grow on the Copenhagen quayside, where they do not normally belong. Japanese dogwood, birch and beech all create the impression of a garden you can walk in and see them blossoming, changing colour and losing their leaves in the course of the changing seasons. The slips of paper on the branches of the trees flutter in the wind, and all the individual wishes give the garden a poetic dimension.
Definition of interact is
Act in such a way as to have an effect on each other.
Communicate or be involved directly.
This is very obvious to express the definition of interact. People join and they make up together.
Also even though people who are not interesting art are easy to understand this concept and join. I was there long time to see how people react when they see this. First, they started be interesting and came near. and then started reading the wishes. the they wrote their wishes. Lots of people are interested other's people wishes and also want to write and share with people who don't know each other.
The interactive element make the work more memorable. Because the idea of "write a wishes". Everyone have at least one wishes and don't tell to anyone. This is the place we can put something which we cannot say in everyday life. and Leave our part of soul in here.
Maria Abramovic Rhythm 0 at Tate Modern
With a description reading "I am the object," and, "During this period I take full responsibility," Abramovi? invited spectators to use any of 72 objects on her body in any way they desired, completely giving up control. Rhythm 0 was exemplary of Abramovi?'s belief that confronting physical pain and exhaustion was important in making a person completely present and aware of his or her self. This work also reflected her interest in performance art as a way to transform both the performer and the audience. She wanted spectators to become collaborators, rather than passive observers. Here, they physically directed the actions, while in other performances, Abramovi? involved the audience through a dynamic exchange of energy. In Rhythm 0, the audience divided itself into those who sought to harm Abramovi? (holding the loaded gun to her head) and those who tried to protect her (wiping away her tears). Ultimately, after she stood motionless for six hours, the protective audience members insisted the performance be stopped, seeing that others were becoming increasingly violent.
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What strategies have they used to initiate their interactions?
How successful were the interactions?
What do think made them successful?
Did the interactive element make the work more memorable? Why?
Continuing the pattern of their solo work, Abramovic was the passive target of potential destruction, just as she had been in "Rhythm o" one of the public had attempted to kill Abramovic, yielding to the temptation she had offered by proving the audience with a loaded gun. Here Ulay was once again poised to obliterate his double, but this time the action was frozen in a still, almost photographic imagine.
Team Labo
Relationships Among People
Changing the Relationships Among People: Making the Presence of Other People a Positive Experience.
Paintings, for example, do not change in relation to the presence of other viewers or other people's behavior. The artwork is based on a relationship with the individual viewer. For the majority of art that we have experienced up until now, the presence of other viewers tends to constitute a hindrance. If you happen to find yourself alone at an exhibition, you would actually consider yourself to be very lucky.
When an artwork changes based on the presence of viewer? or their behavior, it causes the boundary between the artwork and the viewer to become blurred. In this case, the viewer becomes part of the artwork itself. Similarly, when the artwork changes due to the presence of others, those people also become part of the artwork. This changes the relationship between an artwork and an individual into the relationship between an artwork and a group of individuals. Then, whether a viewer was present five minutes ago, or how the person next to you is behaving right now, suddenly becomes important.
Digital art has the ability to change the relationship among people who are present within the same space.
If the interaction of other people with an artwork creates change that we feel is beautiful, then the presence of other people can in itself become a positive element.
This applies not only to art. Even in modern cities, the existence of other people might be considered as something that we find uncomfortable. We cannot understand or control others, so the existence of other people around us is something that is simply tolerated. This is because the city does not change based on your existence or the existence of others. If cities were to become digital artworks, then the presence of other people could become a positive element in cities as well. In this way, the search for new relationships between people may be able to go beyond art, potentially creating new relationships between cities and individuals, as well as new ways to bring peace among people.
I really like the way of thinking the interpretation of Interactive. The viewer becomes part of the artwork itself make art work together. Art becomes change and more beautiful because of the existence of other people. This changes the relationship between an artwork and an individual into the relationship between an artwork and a group of individuals. What do we have to think about is the real society is we always work with other people. Also when I attend to the lecture of Stephen Jones, he said, fashion is communication, people and people trust each other and work together. However school taught us work individual when I was junior school and high school. We didn't really do presentation or communicate in the class. Art can be a chance to think about what is the relationship I and the other person?
If The World Changed
This Interactive Digital Installation consists of a seemingly endless number of holograms. The figures depicted in the holograms exist independently from one another, they play instruments and dance, and each individual is influenced by the sounds from the figures close to them. There is no lead figure that oversees or can influence all the other dancers, and there is also no center or order enforced on the crowd. External events can cause disorder, but then in time gradually peace will be restored.
When a person enters the installation and a figure senses the viewer, the figure responds to that person and stops playing music. The figure passes on this information to other figures close by. After a short period of time the figure will start playing music and dance again, but this disturbance will have disrupted the harmony. If, however, the viewer stays still or leaves, the dancers will begin to form back into one harmonious group and the feeling of peace will return.
In Japan there is a primitive dance festival called the Awa Dance Festival that dates back so far that its origins are unknown. Groups of individual dancers play music and proceed around the town arbitrarily. Groups play their own music as they like and dance as they like. Interestingly for some reason the music forms into a peaceful order across the whole town. Dancers that randomly meet other groups of dancers gradually and unconsciously match the tempo of their music with the other group. This is not due to any set of rules; it just feels right and happens unconsciously. It seems that people are set free from their inhibitions, and an extraordinary peaceful feeling prevails despite the lack of any order to the dances. Perhaps this is how people of ancient times maintained a feeling of peacefulness.
Today, in the Internet age, the speed at which people can connect with other people has accelerated. As a result people throughout the world have become increasingly connected, and the influence of connections to other people has become more important. What we experience in this new age can be considered similar to the experience of the dance festival, and perhaps in these unordered connections there is a way to find peace. The figures that appear in the holograms are anonymous and unknown figures because this helps the viewer to feel part of the installation, and by becoming part of the installation, anyone can experience the feeling of peace that is realized without order.
Audience moves, Art also moves, but the art is also person. Feel like It is alive, real person but actually we as an audience control them. Thus should be very confuse the relationship real world and unreal world. We control them( art ) or do they actually person who is alive.It is like we are in the maze of the someone's heart. Team Labo actually made real next world. There is going to be not only human but also robot or this kind of "person" maybe in 100 years. Also This art is inspired by "Awaodori". My interpretation of Awaodori is interact peoples heart each other and this is exactly what I said. The interactive element make the work more memorable? Because Audience are able to notice, feel easily I am one of the artist who are making this art. There is no final outcome. Always the art change feel like We are in the different world? we are in the new adventure world???
My London
Café Art connects people affected by homelessness with the wider community through art, and for its latest project, handed out 100 FujiFilm single-use cameras to people affected by homelessness, asking them to capture simply ‘My London’.80 cameras were returned and over 2,500 photos were developed, which were then whittled down to 12 by an expert panel and public votes to form a calendar.
“The calendar also has a goal of telling stories from individuals who are affected by homelessness, thereby raising awareness in the general public about issues from a personal perspective.
“All the money raised goes back into the project, either to pay for the printing of the photographs and calendar, rewarding the winning photographers, buying art materials for art groups affected by homelessness or helping individuals attend art courses. Art is seen as a major way for people to recover from the trauma of being homeless.”
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