No in-depth analysis on this. Just a fairy tale inspired performance work I've come across to keep in mind.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Ukrainian Sleeping Beauty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/28/sleeping-beauty-ukraine-allegory?newsfeed=true
No in-depth analysis on this. Just a fairy tale inspired performance work I've come across to keep in mind.
No in-depth analysis on this. Just a fairy tale inspired performance work I've come across to keep in mind.
Never Sorry
http://aiweiweineversorry.com/
There is obvious much to be said about the film Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry that includes a look into both his political activism and artwork. He is clearly fearless, incredibly intelligent and talented, but my limited knowledge on both he and his activism does not allow me to really write in-depth on the subject smartly.
So what I'd rather touch on is some of the points of the film that stuck out to me as both viewer and artist.
The first is how his childhood experiences intensely influence the way he operates in his adult life. This may seem like an incredibly simple idea, but one that resonates with me because it is a theme that I hold close in my own artistic ventures.
Mine is not politically charged like that of WeiWei and deals more-so with the nature and function of the human memory, specifically traumatic experiences and self-exploration. However, at the root similar: what we experience as children will inherently effect our outcomes, interests, ideals, personalities, etc. that we form as adults.
How we deal with and process this information is of particular interest to me. In WeiWei's case he used it to fuel his passions for political reform; to attempt to fix the problems his father's generation could not and that he saw first hand as a child. In my own case, it is more about sorting out the nature of what is real and what my brain has filled in. I always find interest in the way artists (or even just people) take various approaches to common experiences, i.e. in this case, the childhood experience.
I find this idea vastly complicated and am still not quite sure how to process or relate these thoughts, but am steadfastly working on a way how to within my own work and mind.
The other point that resonated with me was the point that art cannot simply exist; it must provoke a discussion. Obviously not all acclaimed, or even "good" artwork is politically charged or as aggressive as that of Ai WeiWei. Art would likely end up stale and redundant with use of the same subject matter in all pieces, but I must agree that for the validity of a work, especially today where a debate of what makes art "Art," it must make people think. Whatever that means exactly, I am still trying to figure out myself.
There is obvious much to be said about the film Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry that includes a look into both his political activism and artwork. He is clearly fearless, incredibly intelligent and talented, but my limited knowledge on both he and his activism does not allow me to really write in-depth on the subject smartly.
So what I'd rather touch on is some of the points of the film that stuck out to me as both viewer and artist.
The first is how his childhood experiences intensely influence the way he operates in his adult life. This may seem like an incredibly simple idea, but one that resonates with me because it is a theme that I hold close in my own artistic ventures.
Mine is not politically charged like that of WeiWei and deals more-so with the nature and function of the human memory, specifically traumatic experiences and self-exploration. However, at the root similar: what we experience as children will inherently effect our outcomes, interests, ideals, personalities, etc. that we form as adults.
How we deal with and process this information is of particular interest to me. In WeiWei's case he used it to fuel his passions for political reform; to attempt to fix the problems his father's generation could not and that he saw first hand as a child. In my own case, it is more about sorting out the nature of what is real and what my brain has filled in. I always find interest in the way artists (or even just people) take various approaches to common experiences, i.e. in this case, the childhood experience.
I find this idea vastly complicated and am still not quite sure how to process or relate these thoughts, but am steadfastly working on a way how to within my own work and mind.
The other point that resonated with me was the point that art cannot simply exist; it must provoke a discussion. Obviously not all acclaimed, or even "good" artwork is politically charged or as aggressive as that of Ai WeiWei. Art would likely end up stale and redundant with use of the same subject matter in all pieces, but I must agree that for the validity of a work, especially today where a debate of what makes art "Art," it must make people think. Whatever that means exactly, I am still trying to figure out myself.
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