“Soul”
Don't lock your soul in a small room, it needs to be released. Don't wait for others to save you, you have to save yourself.
Berger, Ways of Seeing Chapter 1
"The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe."
- There's a big difference when we understand something or when we don't.
"An image is a sight which has been recreated or reproduced."
- The way we view an image will vary depending on the photographer or painter's choice of subject, but how we feel about an image also depends on how we see it.
Widewalls | Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter
"As she explained, art represents a way of showing people how you can think, and even though some people think of it as a beautiful wallpaper that you can sell."
- The meaning of art is to let people understand the meaning contained in the work, and to let people understand something through the work.
"she viewed artistry as the absence of complexity, a vacuum through which she was led to a state of complete relaxation of mind. Her idea that physical presence of the artist could communicate far more forcefully than a mediated representation influenced generations of future artists."
- Art should express its meaning in the simplest and most direct way, and art that is difficult to understand will easily confuse people.
Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
“That project is entitled “You Walk”: as guests pass through this hallway, they encounter different text prompts that invite them to slow down. In the poetics of the text, I’m asking an individual to not only create their own associations with their lived experience but also imagine that same movement embodied by a very different person.”
- Every step is an experience in life, like walking in the corridor of memory, looking at the past of myself and others.
“I think the larger challenge surrounding not only the pandemic but also the converging crises of racial justice, reproductive rights, and everything else is the immediacy with which we are being called upon to act. This is infiltrated and influenced by social media and the sort of commotion and chaos of the news cycle: we feel compelled to act, act, act—to respond, respond, respond—and artists don’t operate best in that rhythm. Artists need to take in, to process, to decipher, to separate from the noise and create things that are beautiful and impactful to the spirit. Artists have to offer a different type of slowness to work against the speed of today.”
- No matter what kind of noisy and chaotic environment, artists need to abandon distracting thoughts and not be affected by distracting thoughts.
NYTimes | Being Marina Abromovic
"Many artists get their best ideas from their dreams or in a state of complete tranquillity. I hate the studio. It’s a trap to me. Ideas come from life."
- Ideas come from life, There are many insights and reflections in life. If people always stay in one place, they are imprisoning themselves.
“I’m not so much into my generation — they complain too much. They’re always too tired, too sick, too old. I prefer young artists.”
- As a creator, you need to communicate with different artists frequently. When you communicate with different artists, you may bring different new ideas and inspirations.
Khan Academy Performance Art An Introduction webpages
Marina Abramović sitting with Rebecca Taylor at The Artist is Present performance at The Museum of Modern Art, 2010
- This work left a deep impression on me. Sitting quietly, looking at each other, and gradually losing the sense of time. During this time, you will ignore Marina Abramovic’s character and other people’s evaluations of her, and only look at Marina Abramovic’s eyes. Feeling something different in eye contact.
Bill Viola, The Crossing, 1996, two-channel color video installation, with four channels of sound; 10 min., 57 sec.; performer: Phil Esposito, 4.9 x 8.4 x 17.4 m (Guggenheim Museum) © Bill Viola
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