Weekly Selfie 5 | Navdeep Sanghera

 

Recreated Versions

                                 Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 10, 1973                                   

Rhythm 10 reminded me of the Knife Game. It was a trend everyone followed and played along with. An individual would sing the lyrics in rhythm to the knife passing through each finger. This performance art is a dangerous work of art but a sense of thrill is given when you live life by the rules and are confined in the strictness it gives a reality check of life. It's a simple dangerous act that intrigued me to choose this. 

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Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter

This was to become their first “Bed-in for Peace,” project which was part of the peace movement that gained much publicity.

Yoko Ono has been, without a doubt, one of the most misunderstood artists in the past 60 years. It is her massive fame, association with the Beatles, and heal-the-world rhetoric that have obscured her groundbreaking contributions to the world of art of the 1960s and beyond

I find this protest to be successful Yoko Ono and John Lennon were able to utilize Mass Media, Advertisements, and their fame to send a message about ending the violence of wars in Vietnam. John Lennon and Yoko Ono took advantage of using their fame to protest against wars. 

The statement of the author of the article, Bob Lansroth still applies truthfully now. I found out to know about Yoko Ono as I was growing up through the Beatles. Yoko's screaming performance during the Beatles, John Lennon, and Chuck Berry remained instilled in my mind. That one performance made me limit my perception of Yoko Ono being an obscure-wild Avant-Garde artist. 

Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy 

 Artists have to offer a different type of slowness to work against the speed of today.

I found it equally important to share the work of my colleagues and those artists of color that inspired me with both young folks that I identified with (meaning those that looked like me) and white kids.

We have been accustomed to everything being fast-paced, with technology and content from entertainment and social media apps we need more patience because we have easy access to the next episode on Netflix or scrolling on Instagram reels/YouTube Shorts/TikTok. Artists are challenged in this growing technology era of fast-pacedness.

When I was a young child, no artists represented colored people. We only had ourselves to proudly represent in being the first artists of color, me and my friends drew inspiration and strength from each other as, despite our vast different culture/religion we unified together as artists. We identified ourselves with each other as minorities and in our similar interest in Japanese art culture.   

Being Marina Abromović

I love routine. It gives the day order. I feel good when I follow a routine. If I don't — when I'm traveling, and my schedule gets crazy — I become unbalanced. 

Cleaning is very important to me. I clutter everything to the point that it's disgusting, and I go into a moment of denial, and then I clean everything until there's nothing left. 

Following a routine feels satisfying especially when you stick strongly to a plan, that feeling inside that you disciplined yourself is amazing. Having a routine with strong discipline is what many people want and value greatly in a person. 

I have a similar mindset to Marina Abromović, this goes again back to the feeling of reward and satisfaction feeling. I maintain the organization as it aids my mind in being less distracting and emphasizes the work more. I can allow for days to go buy, and my room to be cluttered but once I have a window of opportunity, I will use it to tidy up. My mom had embedded in my mind to always be clean and tidy as culture plays a huge role, maintaining a clean house makes our mind calm and relaxed. 

Khan Academy Performance Art An Introduction

Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present

Bill Viola, The Crossing

Performance art that involves the artist in a temporary showcase enclosed in an exhibition with availability to interact is the most fun. Marina Abromović appears powerful in stature with her bold red, white, and dark navy dress as she stares at incoming people in the Museum of MoMA. Temporary showcases/performance art become special as it relies on the person's memory and being a once in a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the artist. [in red, she is intense, assertive, while in dark blue and in white she is reticent, withdrawn] 1

The video installation intrigued me, a dichotomy of fire on the left and water on the right. Despite these contrasting elements they both display death, either by burning or drowning. 

https://bigother.com/2010/05/21/the-inside-and-the-outside-marina-abramovic-and-her-dresses/