I meant to do this yesterday, but in any case I'm going to be doing a review on the group project I was in. Our final project was a lineup of 5 black silhouettes marked with racial labels, with instructions on the side and a banner below that contained a quote (that I unfortunately don't remember very well. It got stolen, too!). We had originally only put a very small amount of racist stereotypes on the silhouettes, which in turn prompted people to write their own thoughts and ideas. We actually got quite an impressive response - I honestly didn't think so many people would have responded over the weekend, mainly due to the lack of classes. But people responded, and quite wonderfully! We had a few written responses that said some negative things, but for the most part there was an overwhelming desire for people to list the positives of the races, not to list stereotypes and negativity!
If there was one thing we could have done better, it would be to have both protected it from the rain, and to have had it up even longer than two days. I can't even begin to think about how many people may or may not have responded if we had left it up for over a week - the results would have been fantastic!
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Daily notes for march 15 and 17, and project notes for current project
Well, this week we've mostly been just working on your next project.
Monday we discussed the two artists our reading notes were done on... reading I have to go do right now, actually. But afterwards we spent the time in our project groups, working more on our ideas for our next project. This is also what we did for the entirety of today (wednesday), so there really isn't much more to report.
As for the project:
We're to do a political piece on a subject determined by group. I was originally with the group that was going to do Environment, but we broke up because we couldn't think of any decent ideas (or agree on any, in any case). So now I'm in the group that's covering "judgement" as in stereotyping and judging others before you really know who they are. The idea they have is to take five paper silhouettes and attach them to a wall on the outer perimeter of Rowe and label each a different race (like White, Asian, Black, etc.). In addition I think (but I'm not sure) that they're going to write beneath the racial labels lists of stereotypes for each (like under White they might have "redneck", "hillbilly", etc.) and beside the entire lineup have a poster of some sort requesting passing students to "fix" the labels - to correct the stereotyped ideas, to draw, graffiti, or write their thoughts and feelings about the various discriminations.
Hopefully we'll be able to actually get a few people to write on it; the worst that could happen is if it gets completely ignored, but we can still use that in our presentation I suppose.
We have to get the silhouettes up by friday so there is some time before the due date for them to accumulate responses.
Monday we discussed the two artists our reading notes were done on... reading I have to go do right now, actually. But afterwards we spent the time in our project groups, working more on our ideas for our next project. This is also what we did for the entirety of today (wednesday), so there really isn't much more to report.
As for the project:
We're to do a political piece on a subject determined by group. I was originally with the group that was going to do Environment, but we broke up because we couldn't think of any decent ideas (or agree on any, in any case). So now I'm in the group that's covering "judgement" as in stereotyping and judging others before you really know who they are. The idea they have is to take five paper silhouettes and attach them to a wall on the outer perimeter of Rowe and label each a different race (like White, Asian, Black, etc.). In addition I think (but I'm not sure) that they're going to write beneath the racial labels lists of stereotypes for each (like under White they might have "redneck", "hillbilly", etc.) and beside the entire lineup have a poster of some sort requesting passing students to "fix" the labels - to correct the stereotyped ideas, to draw, graffiti, or write their thoughts and feelings about the various discriminations.
Hopefully we'll be able to actually get a few people to write on it; the worst that could happen is if it gets completely ignored, but we can still use that in our presentation I suppose.
We have to get the silhouettes up by friday so there is some time before the due date for them to accumulate responses.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
March 3 daily notes
It seems I forgot last week's notes.
Well I need to not let that happen again...
This week I got my next project assignment: a group project to create a piece that's political in nature. Unfortunately I was absent last wednesday but luckily nothing important happened in that time. We watched some videos on people who have created politically charged works, such as Cai Guo-Qiang, an artist who works with gunpowder for his artwork, and who enjoys the uncontrollable nature of the medium. another artist we looked at was Krysztof Wodiczka, who filmed people talking about crime, and how they were affected (such as people who lost their loved ones to violence, criminals telling their stories, people who were raped/abused/etc., and he projected them onto buildings in cities that were iconic for the area, and included a speaker setup to allow everyone to hear their stories being told.
Another Artist we looked at was the one who created the Vietnam Memorial, and the story of how the piece was hotly contested and how she had to fight to get it created as per her idea. I had never realized that the creation of that monument was so controversial, and It really helped me get an idea of the sort of forces that often support and contest political works, especially ones that do not glorify an idea or concept such as war or patriotism.
We formed groups and my group is going to be working with an idea for Environment. Perhaps something to do with recycling, perhaps something to do with the way we live nowadays... we don't really have any ideas yet.
Well I need to not let that happen again...
This week I got my next project assignment: a group project to create a piece that's political in nature. Unfortunately I was absent last wednesday but luckily nothing important happened in that time. We watched some videos on people who have created politically charged works, such as Cai Guo-Qiang, an artist who works with gunpowder for his artwork, and who enjoys the uncontrollable nature of the medium. another artist we looked at was Krysztof Wodiczka, who filmed people talking about crime, and how they were affected (such as people who lost their loved ones to violence, criminals telling their stories, people who were raped/abused/etc., and he projected them onto buildings in cities that were iconic for the area, and included a speaker setup to allow everyone to hear their stories being told.
Another Artist we looked at was the one who created the Vietnam Memorial, and the story of how the piece was hotly contested and how she had to fight to get it created as per her idea. I had never realized that the creation of that monument was so controversial, and It really helped me get an idea of the sort of forces that often support and contest political works, especially ones that do not glorify an idea or concept such as war or patriotism.
We formed groups and my group is going to be working with an idea for Environment. Perhaps something to do with recycling, perhaps something to do with the way we live nowadays... we don't really have any ideas yet.
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