Class Date: April 13, 2011
In class today we were introduced to an assignment that hasn't been like any other one we have recently seen. Jillian Werning was the first artist we looked at and her works of art included a "sixty minute assignment". She took police men and women and had them sit in a gallery for 60 straight minutes. This assignment starts out as initial stillness, but moves to fidgeting as the minutes progress. I would never view this is art because it is different than what I have normally thought art to be. This work is about the idea of control. She looks at an observation and figures out what to do based on that.
Another artist we looked at was Vanessa Becekhoff. He arts of work were similar in that she took humans and made them still by looking like a statue of some sort. One piece of work was when she white washed females and had them lay on pedestals to make them look like they were actually statues. This was very interesting to me and couldn't believe the self control these females had while sitting for the extended period of time. These two views of art were new to me, but very interesting. I couldn't imagine being a part of something like this and having to sit still for over an hour. I give these individuals a lot of credit for their self-control to be able to do that.
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