Jocelynne Farfan

I don’t think this exercise changed my discomfort regarding performance art.  Watching other people’s videos will likely be an uncomfortable experience for me.  However, I did appreciate taking the time to really understand what it is that I have never enjoyed about performance art.  Perhaps by understanding what I don’t enjoy will allow me to ultimately get past it and come to appreciate performance art more.

Even though I work in film and commercials I still enjoy putting together all the moving parts of a project.. 

Art Project 4: One Minute Performance: Self Portrait

Artist Statement

My performance represents the never-ending pursuit of numbing as stress relief. Life should not be so stressful that we need these vices, even the mundane ones such as adult coloring. I have a stack of the same coloring pages, and spent about 30 minutes coloring one sheet of paper. I sped up the video to fit within the ~1 performance time limit. The time could have been used to read textbooks or clean my house, but instead I blasted music, drank coffee and didn’t give a crap. If I was performing this for an audience without a time limit, I would color the whole stack of prints and crumple each one after completing it. Productivity is a human construct that has no real meaning.

In deciding what I really wanted to hone in on for this project I decided to draw a figure. Figure drawing is something I am fascinated with. Though I am not much good at it yet I want to continue to work on this practice until I make it perfect. As they say “practice makes perfect” and continuing to work on this will be great at expanding my art forms. I really wanted to focus on the specific shapes that make up the body in this figure. Thinking of the circles, ovals, rectangles, and oblong that piece together little details. Once those things are added then details and connections can be formed. As for the song I chose to add to the background, I wanted something that was peaceful, scenic yet exciting. That’s when I landed on this song by Christian Löffler named “Haul”. I feel like it adds a nice compliment to the figure and creates a beautiful background. 

My camera decided to crash on me and so I had to use my phone which had a broken speaker so the sound was REALLY bad. Doing a performance video with this angle was somewhat in my comfort zone; I don’t like being in the front of the camera and I found an old embroidery project so I decided to “perform” that. The final piece has an antique jewelry chain dangling from her ear. Luckily, the jewelry piece is able to move freely off of the hoop to provide the piece a more 3D effect.

Project 4 Failure

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Supercut: Hero

music by max ablitzer

Doctor who is a show that has been running since 1963 (with a short intermission). It has touched many peoples lives over that long time period, and continues to do so. It was an integral part of my childhood and many others. It teaches lesson, morality, emotional maturity and development, how to be silly, how to be serious, and how to be brave. This all sounds a little dramatic but there are many parts of who I am today and my worldview that I can attribute to this show and its presence during my formative years. Not only is this show a great love of mine, but media itself is so important and plays a big role in children’s development, and the subject matter and lessons continue to be revered by people well into their adult hood.

In considering what I wanted to do for this project, I seemed to be super drawn to adding the imagery of flowers into this in some way. I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to depict them or what message I wanted to send so I did some research on some key words, flowers, life, nature. After doing this my ideas expanded, and I remembered a song that is dear to my heart for many reasons that I wanted to depict in this project as well. This song from Porter Robinson named Lifespan shares an instrumental of the waves of life in excitement and somber. This beautiful soundtrack makes a perfect background for the floral display of this project. Displaying the life and beauty of flowers and their birth was the goal. So, the final product of this piece shares a compilation of flowers growth and existence focusing on the beauty of each specific flower. The name of this project is derived partly from the song as it is in an album called Nurture by Porter Robinson, additionally the “nature” part being self-explanatory pointing toward flowers.

Fear of isolation/plane crash: https://www.pexels.com/video/birds-eye-view-of-crashing-waves-on-the-rock-8438341/