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Assessment 2 final

Part 2

-’DO’

a conversation with my mum

Assessment 2 final

-part 1

‘NOWHERE’

First idea came to my brain after handing the poster about assessment two is to using same elements. When i review my poster, i thought of using that kind of collage form, to use Chinese characters, or keep the form of a poster. But i chose to us my own images as that ‘same’ elements.

To use the photos of me to create a work about Rebellion is not easy, that’s the truth for me. Just like i said in my last statement, i am a person with very limited knowledge and opinions about those ‘big’ topics. As a student, what i want to make comments of must be the endless exams and the marks that i’ll get.

The idea of screen is inspired by Sun Xun, a Chinses artist, he is having an exhibition in MCA now and i visited it. I saw the screens that has Chinses paintings on it and i found that that’s the thing that i can relate.

Appendix 1: https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/exhibitions/sun-xun/

i have learned Chinese painting when i was little, so i painted on the inner pages of my screen. The first thing that I painted is Guzheng, which is an ancient Chinese instrument. I used to play it for 6 years and I gave up. That’s not the thing that i want to do, i realised that after i went to my junior school, so i ended the class and kept drawing from that time.

The very initial idea of the screen was to put what that evaluated me before on the inner page.

i used wanna put them on the ‘windows’ of me and make them like pop up books.

Appendix 2-1: Windows:

https://www.nowness.com/series/constructed-views/1000-windows-daniel-thissen-lima

(i have explained in my previous post)

2-2: pop up books tutorial:

https://youtu.be/rvCJsCQp0Xc

(i don’t want to make flat works)

Everything seems very prepared for this assessment, but i was confused. I always think ART is about personal experiences, it is about personal cognitions, but in this work, it seems i don’t have that clue, that clue can make this work is not only about complaints and unsatisfied pieces.

I always want to make works that can relate to rebellion, but after that complaints i made about the things that i don’t satisfied with, what should i do?

I have to find that clue. I have to grab the core of this work.

What is the ‘ART’? Then this question jumped out again.

i really thought this word. From my perspective, i would like to see ‘ART’ as a form to expressing the thoughts of the creators, it is a way that the creators use to deliver the message they want to say.

It is about communication, i found.

Then i decided to add some sounds to my work: i recorded a video of me doing the outside covers of my screen, after that, i talked to my mum (by Wechat call) about my previous study life.

This conversation with my mum really changed my work.

I summarised this conversation with the word ‘DO’.

Instead of viewing these unsatisfactory pieces as rebellion, to make change, to find the way out is the real rebellion i want to say in this work. so i covered the page with Guzheng by using a new page that has the ‘real rebellion’ on it.

Furthermore, i changed the pop-up part to the word ‘DO’, which is the title of the second part of my work and the ‘real rebellion’ i want to deliver to the audience viewing this work.

Assessment 2 process

just found the printing shop mixed up my requests..i wanted to print plain stickers but they put my photo to the side that should be ripped off..

Assessment 2 process

class activity of week 8

if there is someone who can use cash notes as art work why can‘t i use my stuffs as an ART work？

(all of my thought above

ADAD assessment 2

process-1

how can i relate rebellion with my very own experiences? i have been thinking about this question since assessment 1.

As a student who had gone through 11(+3) years of Chinese education system, my childhood, my previous life almost all have relations with exams and marks.

We even have different marking symbols to show the grades of homework, exams, exam exercise books, question books......

In China, 100 means a full mark, 60 means you have passed the exam (not really). I have to say that I am a sort of bad or middle student, because I only got high marks in certain exams, however, there are 9 compulsory classes before 11th grade, which means every Chinese students have to do a exam of 9 or 9+ classes.

When i laid on my bed, thinking about ‘rebellion’ , exams just jumped out. Then I decided to do it, that’s a simple process.

Constructed Views: 1000 Windows - A drone-shot portrait of tower block living in Lima

https://www.nowness.com/series/constructed-views/1000-windows-daniel-thissen-lima

finally got something

how these windows relate to me, my experiences?

梁楷Liang Kai （南宋）

仇英Qiu Ying

The reason why i changed to my very first idea is that i found that drag queen is actually a hard topic to illustrate, and it contians representional meanings. Not only to some communities but also for the general environment that everyone in. As a person who have very limited knowledge to deeper topics, i tend to do something that i can relate to, which means me, myself and the things happened to me or around me are my ‘tool’ to find out what should i do when i do ‘ART’. The inspiration of this poster came from one of my childhood stories: my mom told me that if I don’t listen to her and try to look through my legs, which is a naughty behaviour in her eyes, a monster will come to me. It’s an obviously ‘mom story’ but i was truly terrified by that monster when i was little.

I was thinking about the outcomes what if i didn’t listen to her, so i used my head from my childhood old photo. I’d like to make a time transfer of it then I added the legs of current me, in pajama pants.

Honestly i did this poster is not to ‘against’ my mom, although ‘against’ seems always has some sort of relations to the whole topic ‘REBELLION’ (and i cannot find an appropriate word to express the whole idea of my work cuz my English doesn’t allow me to), i want to against the world that always make obligations to people, the community that put weird rules on our bodies.

How to be rebel?

How can the rebellion strong enough to express ‘contemporary art’?

Those two questions made me start to think about why ‘ART’ always looks crazy nowadays. (I don’t have any offensive meaning to every artist) If the unusual, different and special view of things have less acceptance, then why more and more people label their differences as ‘ART’?

Art work in my eyes are just something that can express the ideas of some particular topics of the person who did the work. It can be interesting, can be special, can be everything, but art is just part of the life.