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Durational Performance: Repetition, 2022

For this project, I was interested in using repetition to explore a meditative state. I lost track of the minute--which quickly turned to three--as I watched paint pool in varying opacities. I wanted to allow mistakes and unevenness. At times, my hand lost the pattern of the grid. The unpredictable end result became a part of this meditative process, a reminder to call in a lot of ease--a tenderness I believe we could all use as the semester winds down. Lastly, here I am reminded that "repetition is a form of change." While I can resist routine, favoring a little controlled chaos, I must remember that no single effort is ever the same as the last, and that often it is by staying true that we may continue to evolve into greater and greater versions of ourselves.

“The Comfy”by Malia Spencer

It’s the end of the semester, and I’m quite tired.

I love art, but I’m so tired.

When I’m tired I like to go home and snuggle in my Comfy!

When I’m sad… I snuggle in my Comfy.

When I’m sick… I snuggle in my Comfy.

Getting in the shower to be renewed - and just feeling weighed down by what makes you comfortable. However silly, it’s relatable … we all know what mentally this spot feels like , even if we don’t actually perform this act.

What separates everyday performance art? Performing acts of grief, depression, happiness, and love all look so different.

Thinking of a performance in 1 minute, I almost went mad - so many possibilities of things to do. However that is where my comfort lies a lot of the time - talking , saying a lot. What if I just make myself more miserable on the outside? Then theres some kind of sense that whats on the inside will just be better than sopping wet clothes in the cold.

*I recommend watching this with headphones, so you can hear the white noise, as well.

Forced to Look

Everyone has heard the phrase, “Eyes are the window to the soul.” Therefore in this piece, I wanted the focus of the performance to be on the eyes as if we were staring at each other for one minute straight. Staring often makes one uncomfortable like you’re being judged in some way or another. However, looking into someone’s eyes can tell you a lot about them like the quote above mentions.

Project 3 - Supercut

Dumpster Fire

Artist Statement: 

Originally, for this project I wanted to take cuts from my favorite Netflix show, Bojack Horseman of Bojack saying certain phrases. However, looking at a lot of my other work in this class and others, I noticed I tend to choose easy subjects that are not a challenge to work on, things that I know I can make look good or finish without any serious complications. I focus on silly, light-hearted subjects… things that the world could probably live without. 

Something the world could live without but had to deal with anyways? The pandemic. 2020. Quarantining. I know that videos encompassing 2020-21 are out there, but we were given a supercut, 1 minute limit challenge. I decided to find clips from news videos of challenges and issue from 2020 as I could, and fit as many as I could into this project. Although I failed to keep my video to a minute (and ten seconds), I found it challenging to narrow it down to just that. I took out at least 5 other major events from 2020, and I was still sitting at a 1 minute and 45 second video. For context though, I started with around 6 minutes of recorded clips. All that being said, here we are, 2 years after that dumpster fire of a year started. Here’s a look back on what we went through. 

Trigger warnings: suffocation, stalking, enclosed spaces, wildfires, snakes, and spiders

I decided to look up the top ten fears people have, as well as base some of these clips off of my own fears and my friends fears. At first I was originally planning to have creepy music with it or some white noise, but after watching the video with the original clips sounds I preferred it without the music. Having sound at the beginning and then kind of abruptly going silent made it more jarring, especially when it came to the clips where you’d expect sound. I also liked the title at the end, because again it was more surreal and jarring that way. I definitely don’t recommend watching if you have some of these fears, I’m not trying to cause anxiety or panic attacks or anything, just wanted to provide a goosebump kind of feeling. I’ve always been fascinated with what goes bump in the night and fear and I have a very peculiar relationship; I definitely think people don’t realize that adrenaline junkies like me can still have fears too.

Credit to the original videos creators (not in any particular order):

Fear of Snakes: https://www.pexels.com/video/snake-crawling-on-a-ceramic-head-bust-8458572/

Fear of spiders: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-spider-building-a-web-5645597/

Fear of disease/sickness: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-young-cancer-patient-in-the-hospital-6011520/

Claustrophobia: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-woman-trapped-inside-a-cardboard-box-8458598/

Fear of suffocation: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-covered-with-plastic-6894132/

Fear of being stalked/followed: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-walking-in-the-dark-5582584/

Driving phobia: https://www.pexels.com/video/roadtrip-at-night-856148/

Fear of fire: https://www.pexels.com/video/wildfire-on-the-mountain-7543653/

SMILE

project 3: one minute supercut

2022

*potential trigger warning*: may feel uncomfortable if you’ve been subjected to narcissistic behavior and abuse

artist’s statement

Technical Exercise 3: Music Video

Warning *Sensitive Language*