"Miss You", Ricky Ochoa, October 8th 2024
Quotes from Widewalls | Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter
1. "As she explained, art represents a way of showing people how you can think, and even though some people think of it as a beautiful wallpaper that you can sell, Yoko Ono rather perceives it as a direct connection with activism. Her style often included 'dematerialization of the art object,' which is a phrase that would only come to use when the art critic Lucy Lippard employed it to talk about the practice of turning away from objects and towards ideas."
2. "Cut Piece was one of the best examples where the visceral presence of the author confronted the tension between exhibitionism and voyeurism, masochism and sadism, between victim and assailant. The piece was lauded as an enactment of the physical vulnerability of women in a world where they are reduced to mere objects for looking at. This groundbreaking artwork is hailed as prophetic of feminist activism and of performance art as a form."
Responses
1. Art is more than just a beautiful image; it communicates ideas and messages that are hard to comprehend with words alone. In the entertainment industry, I don't like how art is used to escape from reality and turn your brain off ever since IPs have been reused again and again for decades. Many things we used to love have become distorted due to reusing the same material and telling the same story. I want to change that aspect and show that Art isn't just something beautiful. It's to navigate what we are feeling right now and improve our lives.
2. Cut Piece challenged everyone on how women are viewed as objects in society. It is alarming, to say the least, due to how men are taught to treat women as a conquest and achievement to show others how successful they are in getting them. It gets worse when, in many YouTube videos on how to talk to women, you have to make the first move and push the partner to date you very fast by acting as someone else to do so. Love becomes a game to win rather than a genuine connection. I never really like rushing into romantic relationships because that sets you up for failure. I love how Yoko Ono confronts the objectification of women and how it reveals the double standards of both women and men.
Quotes from Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo - Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
1. "I do equate that stubbornness and conviction with the same work ethic that my parents filled me with, but to this day, I don’t understand how I never felt that the historical art canon could not be achieved simply because of my ethnicity or color. That was never a blockage for me, psychologically."
2. "That practice takes the form of a workshop, as does much of my performance. So it is difficult for me to distinguish what others might call a more 'polished performance' from a pedagogical practice because for me, they’re one and the same. The workshop, the platform of teaching and learning, is in and of itself the performance. It doesn’t lead to another output or product."
Responses
1. I admire Shaun Leonardo for not letting his ethnicity or color stop him from becoming an artist. Racism usually puts other people down and even gives up on their ambitions because of what they say. I like how he views every human equally and doesn't care about the color of people's skin.
2. Shaun uses his workshop as a performance for his work that stands out from other performances that come from a pedagogical practice. To him, anything could be a performance if you are committed.
Quotes from Khan Academy Performance Art An Introduction webpages
1. "Many people associate performance art with highly publicized controversies over government funding of the arts, censorship, and standards of public decency. Indeed, at its worst, performance art can seem gratuitous, boring or just plain weird. But, at its best, it taps into our most basic shared instincts: our physical and psychological needs for food, shelter, sex, and human interaction; our individual fears and self-consciousness; our concerns about life, the future, and the world we live in. It often forces us to think about issues in a way that can be disturbing and uncomfortable, but it can also make us laugh by calling attention to the absurdities in life and the idiosyncrasies of human behavior."
2. "Acts of violence within the context of art making could also serve as a means for artists in the postwar period to reject state-sponsored wartime propagandistic painting. For example, in the infamous wartime painting by Fujita Tsuguharu, Honorable Death on Attu Island (Attsutō Gyokusai), a violent mass of writhing soldiers form a muddy pile of monotone bodies, forgoing individuality in support of national spirit—an ethos often understood in the West through the pilot who sacrifices his life to maintain the honor of family and country."
Responses
1. Performance Art is often the riskiest form because of how one person exposes ideas to the world with their body and the objects they interact with. Since one person in real time is showing what's happening, it often feels more potent of both disturbance and a reflection of what issues we are facing right now. It is not really my kind of doing since I want to focus more on 2d designs for comics and animation once I have enough money. It's more powerful to me since we can reflect on it safely while also bringing up real-life situations that need reflection.
2. This is interesting yet confusing at the same time. I mean, how could acts of violence within the context of art serve as a rejection of wartime propagandistic paintings? Aren't acts of violence within the context of art itself perpetrating more violence and maybe even glorifying it? I would like to look into that a bit more. I hope it isn't glorifying violence.
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