Week 15 - Final Projects Part II

Stills from Robert Herrera's Performance "OCD Ice Cream" which featured spoken monologues of responses of others to the artist's OCD as a child and a set of actions to be performed by audience participants.


Setup




Actions




Aftermath


Lisha Yan, "Untitled, Landscape," mixed media, plastic packages, wooden stretcher bars, 12"x16", 20"x20", 20"x24"; "paintings" created with packages collected by the artist from food she consumed














Yedda Ye's edible silverware and Zihong Lin's edible kitchenware, work based off the use of disposable and/or potentially toxic kitchenware














Stills from Pamela Kwong's performance "Pamonolgues" featuring compulsive crushing of food stuffs along with spoken monologues addressing personal responses to stress






Post-performance, Pamela takes questions






Stills from Boyan Luis Montero's performance in which viewer participants are invited into party-like event, hosted by Boyan's alter-ego, in which "piss" is consumed and considered as part of the larger cycle of food/water/waste.

 






Jiawen Chen's sculpture "Oops I Did It Again" - revisited, addressing issues of food allergies






La La's "Not All Mushrooms Are Created Equal" - Revisited, addressing the relationship of mushrooms and soil toxicity

Week 14 - Final Project Presentations, Part I

This week we shared and discussed students' final projects.


Students pose around Sydney Kaye's (left) "Farm to Table", a kitchen table of growing vegetables, with salads made of ingredients grown in the piece.





The salad contained kale, carrots, tomatoes and basil, all of which are growing inside the table installation.






Viviann Lu's piece utilizes spikes made out of resin and foods that are known to help relieve angina and other heart problems.


Viewed from below and the spikes are meant to represent the sharp pains associated with an attack




Students view and discuss the work.


Jiawen Chen's work in progress - a sculpture about food allergies








Daniel Topka's "Untitled (Wasteland)" utilized the bathroom space in the Fine Arts building, recontextualizing the T.S. Eliot poem Wasteland using vinyl letters on the mirrors on 5 floors of the building.


An interesting alignment of text and space in the 5th floor bathroom


The artist and his work.






Lala Lee's work in progress, "Not All Mushrooms are Created Equal" addresses the concern of soil toxicity of edible mushrooms






Students get a closer look.

For any students needing documentation images of their work, photos taken by Sally have been added to this folder inside the shared student google drive folder.

HOMEWORK

We have one more class session, Tuesday 12/19, which will be devoted to presentation and critique of remaining students' final projects, please see the revised schedule below. All students are expected to attend this class and critique their peers' work regardless of whether or not they have already presented their own.

Remember that you should have an artist statement of 2-5 paragraphs to accompany your work. Please bring enough for the whole class (13 copies).

Also a final reminder that any outstanding blog assignments must absolutely be submitted to your blogs for grading no later than Monday 12/18.

REVISED SCHEDULE for Final Project Presentations:

PRESENTING 12/19 (Tuesday)

• Boyan
• Lisha
• Pamela
• Yedda
• Zihong
• Rob