"Perf-Art - Evidence of an Event."

Dominic and I are working on our creative idea that we need to pitch to the class. Well, it's Dom's idea. He's been thinking of it for a while now and for this task him and I are working in a pair, and so I am now thankfully in on it. I say thankfully because I think it's a fantastic idea.

To put it very basically, it's combining performance and art, and just being silly we combined the two words and came up with "Perf-Art". We really got a good little laugh out of that because of how it sounds when it's said out aloud. Perfart. A few puns have been made since!

The idea (I hope I can capture this well enough in words!) is...
A few cubicles, perhaps 3m by 3m each, and one artist/performer goes into each one completely alone, with absolutely no-one watching. Music, or a stimulus of choice, (or perhaps an assigned piece, so each performer or artist in their respective cubicle is listening to the same thing) is played and the artist with paintbrush in hand and paint accessable, moves/dances/performs allowing the paint to be splashed and painted and thrown and placed on the walls, roof, body and anywhere. The artist performs to evoke the emotion being experienced, and paints it to evoke a permanent emotion for all to see. The comparison between the different outcomes from each artist would be incredibly interesting.

We discussed the idea of filming the performance, so that whilst no-one is watching the performer (allowing them to express their emotion privately and in whatever way they see fit) there is a visual presentation of what took place in that room, so that when the viewers see the final outcome of that experience, there is evidence of that event.

Three negative aspects of the idea that we came up with during the Reverse Brainstorming is that;
- There could be too much going on, with the music, the performing, the painting, the filming. It could be too much for viewers/the audience to take in.
- Viewing accessibility could get complicated. Ideal viewing would mean one person in the room at a time, in order to completely take in what the performer was feeling and trying to express. If multiple people go in there could be noise and it's possible the music could be overcome.
- There would almost definitely be transportation issues. Several big, possibly glass, rooms.

But the positive things we thought of during good old traditional positive Brainstorming!
- It would be an experience for both the performer and the viewer, not one or the other.
- It is "Evidence of an event." As said by David.
- It gives an explanation for the final outcome. Unlike many artworks that cause us as viewers to ask many questions, it will explain what was done where, what the artist was listening to at the time something was done, how the artist looked while doing a part of the artwork. This will all be shown in the footage of the performance.

I'm very excited to continue working on this idea. I love it, and I know that this doesn't have to become a reality, but I really hope that one day it does.

Self Portrait.

I created a self portrait for one of my classes. It was an assesment task, my first ever one at university. And so with a limited amount of PhotoShop practice I think I did sufficiently well.
Dom suggested I should put it up on my blog and I agreed.
It's a bit weird and I had no idea how it'd turn out, but I love it. It's something new and cool to look at. I hope anyway.

Dancing Mobile Phone, hmm?

Today a few of us were given the task to create some sort of new innovative idea. But not just any idea. OOooooh no, there was a bit of criteria that needed to be covered. Ie. We had to somehow combine the ideas of mobile phones and dance.
Woooww.

At first our group was silent. We heard chatter from all over the room of other ideas blossoming and forming, but we were a bit stumped.
And then we started rolling.

None of the ideas we came up with were very 'helpful' or useful as such, but just a bunch of fun. Which I think is fine.

Our final idea though was to have a program, perhaps similar to the iPhone app's, which when switched on can allow the phone to 'listen' to music or sound being played in the background, and sense the movements that you're making (presumably while dancing!) This then connects with Facebook or Twitter or some sort of interactive site like that, and changes your status accordingly to let other users on the site know whether you're dancing awesomely and in time, or utterly drunk and not with the beat at all.

As I said, it's just a bit of fun.

"Audrey-Lee Rizzato CANNOT DANCE."

What I am, and what I'm in to.

I've mentioned before that theatre is probably what I'd like to be involved in most, out of everything. So when asked "What type of practitioner are you?" I suppose that I'd say... actor? Actress...

I don't know. I'm a 'want to be' practitioner I guess. I haven't done enough of anything to be able to say I'm anything. But a student. I'm currently just learning as much as I can about anything I can.

So I guess that means I aspire to be an actress. Or a lighting designer. Or a set designer. Or a director. Or a theatre wizz kid. Haha, yeahh. I wish.

And the themes that I'm into; dramatic. Anything over the top and exaggerated. In theatre anyway. And art. If it's colourful I like it to be FULL OF COLOUR, if it's angry I want it to be FURIOUS. If there's any sort of set or costume or makeup, it must either be very big and over the top and out there, or absolutely non existant.
That's the type of thing I'm into anyway.



SELF BRANDING

I was playing around with a few fonts and simple images, trying to come up with a sort of brand for myself as a practitioner. A self branding exercise you'd call it.

Trialling different fonts.



Playing around with possible final brands.

The Mood Board

As a very very verrrry basic photoshop user, I had a lot of fun making this; a mood board! Filled with colour and exaggeration for a performance in a magnificent theatre!

My terrible memory.

The other day in our tute we needed to find a link to something we found awesome. Something we loved and really felt worthy of blogging. I knew exactly what I wanted to post. Ages ago I saw this video clip, and although it is not so much the 'performing' aspect of it that I love, I think it's brilliant. But there is absolutely no way I can remember what it's called. It's split screen the whole way through, and the same girl in is both the left screen and the right. It's not too obvious at the beginning, but there's definitely that "OHHH!" moment once you keep watching, because the left half is the scene played from beginning to end, whereas the right half is the exact same scene played backwards. But it just matches up so perfectly.

Anyway, I have tried Googling key words but to no avail. However, whilst on my quest to find this amazing piece of work, I came upon David Bowie's video clip "Life on Mars". Which of course, being a Bowie fan I have seen several (hundred) times, and realised that to me that is just as worthy of posting on this blog entry as any other.

His one eye is permanently dilated, yes? Yes. And so the fact the room he is in is so God damned light causes his two very different sized pupils to be absolutely freaky. Geeeeeniusly beautiful, hahaha! Just that opening scene. Watch it! Go go go!

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MELBOURNE 3000!

www.threethousand.com.au

This is a pretty cool website/blog that shows so many different things going on at the moment. It's like an "awesome things" guide to Melbourne. You can browse this "guide" through different sections using a menu like the image below.


The greatest thing about it, I think, is going to the maps section where marked out on a map of Melbourne is everything contained in the blog.

A few words with Mona, my neighbour in "C & I!"

After chatting with Mona I have learnt of her specialisations; Performance and Visual Art, and how if I enjoy acting then I must definitely try directing. Apparently it's a great thing to experience!

She says to mantain an income whilst on her quest to becoming a theatre practitioner she's going to try taking workshops, and teaching visual art to the younger generation.


I came across the following quote, which I found not only relevent to the course I'm taking, but to the specialisation that both Mona and I are doing as well;

"The future of our nation depends on our ability to create-and to be creative. During the coming decades our most important national resources will be human resources. If our nation is to continue to meet the challenges of the future, today's schools need to develop creative leaders."
-http://www.childdrama.com/why.html