Body as a Subject

To be honest, i feel like this project im the least clear on. what the hell is the body? how do express such a thing that interpreted in so many ways, obviously you can express the human body in a human like figurine but thats a cop out, especially in regards to this class. how can you challenge the body and what it means, what it feels. In class today we watched the art 21 of Tim Hawkinson and Yinka Shonibare; i really wish we would have watched these EARLIER! they were super sick and gave a really interesting perspective of the human body and not really what it looks like or what it means but what it feels, what its subjected to, how it reacts, it would have made a killer introduction to the project, really awesome film erin!

Tim hawkinson reminded me of a star trekie type of guy, super into technology and our interaction with it. Almost all of his pieces are technologically advanced yet he chooses not do really plan a lot before doing he says in the film which was cool but seemed un-practical. The first piece self portrait had cut out pieces of his race attached to pistons and electrical "rotators" (haha sounds official...) moving his face almost in an emotional way, but not really, more in a confused what the fuck is wrong with you face. The best part is the way the face movements are controlled, they are hooked up t a black and white tv with light receptors that interact with the light levels moving his face... to me that was just like the exploration of the idea of mass media and television and how we just suck it in.. subconsciously.. its absurd to think about really and the people we've become.

In another one of his pieces he uses timed circuit boards and pressurized hoses to created a musical effect of squirting and dripping water into buckets with pie crusts in the bottom to amplify the sound. the hoses were twisted and tangled and all over, this stuck out to me and i had to just criticize cuz that's just what i felt like doing. he totally could have organized the hoses in a more interesting way... make a big ass octopus i don't care, i feel like it had more potential. with that said it was really awesome and i really like the idea of controlling rain drops! Check out super organ and other stuff below on a previous post a couple weeks ago.