Today in lecture we covered a ton of artists very briefly, giving us what seemed to be almost an overview of the many ways artists tackle the idea of "Art and life" as intersecting parts, rather than separate entities. Out of the many artists covered today, my favorites were the works of Chris Burden, Kenji Yanobe, as well as the strange works of Alan Kaprow. Along with these artists, we revisited "Sam" Hsieh, focusing on two of his pieces, one of which involved him not going indoors for a year in New York City, the other involving himself and another artist, Montano, being attached by an 8 foot rope for a year, not
touching each other, and never being in separate rooms. Although i find the presentation on Hsieh's works, or rather, his lack of presentation, to be fairly boring, I take his pieces to be incredibly fascinating and mysterious, the mysteriousness being half of the interest. We finished class by watching clips from Louie Psihoyos' The Cove, a documentary shedding light on the horrifying slaughter of dolphins in a small cove in Taijii Japan. We examined this film form an artistic standpoint, highlighting how the filmmaker had to artistically utilize his available resources under circumstances that seemed to make his task impossible.
I thought the broad spectrum of works covered in todays lecture was fitting for out last lecture, and seemed to sort of tie a knot quite well.
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