Aesthetics week 5- Video viewing

VIDEO VIEWING:View the following videos and define what you see as the possible intention of the performance and its meaning for you in your work. POST COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOG BY OCTOBER 10, 2011.

http://www.revelinnewyork.com/noemie (Noemie LaFrance)

Wow I wonder how she began?  I wonder how she got 10,000 people to that pool in Brooklyn.  I wonder how she became the artist she is.  The roof top piece I believe was exploration.  The garage piece, I believe was creating a sence of voyerism, of mystery, watching a drama play out infron of you like a movie.  The stairwell piece seemed to be inspired by design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llBijMDoL7s (Mona Hatoum - Variations on Discord and Divisions (originally 1984)
Not liking what they were reading in the news so they tried to wash it off.  Then the water they used to clean it off killed them.  Ignorance will kill you?

http://vimeo.com/18952957 (Nigel Rolfe - The Rope) after watching, go to this site and see if you understood what he was intending http://vimeo.com/18966117 bound, repetive, the usefullness of being bound,


http://vimeo.com/17973882 (Nigel Rolfe - The Pool)
uncomfortable, waiting to die?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LWC39Ehm4 (Robert Ashley; poet) or select another of his works on youtube.

I was very uncomfortable with watching this.  I had to turn the video off.  Something about his voice, the timing of the video footage, it felt so disconnected to anythin I am comfortable with.  Perhaps that was his point.