The Rainbow Serpent by Zzilla, 361 University Avenue Nuit Blanche is an annual sunrise to sunset arts festival that happens in downtown Toronto. It transforms the city into a never ending supply of art installations from all mediums; paintings, sculptures, dances, live action, digital media and much more. These events can range from being just an observation piece (following Brecht’s theories) to full audience interaction and immersion (following Artaud). The art installation that we saw at Nuit Blanche was called the Rainbow Serpent. The Rainbow Serpent was created by the artist Zzilla whose work is inspired by the environment. This specific installation falls under the category of audience interaction. The audience was presented with an …show more content…
The Rainbow Serpent installation needed the spectator to not only observe but also interact with their cell phone via an application that would further the immersiveness of the installation. Therefore, this would go alongside with Artaud’s theory that there should be as little space between the audience and the art, “It is in order to attack the spectator’s sensibility on all sides that we advocate a revolving spectacle which, instead of making the stage and auditorium two closed worlds, without possible communication, spreads its visual and sonorous outbursts over the entire mass of the spectators” (Antonin Artaud, Letters on Cruelty pg. 89). When you open the application on your smartphone, the earth would appear in the middle of the pond. As time progresses, we would see the earth being destroyed by humanity. After the Earth is destroyed the Rainbow Serpent appears from the centre of the pond, to save us from our inevitable death. Therefore, the audience needed to forgo distance and use the application to get the full experience of the …show more content…
He says “it is cruelty that cements matter together, cruelty that molds the features of the created world.” (Antonin Artaud, Letters on Cruelty pg. 84). No one likes to be reminded that we are slowly destroying our world, but that’s exactly what this installation does. It can be considered cruel because it makes people feel uncomfortable to think about. However, the artist Zzilla believes that humanity needs to feel the unformortableness this installation causes, in order to truly feel the impact. Artaud reiterates this aspect by saying “Mainstream art, and the society we live in, “alienates” us from our true selves. It removes us from both our immediate experience and desire” (PowerPoint, Week 3). It was his belief that emotions, desires and feelings couldn't be translated into language, but could only be revealed by gestures. Therefore, experiences outweigh spoken
This book was also one of my first encounters with an important truth of art: that your work is powerful not because you convey a new emotion to the audience, but because you tap into an emotion the audience already feels but can't express.
Though people can look into color and composition, others can still even look into the source of the art itself. Cole goes deeper, delving into the source of the art, looking in particular into the idea of cultural appropriation and the view a person can give others. Though it is good for people to be exposed to different opinions of a group or an object, sometimes people can find it difficult to tell the difference between the reality and the art itself. Sometimes art can be so powerful that its message stays and impacts its audience to the point where the viewer’s image of the subject of the art changes entirely. Cole brings up an important question about art, however. Art has become some kind of media for spreading awareness and even wisdom at times, but in reality, “there is also the question of what the photograph is for, what role it plays within the economic circulation of images” (973). Cole might even be implying that Nussbaum’s advertisement can sometimes be the point of some media, and that sometimes the different genres of art can just be to make someone with a particular interest happy. One more point that Cole makes is that “[a]rt is always difficult, but it is especially difficult when it comes to telling other people’s stories.” (974) Truthfully, awareness and other like-concepts are difficult to keep going when a person or a group is not directly involved.
...re as same as the audience use in their everyday life. Easily connecting to the audience, with visual, audio and performer’s performance” one can imagine himself/herself in performer’s shoes.
What is ‘Art’? Does the term describe a tangible object, experiential event, process, technique, medium, or creative skill? Does it imply attractive decoration, pleasant arrangement, and sound financial investment - or can art provoke, be unattractive, make people uncomfortable, and be fleeting? Today, Art is subjective, open to interpretation and encompasses the spectrum of the visual, literary, dance, and musical humanities - often overlapping one another. As such, Art and its practice can be all of the above and more. Post World War II, Modernist theories were waning and a general dissatisfaction was building in the United States and other westernized countries that ultimately led up to the cultural and social revolution of the 1960’s. The period also parallels a rise in relative wealth and subsequent mass consumption of commodities, education, and cultural activities within all the socioeconomic classes. Personal expression became acceptable and art practice exploded to include multiple fields of activity that Rosalind Krauss likens to “an extraordinary practice in elasticity”. Interest in ecology, performance, process, alternative materials, a loosening of social mores and experimentation with altered states of reality contributed to the rise of what is now known amply as Postmodernism. Civil rights, the anti-war movement, rise of feminism, and a political movement left of center created egalitarian entrances for many into various fields of study including Art. Nevertheless, similar to the current state of Western Civilization, not everyone appreciates an open multiplicity of voices often differing in viewpoints from safer, more conservative ones. It is in this context that artists Robert Smithson and Richard Serra bega...
On the App. by Jenna Wortham, shows readers how technology has improved today’s society, as well as how it will continue to improve our lives and build our relationships with others as we cannot be with them at times in our lives. In the article she said “this incredible instrument, our voice, communicates the range of human emotion” (Turkle 388). This quote depicts how Turkle feels about talking face-to-face, she believes it is necessary and is something that is important to do.
Art is a language of its own and with out he proper understanding, people are like expression goes “left on the outside looking in”. In other words, people without the proper understanding of art, technique and form as well as other elements can’t appreciate a work of art as much as when you understand why an artist painted in the way they did and what they are trying to get across to his audience. Despite artists attempts to try and make their works as viewer friendly as possible, without the understanding and knowledge gained from an art class as this one people will never fully understand the a work of art as it is meant to be.
Furthermore, Sullivan's exploration of non-verbal forms of communication offers valuable insights into the nature of human expression and the ways in which individuals interact with their environment. By highlighting the power of music, art, and gesture as vehicles for conveying complex emotions and ideas, Sullivan invites us to reconsider the role of aesthetics in shaping our perceptions of the world. His assertion that these wordless forms of expression provide a more direct conduit to the depths of human consciousness challenges us to rethink established dichotomies between language and emotion, rationality and intuition. Through a deeper appreciation of non-verbal communication, individuals can cultivate a more nuanced understanding of themselves and others, fostering empathy, connection, and mutual understanding. Moreover, Sullivan's insights have profound implications for the fields of art and culture, prompting artists and cultural practitioners to explore new modes of expression that transcend linguistic
According to Webster’s Dictionary, art is “human expression of objects by painting, etc” (10). The words “human experience” adds meaning to art. Artists reveal their inner thoughts and feelings through their work. When we study a painting by Salvador Dali, the strange objects and the surrealist background portrays the eccentricity of the painter. Some ideas cannot be explained verbally. They can only be shown via a medium. We can get across what is in our minds or our hearts by a stroke of a brush, a drop of paint, a row of words, or something else. But to express ourselves, we do not need to limit what we call art.
In a sense, the audience becomes the actor upon “his” stage as the ,“...work does not exist without the viewer there to actually take part”(http://www.aestheticamagazine.com). If I were ever able to visit the installation, I can just imagine myself getting lost in my own thoughts and let the illusion consume my mind. Doug Wheeler captivates his viewers within an artwork, which I find innovative and unique in the art world. By creating an interactive installation it really allows the viewer to alter their own reality and let one's mind to experience infinite
It can be written in the text form of literature and poetry, enacted in the form of music and theatre, and drawn on a canvas through art and sculpture. This concept is illustrated in, “The Cultural Importance of the Arts.” Susan Langer was a notable 20th century American philosopher who mainly focused her work on artistic expression and linguistic analysis. Her purpose for writing this argument is to explain how these different forms of art are all essential to the developmental growth of human culture and how if art ceases to exist, then society will “give itself up to formless emotion (Langer).” Langer also believes that the primary function of art should be to “objectify feeling so we can contemplate and understand it (Langer).” She begins
Art is not useless as Oscar Wilde stated; nor is it the death of logic by emotion as Plato supposed. Art is an activist trying to inform and shape the social consciousness. Art by nature is critical and questions how the world is perceived. These questions are pivotal in creating change within society. The Armory Show, a major turning point in American art, for example, was inspired by shifting perceptions of the aesthetic and a stirring toward modernity. The Armory Show was an artistic rebellion against the juries, prizes, and restricted exhibitions that excluded unacademic and yet t...
The beauty of a portrait, the adventure of a saga, the delicacy of a porcelain vase, the emotion of a symphony – all forms of art, all forms of expression. Art, as Oscar Wilde explains it, is the “most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known” (Wilde, The Soul of a Man Under Socialism). Art allows one to express themselves through a thousand mediums, using all five senses. It allows words that are not meant to be spoken, to be expressed, and ideas not meant to be thought, imagined. Perhaps the most prevalent form of art in today's society is literature, as is the most direct form of art.
The mind creates the emotions and ideals responsible for art. The brain is capable of imagining glorious things, and art is the physical manifestation of these ideals. These ideals are usually intense emotions with aesthetic power (Wilson, 220). Art organizes these emotions in a matter that can easily express the ideals to...
Art uses beauty, emotion, and drama to influence the audience into expressing their feelings. R.G. Collingwood argues that art is not an object that you can fabricate, it is the expression of emotion in your mind. Giving an expression individualizes it, which rather than describing the emotion in words, the expression is a feature of the statement itself. This means that art shouldn’t have any limits because expression wouldn’t be able to differentiate itself from others. Art is expression, it is important because we need to able to recognize what our feelings are therapeutic. Expression is needed to make art because it gives it a unique sense to it and gives people different emotions based on that expression. Collingwood is right to think that art is expression.