Soviet Montage with Paskal
Monday, 25 May 2015
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Sunday, 17 May 2015
Shigeyuki Kihara - The Last Taualuga
Shigeyuki Kihara is of Samoan/ Japanese decent and is a contemporary artist and the first New Zealander to hold a solo exhibition at the metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Kihara was born in Samoa and immigrated to New Zealand at the age of 16.
Kihara's self-portrait images in her exhibitions include nudity in provocative poses that portrayed colonial appearance of Polynesian women as sexual objects. Kihara is known as a fa'afafine which is known as the 3rd gender of Samoa. Fa'afafine is a samoan who is physically male gifted but has the spirit of a woman.
The performance piece by Shigeyuki Kihara "The Last Taualuga" draws on the classical samoan siva (dance) of colonialism in Samoa we see from an indigenous perspective.
I really like the use of lighting in this piece of performance art and also the way Shigeyuki has portrayed her concept of the old taualunga. Also the look of using a victorian mourning outfit gives me goosebumps.
Kihara's self-portrait images in her exhibitions include nudity in provocative poses that portrayed colonial appearance of Polynesian women as sexual objects. Kihara is known as a fa'afafine which is known as the 3rd gender of Samoa. Fa'afafine is a samoan who is physically male gifted but has the spirit of a woman.
The performance piece by Shigeyuki Kihara "The Last Taualuga" draws on the classical samoan siva (dance) of colonialism in Samoa we see from an indigenous perspective.
I really like the use of lighting in this piece of performance art and also the way Shigeyuki has portrayed her concept of the old taualunga. Also the look of using a victorian mourning outfit gives me goosebumps.
Moving Image - Artist Surface Research
Tameka Norris Art Must/Should Be Beautiful 2010-11 (Abramovic 1975)
Tameka Jenean Norris who is also known as Meka Jean (mynameisnotshorty) is a visual and performing artist born in Guam. Norris did a remake of Abramovic's 1975 piece called "Art must be beautiful". Tameka uses painting, video, photography, music and performance to explore the ideas and internal drives of influences that shape her identity.
Norris attended the UCLA School of Art and Architecture, Yale School of Art.
She pursued her art through music, The artist creates her own music videos full of hip hop posturing songs about her own identity as an artist and an African-american woman.
Meka Jean: Too Good For You music video
Monday, 11 May 2015
Deadly SINS - Moving Image
Snapshot
Firehosing
Motorzoom
Upstanding
Jogging
Head hunting
Backlighting
Portrait
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