Sunday, February 1, 2009
alix pearlstein artist lecture
Alix's lecture was the first artist lecture I have attended at VCU, so I didn't really know what to expect. I believe that she was very well spoken and had some really good base ideas to build her work on. I am new to the whole aspect of understanding performing art, so I was a bit confused while viewing her work. I personally thought that it looked quite amateur and I was not wowed or moved. I think since I am new to this type of art, I don't understand it, thus I do not necessarily like it. Everything in the videos just seemed too simple compared to her explanation about her work. I thought that her later work was much better than her earlier work, as it got a little more intricate with the overall scene and camera movements. One thing that really bugged me though was the fact that you could see the camera people at numerous times during the videos. I just think that looks bad and it seems more like a mistake than an intended part of the scene. I believe I need more exposure to this type of art, and then maybe I can appreciate it more.
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Its funny how even when something is intentional it can seem unintetional to someone viewing it. If you are interested in performance art( or at least understanding) I recommend looking around more in the Library or on line. It is a hard thing to grasp sometimes and largely has a firm conceptual basis...which is to say a tad bid cerebral. However, there are things in all art forms that beg consideration, if not for that particular medium but for you own. Did you find her lecture interesting in terms of the concepts she was talking about? Or moreso hearing about the evolution of her work?
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I found her concepts very interesting, I just didn't think that her work showed me what I had hoped to see to back up her ideas. The evolution of her work was not what interested me as much, as every artist will evolve in their own style at some point and time.
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