week 8

I really enjoyed hearing from Tannaz because not only was her work extremely interesting but she is also the first person who we have heard from that showed their ethnicity in their work. She was proud to show aspects of where she is from in her artwork and I find that is something that is very strong. I feel this way because she is putting herself out there for a chance to be getting more negative feed back and maybe even attacks against her personally. I think it makes her work more interesting and unique, I also like the fact that she puts herself into her artwork in general. There was the piece of artwork where she reenacted the man who sewed his eyes and mouth shut, it is cool to me that she looks at something like this and makes it part of her work. I also respect the fact that she looks at something so intense like that photo and as she said would keep it put up where she sees it regularly until it no longer has meaning to her anymore. This, along with other ideas that she shared was all very different and it was interesting hearing about them, I liked her opinion of what a self-portrait is. She was saying that a self-portrait is changing the understanding of how you exist by becoming objective. It is like a way to self examine. A couple of the works that I really enjoyed were seeing was her work of Go On and Save Me along with her work I Forgot. Both of these are filled with multiple ways of effecting the way someone ma feel after viewing them. When she explained the I Forgot piece when I saw it, I thought, I forgot to talk to the leasing office again because my mom is always telling me to, but when she mentioned about the holocaust my thoughts of I Forgot completely changed. I think that I was able to understand these works more than her others that were more science fiction looking and futuristic.

Reading the conversation between Barbara and Suzi Gablik was very interesting to me because I can relate to what Barbara feels art is. She is art everywhere and in everything pretty much, that is how I think of art. I like that she says that art should not be based on strictly beauty, also that art has never left the everyday world. I can find a connection to Tannaz’s art in this because I feel that her art is connected to the everyday world. Her art has to do with what is going on in the world like her work about the Persian flag, or even what has to do with the body and reactions felt from her installations. I think that her work has a lot to do with giving value meaning as well. Tannaz even said herself that most of her work is really about how to inform meaning and how to take pedestrian objects and fill them with meaning. I think this goes along well with what Barbara has to say about art.

 

I really enjoyed this work, I also like her use of florescent lights in a lot of her work.

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