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18 comments:
this piece was so much fun! i feel like i should thank you. so: THANKS ANNIE! but yeah, something about squirting paint at a human body - that one thing in grade school that's such a big no-no. it was really freeing for me.
the was really great performance. i had no idea a feminist/gender relations/sexuality art performance could be so much fun!
in fact, the amount of fun takes the piece out of that whole "issues" context. it becomes something really lighthearted and revealing.
upon the first squirt, my excitement escalated. i found myself painting annie's butt when i realized how sexualized the performance was. it really brought down a lot of inhibitions. i think for annie as well, i mean getting into a bikini is not so innocent.
and then the performance died very naturally, not at all unlike sexual climax. we had done and did not want to do anymore.
hahaha, Sam's comment made me laugh!!
I appreciated Anne's generosity to open up to let viewers to project what could be done without announcing. In a slight sense, it reminded me of Yoko Ono's infamous piece, "Cut Piece," in which Yoko Ono sat silently on a stage while audience members would come up and snip off pieces of her clothes.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/07/1965-video-of-yoko-o.html
Though Annie is not using the violent tool like scissors, but the connotation of violence such as blood can be seen in the paint she used.
In some ways, I was bit afraid of its potential violent nature though it is still abstract in a sense.
However, the potential connotation of self-abuse or openness of abusive situation should be alerted with this type of performance. Or am I going to far? This time, she contorlled it with tempera paint so it would not harm.
Though I appreciated the braveness and generosity of Annie, I am questioning what kind of role as a woman this performance characterizes. Vulnerability, strength, or perverse pleasure?
I would be interested in your comment, Annie.
This performance was really awesome and entertaining. It really reminded of Yoko Ono's "cut" piece. It's amazing how agressive people become towards other people's bodies. Covering you in paint wasn't enough...somebody said "let's get it on her hair". I really enjoyed it...awesome.
i had so much fun squirting paint on you Annie. we should do it more often. the marks that were left after she left the scene was really great too - i'm usually not a fan of bright colors, like the ones used in this piece, in paintings but i actually really liked it in the aftermath of this whole performance. (and how you went in that sink to clean up, so cute).
This piece was a shock to me at first. I saw Annie painted all over her body and I didn't see her bikini.so i thought she was naked. And then i saw her bikini when i took another closer look.
this piece was a very entertaining piece. most of all,i liked the fact that we could all participate making this piece. we were really a big part of this work.
haha... you had a lot of balls to allow an art class to paint you so hands down you deserve a little recognition for the brave and trust or lack of trust in the class. i also have to laugh at the fact that you cleaned yourself up in the sink while Irina performed her milk piece. it did feel a bit like rebellion and breaking the rules and i am not sure which way you were trying to point, that or the gender sexuality bla bla bla way. Never the less i think it was a really good piece and liked the participation of the class and audience. Although i didnt actually paint or squirt you , i did enjoy watching and was very glad it wasnt me. Good Good work
This was great. It was really fun to watch but I felt too reserved to go jump in myself. Annie has a lot of guts, I never ever would have been able to do this. I loved the first giant blue squirt of paint Sam squirted on her, totally startled me. It was definitely reminiscent of a lot of 70s feminist performance pieces (like those already mentioned and Marina Abramovic's "rhythm o").
I sort of wish she hadn't chosen such childish finger-painty colors because they turn into such a muddy mess and remind me of those shitty paints you used in elementary school (but that is totally just me, I'm not a huge fan of bright colors). I think this would have worked in a really interesting way with just black and white paint.
It was almost like you were offering yourself as a target for a paint war. I'm sure everyone jumped in enthusiastically, knowing that there wouldn't be any retribution.
It was really fun to throw paint at you and watch others really get into it. It first started out as a mess of 'lets throw everything we can!' but then by the end people were becoming civilized and calming down, consulting each other on what color needs to be added next. Nice!
I wonder if you should have just stayed still in the center, rather than move around or offer yourself to the next trigger happy painter. At one point someone wanted to paint your hair and you obligingly bent your head, which sort of ruined it for me. I saw this performance as more of a 'i'll go to you and let you paint me' than a 'come here and paint me'. Which was your intent?
i really enjoyed watching yoko ono's "cut piece" although i felt in that particular performance, it was a bit sad to see that she didn't get totally naked. for the most part, her undergarment was left mostly intact. people seemed to be fairly considerate with her, and that's what i didn't enjoy. especially with my piece, i wanted more quinns and sams to do whatever the hell they wanted to in the performance of me + body + paint. i wanted a semi-feminist work, but not something that needed to necessarily have serious undertones.
i didn't want to initiate anything. i wanted the performers (you guys) to experience the revelation of having total freedom in graffitying another's body. there's a line stretching from the shock of my attire to the extreme of not caring that i'm almost naked. there is a moment once paint has already gone onto me that i am sexualized and not sexualized, all at the same time. there is excitement on both parts (at least, definitely for me) in the moment of getting painted and painting that eliminates inhibitions and initiates creation in people. i wanted YOU to be the artist, and me to be your medium. You were dominant, and i was your canvas.
if things were to get somewhat violent, so be it. it didn't really go that far (though perhaps i wished for it in some ways)...hiroshi's comment about an openness towards abuse is actually quite on. i was literally not going to stop anyone from doing anything that they wanted, even if i became uncomfortable. i didn't want you guys to ask if it was okay to put paint in my hair. i'm glad you guys did. i didn't want to have to get nearer to you guys in a sort of, "it's okay, you can get me dirty" gesture, but i think some of you guys needed the "ok, go" which is fine.
addie's comment about the paint colors black and white is really interesting. i'd definitely want to try that sometime in the future. but i think the colors would have to be well considered, especially to fit in with my content. i mainly picked the primary colors bc they are so childish and uncaring. i felt that they would allow you guys to feel like you could just play with the paint like Crayola crayons/paints/markers, etc. once the colors are more serious, the performance inevitably has a more serious air to it as well.
it was interesting that towards the ending you guys started to become art students and want to put colors on my body evenly. someone even said to put more blue on my right side, which is so ridiculous in that moment. things started out crazy, and ended with artists considering color combinations. bizarre yet interesting.
i absolutely love showering in sinks. i used to do that when i was a little kid. hah.
thanks guys for making my piece!
annie cho.
Annie Cho's project reminds me of body painting. It was great and fun performance and I like how everyone squirt paints on her body and creates one piece of artwork. We created an artwork (painting) on Annie's body! LOL
The most exciting part of this performance was when Annie jumped into small sink and people start to wash off paints for her. I don't think it was part of her piece but it was fun!!
Also, it was funni to see paints on her teeth. When I saw it, i could not stop laughing.
It was great work!! and I thank you!!!
LOVED IT. You have guts, Annie Cho.
It was interesting to watch the progression of how the class treated her, first gently, and then violently and crazily, almost touching on a kind of mob mentality. It was entertaining and successfully interactive.
I did not participate in the act of painting annie therefore I got a different experience from the piece. I was entertaining how everyone reacted to fact they were allowed to paint a person. It seemed that the piece brought out a childish quality in those who got to paint annie. Annie put herself in a very vulnerable position and I thought it was interesting how she never held back, rather wanted to be painted all over.
Watching this piece I couldn't help, but wonder how Annie would have activated the performance had the audience not started to toss paint on her and had she conducted all the painting herself. While, I agree that the work was interesting as it had gone (especially watching the comfort level and enthusiasm grow in audience participation) I think it would have been just as interesting to see Annie cover herself in paint.
-Brenden
i enjoyed watching the progression that took place during this performance-- how excited and into it the class became and how it ended so naturally. there is something so interesting and making marks on someone in such an intrusive way. i was interested in how you were sort of this blank slate for us to do what we wanted, which opened up a kind of uncomfortable sexual aspect to the piece. i personally felt funny squirting paint on you because i did not want to cause you discomfort so i was kind of timid, yet enjoyed seeing everyone else's choices of how they wanted to paint you.
Absolutely - THANKS, ANNIE!
It was great how everyone eventually joined in, and how the painting action intensified. It was crazy how the gang mentality went from painting on you with a brush to tossing paint, then to deliberately squirting paint into your hair.
Thinking back, it was really interesting how this weird child-referencing type thing was sexualized. Finger painting gone wild.
I also thought that seeing you in the sink was totally beautiful, sick, and childishly sexy. I actually have a few pictures where you remind me of a Degas painting.
I can't help but being reminded of a "Parental Control" episode where people do this on a date, except they are rolling around in paint instead of having paint applied to them by another person. I think it is interesting that MTV extracted the sexual aspect of it and left the artistic part behind. I actually associate this idea with childhood. It is a little kid's dream to be completely covered in paint or mud, or whatever else could be a nightmare in laundry and footprints. This must have been so much fun.
I love this piece. There is something really sexual yet strong in this action of bodypainting. For some reason it seems like a pro-feminism act to me and, at the same time, reminds me of childhood (painting with your hands but to the extrem!). great performance.
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