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- center for urban pedagogy
- Emily Coxe in her own words
- Hrag Vartanian - A blog of art, culture, photography, writing and ideas.
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- Lindsay Aikman
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- Matthew Valia Photography
- ON EX-TIBET
- ON SATO SAN
- Pixel Pour (By Kelly Goeller)
- Pixel Pour by Kelly Goeller
- Pixel Pour by Kelly Goeller by 53TABS
- Re:Public, Masters of the Ephemeral - Aakash Nihalani
- Timur Civan Cinematography Reel 2008
19 comments:
i love the ambiguity of the markmaking. while watching you make it, it was obvious how the marks were made, but once hung on the wall they assumed more enigmatic shapes - to me they looked like little mouths or baby rorschach ink blots or the work of a tinytiny calligraphy brush - painted by elves!
the piece has a lot of strength as merely a drawing, which is interesting because typically a performance yields a drawing that heavily refers to the action.
in this case i felt the action was almost inconsequential. i saw her do it, but i no longer cared about how it was made.
I felt the clarity of the intention by the artist and in some sense the confidence of this project was apparent. Aubrey was sure of what she was doing, what she was getting, and the cult-like pleasure of being looked at.
I was first of all impressed with the beautiful drawing that it made. This act inherently drew viewers to stare at her face and vulnerable flashing of her eye and eyelashes.
And it repeated itself once again drawing the viewers to pay attention. Though we may have imagined what the outcome would have been. But, it never bored us and I thought that aspect was great.
Then she quickly put up the work. As instant as the work was made, the work had nice sense of structure and chaos at the same time.
i liked the outcome more than the performance. during the performance i found it hard to really pay attention because i knew the same action was going to repeated numerous times. so i kind of geared myself away from the performance and went back to it when it was done. and i think either way, the result was great!
i think both the performance and the outcome were very simple and clean which i liked. at first when i got this assignment, i only could think of works that take lots of time, work,or people. so this piece showed not all performance works are like that.
I agree that the work functioned very well as a drawing with or without the performance. I think the drawing with aid from the title makes the action very clear, however I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss her classroom performance as “inconsequential.” There was a certain allure in watching the make-up being applied and the paper being drawn around her face like a plastic bag or panty hose. Although I would have loved to see these marks applied in an all-over fashion on canvas (couldn’t help, but think of Dan Colen’s kiss painting) I think the clear paper made her frosted concentration underneath (best seen in the third photo) worthwhile to document.
this was a very interesting piece to me because when putting mascara on, I always end up getting it on my hand or skin when i dont mean to. The simplicity of this mark making was very beautiful and poetic and the actual movement of your lashes reminded me of a butterfly. i agree when someone commented that it was put up right after the finish of mascara, which was a nice balance to the blinking of the eyes I thought this was a very successful performance and piece. I would even consider doing more and playing with makeup and the body as tools to create art
I really love this as a drawing and an action. The little eyelash marks are both endearing and eerie at the same time. Janine Antoni did a very similar piece called "Butterfly Kisses" (which i can't find a picture of at the moment) which was an all over piece, like Brenden said he'd like to see.
The performance was very systematic and neat, which was a nice change. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you stay in character/focus on your project even with Hiroshi hovering maybe like 2 inches from your face!
I agree with the comments about this performance being endearing and alluring. It was very delicate and girlish, and the image of you behind the paper is really striking, almost ghostly.
first things first: sorry aubrey that i didn't get to see your performance! i was in the sink washing off. =( i was only told what happened, and i have the photos to refer to.
lashes to me are very feminine, but it seems your performance was very process oriented: place mascara on lashes, brush onto paper. simple and it takes the feminine out of a VERY feminine product and body part. but at the same time it is a female artist performing, and a girly act at that. =)
eyelashes as drawings are quite abstract and really quite beautiful. i just wish the drawing wasn't so orderly...i want it to be more abstract and random.
annie cho.
oh yes, and they remind me of tracks left behind by an animal... ^^ like dog foot prints or something...but it's aubrey. =)
annie cho.
It was interesting to watch Aubrey put mascara on her eyelashes. For me, mascara acts like a paint and eyelashes act like a bursh. Therefore, when she puts her painted-eyelashes on paper, it creates one work of paitning. Even though she repeated same marks, shapes are different.
Also I like the fact that she used translucent paper because I could she her eyelashes brush into the paper. It was simple but creative!
I loved this piece. It was simple and personal and left a beautiful documentation. The confidence of the performance was nice, and I can't help thinking about feminist ideas when looking at it, the proposition that the mark a woman can make is not necessarily a natural part of her, but a product used to unnaturally enhance a natural part of her. (that might be totally stretching it). Formally speaking, it was very successful. I think this was great.
I also saw this piece as a drawing. The mark making to me seemed like we were watching you make a drawing. The piece was simple but successful I think because of the end product. Like the polaroid piece, this was done in a very systematic and robotic way.
Definetely a great paper choice. I didn't get to see most of the performance because I was cleaning, but I can appreciate it from the photos. The marks were very interesting and it would be interesting to see a conglomeration...like hundreds of them. They felt delicate, and the paper made them feel very delicate.
Your performance showed mascara to be a delicate body paint, which I guess I disagree with, but that's unimportant.
thanks for the feedback. i knew i wanted to use the transparent paper immediately when i came up with the idea, however i practiced the "eyelash drawings" many times in different arrangements beforehand. i agree it could be interesting to try it out in different compositions and maybe not as methodically. but in the end i decided that i wanted the placing of the marks to happen naturally so that i could go from the right to left eyelashes with ease without too much thought. one thing that was nice in the practicing of the performance that was not displayed in class due to everything that was going on, was the sound that the eyelashes made during the blinking of the paper. dont think it was necessary for the piece as a whole though.
It was really nice watching you apply the mascara, blot/swipe it onto the paper, then continue. It seemed like a bizarre, obsessive process. The drawing was really beautiful as well... but I definitely agree that the performance aspect was important. Seeing it happen, and seeing you do it confidently and seriously - makes the evidence of the action (and thus both parts) seem necessary and integral.
it is very nice to see that you noticed the beautiful marks eyelashes make accidentally, and then turned that into a piece of art. I like that you made your body into an artist tool in a very simple way. It would be interesting to try this concept with other textures of your body, like using your hair as a paint brush, your fingerprints, fingernails, etc. The outcome was very beautiful.
I love this piece. It is feminine because the idea of mascara is, obviously, related to women. But the eyelash marks are really beautiful as a marking and, again, this is your way of leaving a mark to represent yourself.
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