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21 comments:
this piece was great because i almost didn't notice it at first, yet you left traces of the piece on everything you touched. both subtle and beautiful, i found this piece incredibly effective in terms of its inherently quiet nature and the play that you brought to it - which is to say i especially loved it when you slapped my ass with your gold hands!
This piece for me is like Vito Acconci's following piece.
Here is about Vito Acconci's following piece.
Following Piece is one of his early works. The underlying idea was to select a person from the passers-by who were by chance walking by and to follow the person until he or she disappeared into a private place where Acconci could not enter. The act of following could last a few minutes, if the person then got into a car, or four or five hours, if the person went to a cinema or restaurant. Acconci carried out this performance everyday for a month. And he typed up an account of each 'pursuit', sending it each time to a different member of the art community.
When I asked Kerry when she was presenting, she told me her hands were painted Gold. Then for the first time I realized the fact that I have noticed her hands painted before. Then, I realized the significance of not announcing its beginning and its' contemplative presence. Originally, when I saw her hands before she told me, it passed through my mind as Kerry was preparing her piece for the later presentation. So when she told me the idea of her hands leaving marks wherever she touched, my unconscious observation of her hands and her action was activated and I needed to imagine/remember. Then my imagination of what she had touched followed my vague memory of her hands. These free associative thinking process that was inspired by her piece and it was due to its' poetic nature. It's perversely silent and sexual in someway in it's provocation, this piece worked really took my breath away. I thought it was very, very well done.
the traces of gold her hands left were very nice, and a bit like a dog marking his territory.
couldnt help but think of goldfinger and "sweet movie" in which one character has a gold member that causes a lot of problems.
i think she had used makeup as the gold paint, which is interesting-- reminds me of a young girl rummaging through her mother's makeup and disastrously misusing it.
i actually tooootally missed all of the traces and didn't notice that her hands were painted gold! so when i saw the photos i was surprised - but a good surprise - because she was presenting it the whole time but i didn't realize. the pictures show the effectiveness and i kind of wish i could go back and look for all the other marks you left
I didn't notice the gold traces that your hands left, I guess because I wasn't looking for them. I noticed your gold hands, and by the end of the day realized that their presence was your performance. It was very subtle but definetely noticeable.
i also did not see any of the traces though i noticed her painted hand!when i saw her hand that day, i wodered why she was not doing anything with it.through seeing the pictures here, i think the color,gold, was a good choice.i think that it leaves a very mysterious feelings on each object she touched on possibly making people(who did not see her hand) to imagine what had happened to those objects.
agreed, i didnt see the gold spots, but i am glad it was captured on film as incorporated in your everyday experiencing of touch. It made me think of my imprints around in one single day, what would it be like if imprints were different colors and everyone had pink or gold, or green or something around the city or around the world. Hand sanitizer in my pocket from now on. But in regard to your hands, it was very amusing and beautiful and out of the other works you produced in this class, i think this one you definitely made your MARK. hehe... good work
I really loved the quiet nature of this piece. I love that Kerry never really announced it or pointed out her golden remnants left behind. Just noticing her gold hands now and again throughout class was enough.
The gold was also a great choice. It sort of made her hands seem like these precious objects, the poor man's King Midas while at the same time being reminiscent of those performers who stand in parks completely painted silver or grey pretending to be sculptures. Gold definitely brings to mind different references for different people, I love that.
I did see that your hands were painted gold throughout the class period however, i kept on expecting something more. I was a bit confused as if your hands were left that way from another action. I was definitely intrigued by the sight of your hands being gold. Now that I re-evaluate the piece, its very elegant. I unfortunately missed the marking you left around the room as well.
I noticed her hands were covered in gold paints but I didn't know what she was doing. I thought I missed the performance!! However, after looking at photos, I realized what is her project and I now know what was she doing in class. I kept looking at Kerry and she was keep touching Annie Cho's paints and Hiroshi took pictures of the paints that Kerry touched. I had no idea that they were doing, but I get it now!!
It will be nice to leave trade marks in Barneys' building before we leave this school so people can remember us and know that we existed!!
I saw that your hands were gold, but didn't see any traces of it on other things. I'm hoping you left some gold on Annie after helping her wash herself, haha.
It's great that everyone overlooked it, and it was a nonstop performance, all the way to the bathroom (if that's where you cleaned your hands). I hope you smeared your hands on the wall before that.
Did it dry by the end of the class? Or did you have to keep redoing the gold? I'm surprised it lasted that long.
like quinn said i really liked the subtlety in your performance. i'm not sure how long the performance went on (e.g. if you washed your hands immediately after) but i hope that you continued on and contaminated/beautified everything that came your way.
what's the lure of alchemy? why is gold so precious? why do we find sparkle and shine so special? the king mitus gesture of turning things to gold can be seen, and yet we know that the powder will come off and the traces will only be remembered by documentation.
i enjoyed seeing you walk down the stairs and touch everything...the gold hand prints seemed like your were turning the stairways into gold.
i wonder how different the performance would be if more of you had been covered w/ gold? would your actions have been far more noticeable? do we want it so?
btw this is annie cho.
I thought this piece was subtle and beautiful (I hate using that word, but it was.) The idea of leaving traces of gold is really nice, using gold as a way to represent your presence. Like Quinn said, the quietness of it was really nice too.
gold was definitely a great choice for this piece. it left fanciful traces for us to discover all day. i also appreciate that you did not announce it and that your hands were painted from the start to finish of the class. you had a sort of magical mime-like quality throughout the day which worked well
I agree with the idea that leaving the performance unannounced from start to finish was a good move…the day ended with me wondering why you hadn’t gone yet and why you had painted your hands gold…so maybe the work was about something different for each of us.
-Brenden
This is so beautiful! I think this performance is great both as an idea and as a resulting artwork. For me, it changes the idea of spreading germs into an idea of spreading positive influence to every encounter. I think it would be interesting to do this again with two hands, one painted gold, the other, red, to explore the idea of good and evil.
Yeah... I don't quite know what to say. Thanks for the feedback. I don't know what I expected going into it, what would happen, etc., i just wanted to leave a trace of sorts, and gold seemed like it could be really nice and really crappy at the same time.
The "really nice and really crappy at the same time" was great! I totally wanted to touch your hand but didnt want any to get on me. Really good way of interpreting another classic art school prompt "attraction/repulsion" i would've wanted you to push the performance a bit more though, maybe touch people on purpose or leave more intrusive marks?
The idea of leaving a personal mark, no matter how subtle, is really beautiful. The nuances in this piece is what makes it.
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