Caroline Rivera, Student Work

My body sculpture was inspired by Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, in which spectators are invited to snip off her clothing. In my performance piece, spectators were giving me something, rather than taking away. I designed and constructed a dress from canvas and painted with black paint. A tool dipped in bleach left marks on the dress. After each spectator made a mark on the dress, I responded with a paper flower containing to positive messages in two languages, Spanish and English. The dress then served as a memory of a time and place. After everyone left their mark, the dress was lit with black lights in a ceremonial manner to signify the ending of the ritual.

Tyler Odachowski, Student Work

For my Body Happening, I chose to make a slingshot that connects to the arm.  The majority of the slingshot consists of wood and the remainder is elastic, screws, tape, and glue.  I added a trigger to it to allow the user to only have to use one hand to set of the sling shot.  The trigger wraps underneath of the users arm and just by simply pulling upon the trigger, it will release and shoot the amo.  If you look at the front of the mechanism (where the elastic is attached), you will see two cylindrical pieces of wood.  You can add or subtract these pieces to increase/ decrease the tension.  In the following video, you will see how easy it is to set of the trigger and how powerful the slingshot is when shooting a four inch piece of wood.

Erica Lewis, Student Work

I chose to create something that enhanced my ability to create noise. They are called
stick fingers. Each separate finger was created with masking tape, a base, and
an object at the tip. Each tip of all 10 fingers had a different object so that when
they came in contact with another object, they made different noises.

Kailey Komar, Student Work

My "Body Happening" is essentially the extension of a human arm. By using wooden dowels of various sizes, styrofoam, fabric, masking tape, twine, and ALOT of hot glue, I recreated the fingers and joints of my hand and extended the connecting arm-piece so that it would be twice the length of my actual arm. The happening results from the use of twine glued to the end of the fingers. I threaded the twine through the arm piece and into a stopper placed at the center. I then tied loops at the end so that when I inserted my arm into the piece, I could lace my fingers into the loops situated at the center and pull each individual string. This would then cause the corresponding finger at the end to move, just like a real hand would.