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Showing posts with label Performance Student Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Performance Student Work. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Alex McNutt, Student Work




Alex's concept inspired by "Meshes of the Afternoon" by Maya Deren (1943), action figures and the sea.

Materials to make the mask - wire, tracing paper and gel medium.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular and repeats several motifs, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper–like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality. In 1990, Meshes of the Afternoon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in the second year of voting. In 2015 the BBC named the film the 40th greatest American movie ever made.[2] -Wikipedia


Monday, January 12, 2015

Student Work

Sculptures made from wire, tracing paper and gel medium. 
Each sculpture worn by a student. 
The performance consisted of students moving their sculpture around a space so it appeared that forms were moving on their own. 






Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Student Work

Sculptures made from wire, tracing paper and gel medium. 
Each sculpture worn by a student. 
The performance consisted of students rotating around a large room in the gallery to music. 
Students entered the room one by one. 
Gradually the room filled with moving forms and chaos ensued. 
The chaos was intended. 


Leaving for the performance. Tony Sasso.

Waiting.

Christine McGrath.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Student Work, Fall 2008


After the performance, students created an installation in the center of the gallery.


Detail of one of the forms made by Rachel Spence.