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LYNN LU SALT ANGEL

SPACE

SHE MADE USE OF THE SURROUNDING BY GOING TO A BUSY SPOT AND DID HER PERFORMANCE. THIS INCREASES  THE CHANCES OF HAVING AUDIENCE. SHE ALSO DID ON THE ROAD, WHERE PEOPLE WILL CROSS HENCE PEOPLE WILL BE DRAWN TO SOMEHING USUAL WHICH IS HER ACTION. THIS MADE PEOPLE PART OF THE PERFORMANCE WITHOUT THEM EVEN NOTICING IT.

TIME

TIME TOO  PLAYS APART IN HAVING A BIGGER AUDIENCE.  IF SHE WAS TO DO IT IN THE WEE MORNING, CHANCES IS THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING READY FOR WORK IN THEIR OWN APARTMENT OR ACTUALLY EVEN SLEEPING. TIME ACTUALLY CAN BY APPLIED HOW BREAK THE CONVENTIONAL IDEA OF WHEN YOU CAN MAKE A SNOW ANGEL, DOING IT DURING TIMES OTHER THAN WINTER

AUDIENCE

SHE INTERACTED WITH THE AUDIENCE THE MOMENT THEY SAW HER AND STOPPED. GETTING THE INTENDED REACTION FROM THE VIEWER IS A PERFORMANCE ARTIST IS BEST FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT THEIR PERFORMANCE WAS A SUCCESS.

BODY

THE MOVEMENTS OF HER ARMS AND LEGS IS THE  EXPRESSION OF HER MAKING THE SALT ANGEL.

ORLAN

ORLAN IS AN ARTIST FROM FRANCE AND IS KNOWN FOR HER PLASTIC SURGERY WHICH SHE TAKE IT AS A FORM OF ART. THAT PERMANENT CHANGE IS HER FORM OF DOCUMENTATION. OTHER THAN THAT SHE RECORD IT DOWN BY VIDEOTAPING IT. THEY SAID A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS, HENCE A VIDEO MAY ACTUALLY BE PRETTY SELF EXPLANATORY. HOWEVER ONE WHO WATCHES THE VIDEO  MAY NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND IT, PERHAPS TAKING IT AS A FORM OF MEMORY FOR THE PERSON UNDERGOING IT RATHER THAN A FORM OF PERFORMANCE ART. PERHAPS SHE MAY READ A CERTAIN TEXT THAN PERHAPS THE AUDIENCE MAY GET A CLUE OF THIS IS ABOUT.

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Natasha Izatil FA2A2
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1. Lynn Lu’s “Snow angel” was mentioned in the talk and it consists all the four elements of performance art.

As for time, she performed her act during summertime even though her title is snow angel. I think she is trying to emphasise her motive. Instead of making a snow angel during winter, she makes a snow (salt) angel during summer.

As for space, she performed at the Shinjuku district, which is a busy street in Japan. It is a public space where people cross the road every minute. Maybe she wants to let her audience think about what is she doing in the middle of the busy road making “snow angels”

As for the performer’s body, she uses her body to create the snow (salt) angel. She repetitively sweeps her arms and legs open closed to create the snow (salt) angel.

Lastly for the audience, she interacted with the audience by making them confused and making them stop their activity just to look at what she is doing. Maybe the audience will wonder why is she making a salt angel during summer instead of snow angel during winter. They connect mentally also in Japan, salt connotes spiritual purity (as do angels in the West), and is used widely in Shinto practices.

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2. I feel that the documentation of Orlan: Carnal Art is useful as it makes me wonder about her actions. She mainly uses photography to document her works and it lets me see an idea of what she is trying to portray. She basically went under the knife to make her look like artworks. For example having the chin of ‘Venus’ and the lips of ‘Europa’. Orlan’s face is her art. She went plastic surgery for 6 years in the name of self-expression. I feel that Orlan is also dedicated to art and would do anything to express herself even if it kills her. From her photographs I could also interpret that beauty is pain, also her form of beauty is the masterpieces in museums. I will not change anything in the documentation of Orlan’s  as I feel that in this case, “A picture is worth a thousand words”.

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Chiew Enying Claudia F15FA0048

1.Lynn Lu's Free Secrets – 2010, London

"Free Secrets" is done by the performance artist Lynn Lu. It is based on the concept of giving without expecting to get something in return and also taking without payment.She placed a sign saying, "Free Secrets, take one or leave one.

She placed some of her own secrets. And as the crowd got curious one by one started to put their own.

She used the space at Tate Modern's "No Soul for Sale", a festival that brings together different artists from around the world.Doing it in public is a great way to communicate with the audience.

2. The artists documenting are able to share to a bigger audience through online.

The artists documents in different ways too. Orlan's plastic surgical art depicts how women want to perfect their looks. And Annie showing us her art in the form of porn.to show how men likes it.

I honestly feel there is no need to change the documentation. It is right now one of the best ways to record and spread the word.

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Nur Raihan Binte Jamaluddin FA2A2
1. Misfortune does not come with a bell, Sweden - Lynn Lu 2012
Lynn Lu’s performance art about the misfortune does not come with a bell. Time, how it applies to Lynn’s work is how much time had to interact with her audiences to be able to get their stories out. And able to get them to write their mishap that have happened to them in the time of their life. And with the letter that has a bell in it, she placed it into people bags and such. Being able to take time to know people, and getting her message out it’s a time constraint.

Working with the space that she has, which was the sauna. A confined, hot and steamy room filled with different kind of people and being able to get their story out. As sauna is more of a place, where you tend to want to relax your mind and now worry about what’s going on. And being able to get mishap of people life, which was interesting. And how people barely clothed comfortable in talking about their personal life.

To put herself in a situation of a confined space, and talking to people barely clothed. And after getting the stories of people’s misfortune, she was able to ‘reversed pickpocket’. To sent a message to people out their, you wouldn’t see it coming. Which is the problems, and mishap that might occur in our day to day life.

How she interpret her work by getting her audiences talk about their misfortune. To take part of her performance art, that indicates she needs the stories of the audiences as part of her performances. Without their stories of misfortune, the whole performances lost its direct message that Lynn’s wants to convey.

2.I guess what i have seen in most of artist practices is that, that will be given time or limited timing for them to do such particular work. Such like They have a time constraint or a maybe more or less a compilation of work they have to work with within its time needed. In my opinion, i guess its more of how the artist is doing its performances to make  their statement and that is what matters. Even if its through a live or documented audiences, as live is more open to whoever will be there. But documentation, anyone is able to reply and re-watch the whole performance again, as its has more wider range of audiences compared to live.

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Lynn Lu- Painting the scent of trees.

It is a 2 hours duration performance, it was located at the busy street market, there she was, being barefoot in a barrel of green grapes and wore headphones. With an audience, holding each other, moving around the barrel like a slow dance  while squishing the grapes between their toes listening to merleau-ponty in his 1948 lecture, 'Exploration of the Perceived World: Sensible Objects.' the audience was having fun as she/he felt relaxed after a long walk in the market, as the grapes comes as a massaging object.

Annie sprinkles

Annie sprinkles documented her work through photos even though she is a first porn star with ph.d . she expressed herself by making different positions, it like she is freeing herself,  if there is any changes i could change, some areas she should not do and not to cross the line especially exposing too much.

- Joelyn FA2A2

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Lynn Lu - Snow (Salt) angelWhen she was at Japan, she rode her bike into a busy street and start her performance. She started to pour bags of salt on the street and lied on it after that. She repeatedly move her hands and legs on the sand so it creates a movement. In japan, it is believe that salt represents purity.I think that to present and representing an idea is somehow similar. To present an idea, it is to convey a certain message by using other object as medium while representing it means that your own body becomes the medium.It is important to a certain extent for art to have one clear meaning. Without a clear meaning, it would definitely spark controversy. However, having a clear meaning does not mean that all the audiences would take it the way it is shown to the public. Not everyone would come to a same conclusion as society, religion, politics might have influenced the way they see things. For example Lynn Lu’s “Snow angel”, Japanese would think that Lynn is trying to share good karma with everyone. However, if she were to do that in Singapore, she would be fined $1500 for littering.

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Lynn Lu - Snow (Salt) angelWhen she was at Japan, she rode her bike into a busy street and start her performance. She started to pour bags of salt on the street and lied on it after that. She repeatedly move her hands and legs on the sand so it creates a movement. In japan, it is believe that salt represents purity.I think that to present and representing an idea is somehow similar. To present an idea, it is to convey a certain message by using other object as medium while representing it means that your own body becomes the medium.It is important to a certain extent for art to have one clear meaning. Without a clear meaning, it would definitely spark controversy. However, having a clear meaning does not mean that all the audiences would take it the way it is shown to the public. Not everyone would come to a same conclusion as society, religion, politics might have influenced the way they see things. For example Lynn Lu’s “Snow angel”, Japanese would think that Lynn is trying to share good karma with everyone. However, if she were to do that in Singapore, she would be fined $1500 for littering.

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SITI HARIANI FA2A2
1. Elements of Performance Art
: time, space, the performer’s body, and a relationship between audience and performer.
LYNN LU
"Free Secrets: take one and/or leave one"
art performance “free secrets” where she asked people to take a secret of another’s then they can choose to leave one of their secrets in return or not. It was based on a concept of giving without the expectation of anything in return, and taking without the obligation of payment. Which I find quite interesting as it’s a norm sometimes for many to give and take at the same time.

TIME
Through whole duration she took was 6 hours, it does seem a little bit long but in order to gather ‘secrets’ from a lot of people it was a pretty good amount of time I guess. And it might have taken a lot of patience into consideration to deal with audiences.

SPACE
The space she used was Free Secrets was made for Post-Museum’s London Really Really Free Market at Tate Modern’s “No Soul For Sale”, a festival which brought together 70 independent art spaces from all over the world. And that was probably a really great platform for her to have easily gathered people since its a public space and also audiences that roughly understood her idea of doing such works.

THE PERFORMER’S BODY
It probably didn’t require her to do much actions or whatsoever but one thing was her body language while accepting secrets from her audience.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUDIENCE AND PERFORMER
This to me, is one of the very important key in her performance. Linking to the point that she has to be ‘acceptive’ of her audience’s secrets, this is because everything that they have given can be personal and through this definitely a lot of communication might have been involved in order to understand better questions for one another would have been asked.

2. Documenting Performance
For Orlan to have documented her series of plastic surgeries to show many her perception of beauty and what seems perfect for her is very intense.

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1. Lynn Lu
“Future of Imagination 10” - 36 Questions That Leads To Love*

The time the audiences had with each other who they do not know and wish to know more about one another. They are instructed to question those 36 personal questions given by the artist. The audiences also have to stare into each others eyes for 4 minutes.

Some of audiences were shocked by the questions that was given to them. Puzzled and unaware of what should be their answer as they did not see such question coming. The questions set were intimidating which allow the artist herself to know people who were overwhelmed by the questions and answer the audiences had. The emotions the audiences had was unexpected as they were not mentally prepared to be questioned that way.

Hosting such performance in a constraint space allows the audiences to be more comfortable with their surroundings. They would be more willing to share their thoughts and feelings.

*(“36 Questions that Lead to Love refers to a 20-year long study by the psychologist Arthur Aron and his team, that explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions.36 Questions that Lead to Love refers to a 20-year long study by the psychologist Arthur Aron and his team, that explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions.”)

2. Annie Sprinkles
Being a sex educator who also find pornography as a form of performance art. She explores different forms and elements in sex. Annie documented her works through not just as performance art but being brave enough to also creating films and also in front of medias. To her, she felt that the most interesting thing in part is not just our birth and death but also sex. Maybe to many us sex might not be the most interesting part as it might be married, giving birth or falling in love. But to her, she felt that making and showing love to people and thing around her were ways she felt most enjoyable and memorable. To many of us, sexuality only happens when we meet our lovers. But I think to her that is what she enjoys the most and willing to put herself in a space thats she is comfortable to be in so that she able to explore more, express and study her audiences.
Eunice Foo Xiu Qing, FA2A2

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QU ZIYUN FA2A2
1. Lynn Lu

Performer’s body
There are also artists went one step out of control by drawing anything other than their hands, doing weird and dangerous actions which can not be understand. For example ; Tony Orrico hosted by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences at the Keck Center, Washington DC on Thursday, May 20, 2010. . Join Tony Orrico for a unique and thought-provoking performance experience in the Keck Center Atrium that explores concepts of movement and drawing. Using the dimensions of his body as measure, Orrico references geometry, biomechanics, endurance, and ideas represented by da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. His performance challenges constructed ideas about what constitutes art and where it can be seen.

Relationship between artist and audience
Guerilla Art also known as street arts , this is a type of performance drawing which i prefer. This is a method of art making where the artist leaves anonymous art pieces in public places. It is often an installation in an unauthorized location. It is a way for an artist to express their views and opinions to a large audience in an anonymous way. In contrast to popular belief, guerilla art does not have to be done with spray paint. Other popular forms include videos and projections. Popular reasons include statement making, the sharing of ideas, the desire to send out good karma, and plain fun. Many times guerilla art is used to make a political statement, however, for this assignment it is used to make a statement about creativity.

Time and Space
These various forms of urban street arts represents different values of the society, and reflects various waves of development, political, cultural and social-economic contexts. while urban street art is considered as a direct reflection of many changes that happens to a community, as the people try to express their impressions, views and angers.

These are 20th/21st Century cave paintings. It's art for the public and for the masses. It's there to beautify a space, or Identify it (let you know where you are, just by the words, images, colors or style).  It may have some broader social commentary, or just be there to bring some chaos to the establishment. Street art can be done anywhere anytime and in anyplace. They space outside can be all use for arts.

2. Documenting Performance

Documentation of performance art can include photography, video, sound recording, and creative collection and display of “remnants” of performed actions left behind when the piece is complete. Documentation is often considered to be indexical; i.e. it provides proof for viewers who did not witness the live event that a particular event really occurred.

Documentation really helps in giving me additional understanding or information about artists’ s work, because i can read comments and other people’s opinions about it, their ways of documenting were perfectly fine, through videos and photography.

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1."NOVA sighting"
There wasn't a fixed timing as to how long the duration for the performance was. The element of time in this performance was controlled by the artist, whenever she rings her bicycle's bell the performance either starts or ends.
Using the busy road of japan, bustling with many locals. By choosing a big open space like this she would have a lot of audiences, many people pass by every second. Giving only prior instructions to 10 people to focus their attention on the "NOVA" signboard when they heard her bell and remained motionless until she rings the bell again. So it leads to a street full of those who doesn't who what was going on and curious passerby staring up into space for that duration of her work.
The performer however didn't make direct connection with her audience but she uses the initial 10 people she gave instructions to as the "performer" and she controls them behind the scene
-Adeline FA2A2

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nur aisha binte rosli FA2A2

1. Time

In the summertime, she rode around to the busy street in Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan. The time used to travel to the place and conduct the performance was part of the element, time. She toss bags of salt on the ground and slowly creating an expanding circle of snowy white. The time used to pour the bags of salt was part of the element, time, as it allows the audience to use the time to wonder what is happening.

Space

She used the busy streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan to do ‘Snow Angel’. The space used was in the middle of the road. The space she chose was a space of daily commutes. She created her own space in the middle of the busy street with a lot of people walking around her space.

The performer’s body

When all the bags of salt are emptied, Lynn Lu lie down on the 2-meter wide circle, and swept her arms and legs open closed open closed, repeatedly. The silhouette of a stylized angel (with wings and a flared skirt) is formed in the salt. There was connection with the performer’s body and the space.

Relationship between audience and performer

As Lynn Lu was performing, there was an interaction between the audience and performer through the mind. During the performance, people also stop to look at what she is doing thus there is a relationship between the audience and her.  The relationship between audience and performer is her performance. The message she is trying to convey is that in Japan, salt connotes spiritual purity (as do angels in the West), and is used widely in Shinto practices.

2. . Orlan is best known for her work with plastic surgery in the early to mid-1990s, she has not limited her work to a particular medium. Her ‘series’ of plastic surgery works gives off an intense and deep representation of Art.

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wuzhao FA2A2
1.Lynn Lu

The Secret Language of Flowers.

her recent performances in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern and Turbine Hall, Giswil,

The performance of the art is very gorgeous, beautiful, he chose to be in a busy street. These European buildings are very beautiful. At that time, the weather is more sunny, giving the impression that the space is very lively but not messy.At the foot of the performer, there were a lot of pink petals.Looks very warm.

From the point of view of the sun, they should choose the time should be at noon, this time around the light is very bright, there is no sunset yellow and no morning blue, only a white. These white ambient light can make people better integrate into. Atmosphere meeting

Lynn Lu and another man dressed like a wedding dress. White clothes with the surrounding white environment light more beautiful. The audience would think they were a couple. They are sucked with a ribbon, and kiss each other, even if they don't make the kiss, this ribbon still constitute two of them are linked together.

The audience to see the performing arts will think of their loved ones, because she expressed the love of a husband and wife is not a representation of things, even if there is no kiss, it does not mean that the relationship between husband and wife broke up.

2.

I think Lee Wen gave me a deep feeling. Many of his performing arts are expressing the theme of "freedom". Freedom is very important, many times we do things are not free. For example, study, work, these are not free, not really want to do. You may think that your job is to earn more money to do what you want to do. But it is also bound to freedom, that is to say you have to give up something for the precious youth. In the same way, when you have your lover, you will lose the freedom of another part. You have to take care of your family. You have to work for them. So few people can achieve real freedom now,

3.Proposal(Modified version)

I want to express some of the status quo through some acts of art. Now a lot of oil painters have no way to devote themselves to painting. Because of the current social situation can not let these painters live. Many artists are forced to do something they don't like. For example, advertising for others, but those artists actually prefer classical painting. But now few people go to buy paintings of unknown artists. So my idea is this. I'm going to tie a very beautiful picture to my head. And then put on some rather shabby clothes. The body is bound up with a lot of money. Then there was an advertisement on the chest, which said "preferential price; 998." the beautiful painting represents the picture of non-commercial use. Paper money represents the oppression of life. The meaning of the billboard is very simple, even if it is selling very cheap prices still no one will buy. I sat on the street like a beggar. I would like to tell people through this act of art, the arts industry will always give up some, or give up their lives, or give up the pursuit of art. The best things rarely exist in the world.

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MANDY ZHUANGXUEHONG FA2A2

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LYNN LU

“RIVULET” (Town Square; Hamar, Norway. 2015)

Time: It was a durational work, in which the jouney starts from Kunstbanken and over the course of two hours make it’s disparate ways towards the town square in Hamar.

Performer’s Body: Lynn drags a sack of salt, which equal to her body weight along the street until a hole in the sack was created, releasing a trail of white crystals.

Space: As she wanders through the town of Hamar, a pristine white line traces her journey.

When she finally arrives at the town square, she emptied the remaining salt in the sack and placed a small origami bot on the end of salt trail.

Relationship between audience and performer:

Lynn didn’t expain why she put the origami boats on the end of salt trail. In my understanding, the salt resembles the sea. The origami boat resembles Lynn. When the boat travels on the sea we cannot see the traces of the journey, however now Lynn uses the salt to resemble the traces of the journey.

2.
LEE WEN
"JOURNEY OF A YELLOW MAN"(April 1992 London).

This work done by Lee where by his body is covered with yellow pigments to express his ethnic identity in a striking manner.

In my opinion, I think this Performance done by Lee was largely influenced by the social injustices and the social inequalities he witnessed and observed in society. It makes the audience to reconsider their roles in society.

In addition the yellow paint mask helps to overcome his shyness of revealing himself as well as anxieties of stage fright when stepping in front of an audience.

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Apoorva Hans FA2A2
1.Free Secrets by Lynn Lu – 2010, London

The performance “Free Secrets “ done by Lynn lu was based on the concept of giving without expecting anything in return and taking without the obligation of payment. The artist had put up a sign – Free Secrets-take one and/or leave one.

Placing some of her to start off with and the audience got curious about the event and started to reveal their secrets to unknown people.

It was a great way of interacting with the audience as people were interested in writing their secrets to let go off the guilt and could take someone else’s secret with them.

Talking about the time, I feel 6 hours was a good time.  While the performance she got to know the audience, their secrets.

The space where she had setup was a free market at Tate Modern’s “No Soul For Sale”, a festival that brought together artist’s art spaces from different parts of the world.  Choosing a public place for such performances is better than a confined or enclosed space because you get to interact with people much better.

2.Journey of a yellow man, April 1992, London

Documenting one’s work is important be it photographs or videos. Lee Wen chooses to show his performance through the photographs. He painted himself yellow and used 2 red chains. He wanted to portray the sun or gold with the yellow colour and the chains symbolising social bondage, restrictions on the freedom of individuality, movement, behaviour etc. While red gave an impression of danger. He showed different positions in each photograph. I feel if he had documented through video, people could have got to know what he actually did during his performance.

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Ye Simin FA2B

1.snow angel

Lynn Lu

Street performance

Shinjuku; Tokyo, Japan. 2005

Time: This performance art was happen in summer, 2005. In my opinion, according the title “snow angle”, most people thing it must happen on the snow, but Lynn Lu chose a season without snow, to stress her ideal in most audience.

Space: Lynn Lu did it in the shipping district of Shinjuku, that is a public space. About the location, Lynn Lu choose to do this performance in Japan, I think it’s because in the tradition culture of Japan, the salt is spotless, she created a connection between her site and her title.

The performer’s body: To make a snow angle on the snow need the maker lie on the snow sweep their arms and legs. Lynn Lu did the same activity, her use her own body as an instrument to do her performance, to achieve a visua effect on the salt.

Relationship between audience and performer: The shipping district are lot of people, in the photo with recording the situation at the moment, we can find lots people are watching what Lynn Lu is doing. Because the location and what she’s doing, I believe that many audience must understand she is doing a snow angel, but started to think about what is her intention.

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Khairina Aqilah Binte Khairudin FA2A2

1. Lynn Lu’s performance art called Snow Salt Angel. It was a street performance that was taken place in Tokyo, Japan.

This work embodies the time & performance as she poured bag after bags of salt on the ground in the middle of a busy street in the shopping district of Shinjuku.

As for space as an element in her work, she used an open space during the busiest time of the year (Summertime) to perform at. It allowed people walking by to witness her performance and get confused or be curious about it.

Lynn Lu used her body to make a ‘snow angel’ by lying down on the salt and sweeping her arms and legs to make an angel as if it is snow instead. She uses the salt since it represents spiritual purity in Japan similarly to the angels that are in the west.

Lastly, she did made a connection with the audience since the salt that she uses for her performance is considered as spiritual for Japanese people. Apart from that, she did just left her work behind on the hot road where people would just walk by and wonder who did it.

2. Annie Sprinkle

She documented her works through photographs of her performance and I do feel that it does help with my understanding of her works. However even though most of her documented works are portrayed as if it was being advertised on magazines, I think that it would help me understand her works better if it was a short video instead. Since photographs are just clips from her performance, it limits my reaction towards it. One of her works that is called Public Cervix Announcement where she gave people an opportunity to see one in person. I think that being there in person during her performance art would definitely feel different from just seeing pictures of it.

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Reflecting on Lynn Lu's breastmilk projects

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Reflecting on Lynn Lu's breastmilk projects

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when i first looked up lynn lu, her breastmilk projects made a strong impression on me. https://lynnlu.info/baraka/
time: she reads an essay while the unrevealed breast pump machine makes a mysterious sound in the background. elongating sense of time with suspense
space: gallery. serious. solemn space.
body: she herself must have given birth recently, so that she can produce milk. to me this is very existential, and a very comtemplative way of using one's bodily functions in art.
relationship: she fed her breast milk to her audience. would you take it? i'm not sure myself. when i first read about this i thought i wouldn't. but since then i've found out that they say breast milk can cure cancer, maybe. so maybe i'll take it. in case. since got chance.
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1. On the Rocks "live" (Lynn Lu, 2005)

Time: Time is erratic and may or may not happen. The streets embodies lost time where the crowd passes by very easily, unable to have the focus on happenings that is around them.

Space: Personal space is invaded or being shared by Lynn. She would want people to understand that in order to share space, anyone could just sit/stand on anywhere as sections of space are being restricted to personal usage.

Relationship between audience and performer: Origami (Japanese cultural item) is a tradition that is lost to the technology pace happening in Japan. It may relate to rekindling relationships between family or close friends.

Relationship between performer and audience: Acting as a third party for rekindling relationships, leaving the paper boats on the ice as the ice melts away (drifting away slowly/growing apart), it would want the audience to pick up the boat (relationship) and get closer.

2. Documenting Performance:

For the 3 artists shown and given their past performances, their documentations differ from each other.

Annie shows her art in the form of porn as porn on websites are far more searchable/kept in archives/men likes porn. Sexuality in video format will not diminish and will also be contributed to erotic art.

For Orlan's plastic surgical art, it's what women have been doing to perfect their imperfect faces but, their priorities in their beauty are the most important to them and not their immediate loved ones (rather caring for themselves and not their daughters, sons, spouses). I think the documentation inflicted on the skin will led people to label her as a attention seeker.  People also will not be able to finish the video as they also feel the pain.

So far, photo/video documentations are the best in recording performances and I will still not change anything in the documentation.

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Yunita Rebekah FA2A2

1.     Breathing in/Breathing out (Lynn Lu, 2006)

This piece invites audience to sit on a chair facing the artist, recall their most important memory, take a deep breath and then exhale through a straw connected to Lynn Lu as she inhales it. She will then, with that breath make bubbles with a sticky gum toy and allow it to be carried off by the wind, or given back to the audience.

Time wise, this piece is short in duration in terms of her interaction with each audience, which allows her to interact with as many as she can during the duration of her performance.

There is the disappearing, and then the melding of space between the body of the artist and the audience. At first they are part of a crowd away from her, and then as they participate their physical body moves closer towards her, and then disappearing as a connection was made with the breath.

As a connection is made, a relationship between the audience and the performer is created. There is a give and take, or even an exchange if the audience chooses to take the balloon back. But nevertheless, they both have given and received something very personal.

2.     Orlan’s Carnal Art

She chose photography, and many of her photographs were composed or created in such a way that it mimics, maybe, what would considered to be the beauty ‘icon’ of that timeframe. She had a photograph dressed as a pop star holding a mike while the doctor drew on her, and her posed with a lot of fruits around her while she was cut with blood streaming, resembling a painting with a gory twist. The way it was contrasted with the setting being a surgical room, the blood, and in a way in her works we began to correlate beauty with ‘effort’ and suffering.

The fact that it was photographs, made it easy for us to relate it to iconic pictures of the time. Be it painting or photographs too. I think short video clips zooming in on her surgery might increase the empathic response to her pain being cut. But, maybe that wasn’t her goal.

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1. Elements of Performance Art
Performance art usually consists of four elements: time, space, the performer’s body, and a relationship between audience and performer. Reflect on the work of the performance artists discussed in this lecture (Lynn Lu and Gavin Maughfling). Choose one of their joint or individual performances and write four paragraphs, each describing how the selected work embodies these four elements.

2. Documenting Performance
Performance art takes the form of live action, but it has reached a large public audience through documentation of the performance. You have explored performances by Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, and Lee Wen, consider how each artist chose to document their works. Does the documentation add anything to your understanding of the work? Would you change anything in the documentation of any of these works? Write a short essay (200 words or less) reflecting on these questions.

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A two-day workshop led by Lynn and Gavin will also take place next weekend (18 & 19 February, 10am – 3pm) focused on performativity and art situated in the public realm. There’s 14 workshop spaces left, so please encourage your students to register should they be interested. The workshop itinerary can be found here.