How To Make An Art

Art star performance (at least I hope.....actually I don't care):

LIterature Performance on Stage

Panopticon

Panopticism (relating to Foucault's Discipline and Punish)

Architecture & Ritual

Zigurrats

(Stage)(Heart)Beats

You might have to turn your speakers up for this - the dynamics are quite exaggerated and the bass is both tactile/physical and aural. More and more I find that sound is playing a significant role in my thesis - in the characterization of the performer and the stage, and in the experiential qualities of the performances (for both the audience and myself).

Again, the stage has a presence, a life, a heart beat...

Endurance

To get to the top you must take large steps. To get to the bottom you must take careful steps. You don't stay at the top for long. You don't always look so good at the top either. How many times can one go up and come down?

The Performer & The Stage

I'm just fooling around in the studio - don't mind me:

Who Dare Disturbs My SLUMBER!!!!

In retrospect this little experiment reminded me about that particular scene in the Wizard of Oz when the rumbling, roaring, entity floating in front of our heroes turns out to be a small bumbling man behind a curtain in front of a control board. In some ways the performer inside the stage at the soundboard, shaking the stage with his bare hands, is the man hiding behind the smoke and mirrors act. Unlike the giant green meanie however, I feel the stage really does have a personality - a head, a voice, a presence. So while it may not be productive to compare the two (because Oz turned out to be just an elaborate illusion) the larger than life feel of the wizard resonates with me. I can guarantee that I won't come out from inside and start handing out brains, hearts, or courage.

More Video Stills

Stage Presence

Stage Presence

Stage Presents

Presence

Presents

A Presence

A voice

Power

For his newest album My Dark and Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West released a 35 minute short film (directed by West, script written by Hype Williams) as accompaniment to the album (similar to Pink Floyd's The Wall or Michael Jackson's Thriller). My own skepticism of Kanye aside, I'm obsessed with what he's doing to his song Power. The song itself is goes back and forth between stating that no man (West) should have all that power, and him stroking his ego raw with lyrics about how his "childlike creativity" was "pure and honest."

Anyway, here's the clip from the film (Disregard the half-naked dancing woman. She's supposed to be a phoenix but her costume just seemed to be a bit much for me).



Here's the original song and music video for Power:

Battles

Battles - Atlas

I love:
the look of the video
the mirrors
the glass cube
the looping of fx and instruments
manipulation of voices
EVERYTHING.....