March 2013
19 posts
“Which, in her own way, she did. She placed a series of big speakers in her...”
– Marina Abramovic (via snortingpixiedust)
“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere...”
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Scar
It is during dangerous situations in which you learn the true identity of an individual. Of course an obvious reference point is within thriller and horror films, in which true heroes are revealed, set apart from the selfish and cowardly characters who always seem to go first. I’m interested in exploring the psychological aspects which link to morality, specific to each viewer- perhaps an...
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Turn the other cheek
Guillermo Vargas, “Exposición N° 1”, 2007
The commercial success of a work of art (in contemporary society) seems to be reliant on the notoriety of the response, put simply, the more shocking and controversial: the more exposure. The question “DYING DOG AS ART??!” is one undoubtedly heard, with it being the global reaction to Guillermo Vargas (better known as “Habacuc”)’s performance piece from...
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Give and Take
Throughout history emotions have readily influenced works of art, who can deny Roy Lichtenstein’s distinctive tear drop cartooned portraits, or Pablo Picasso’s abstractions of objects (he states, are) “as I think of them, not as I see them”. The relationship between emotions and art is still extensively studied, however, in contemporary art the attention is on it’s counterpart: how art...
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Host
Emotions are what make humans unique, they harbour the potential to destruct and wipe everything clean. It seems a rather futile topic to approach, as even as I write, each word is influenced by my current mood. One cognitive theory of emotion (namely the “Schachter- Singer theory”) suggests that the physiological arousal occurs first, and then the individual must identify the reason behind this...
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You and I.
What defines us as humans, that separates us from other species, plants and inanimate objects? At first glance it’s an easy response: human intelligence -after all we are the species responsible for discovering gravity and solving evolution. Yet are we not the same species who have produced dictators responsible for mass genocides? The same who are first hand responsible for the rapid destruction...
