Performance Art

Living in Florida my entire life, I've never done the typical winter activities like build a snowman. Instead, my friends and I usually go to the beach Christmas night or on Christmas eve as it's usually in the high 70 to 80s. Therefore, we (Milenda Clark , Emily Proffitt, myself) decided to take a sculpture of a snowman and create it in the Florida weather which would be taking it out of it's normal environment. This required using materials other than snow and ended up bringing a little Christmas spirit to Tampa in the process. While putting together this snowman made out of plastic cups, we played Christmas music and had many onlookers. When were about done we had some people asking to take photos with it because it was cute and unique to see someone building a "snowman" in Florida. The completed snowman was about 3 ft tall and 1 1/2 ft wide. The video is linked below.

My three influences for this project were:
Gilbert & George - The Singing Sculpture which is an 8 hour singing sculpture performance. I like how they took the a idea of a sculpture which is an inanimate object and made it live.
Stelarc's "Ear on Arm" sculpture and project. Stelarc had several art pieces were he placed an ear on an arm. This is taking a sculpture and adding an unexpected object to it.
Swiss artist Victorine Mueller who encases herself in her sculptures which are made from balloons or pvc pipes.

All these art pieces take a sculpture and add an unexpected element like singing, an out of place object, or a live person inside. These pieces required technology to create the sculpture or the appearance of a sculpture in the case of Gilbert & George.  I think the future of performance art includes live streaming and social media. Artists will be able to reach a larger audience and have more impact using these new technologies

Snowman

Music

The five music movements i have chosen are punk, nineties, girl power, electronic, and disco.

Punk: I chose the ramones; I feel like they are very similar to green day in their style of music. they have the sameish tempo in their beats and also the singing style is similar. you can also bring it down to the fact that they use the same instruments as the other and their production style is the same.
Green Day

Nineties: I chose Radio head I believe they are similar to a coldplay. The song that came to my mind when I thought of radiohead was "lift" (linked below) I instantly thought of coldplay "the scientist"  (linked below). These two songs are similar in tone both very mellow and they both have some kind of story telling aspect to their music.
Radiohead
Coldplay

Girl Power: For Girl power i was inspired to choose Icona Pop only because i was a fan of them and have seen them perform before while on tour. i thought they resembled another popular band that was around while they were popular which is walk the moon who i have also had the pleasure of seeing on tour. they definitely take the same sound. very techno but fun and strong at the same time i can hear a lot of similar instruments between them.
Walk the moon
Icona Pop

Electronic: David Guetta is one of my favorite EDM artist. his music is amazing and tells a story. i chose to compare them to aronchupa. Aronchupa takes a more playful approach to EDM but i feel like the beats come from the same inspiration. EDM is a very similar and close knit community coming to standing out would be hard but they both take that on by singing in their songs more than some other artist. that's why i grouped them together.
Aronchupa

Disco: Bee gees they were very high pitched and fast paced music. this was hard to find a comparable person and took some time, so i went with Justin Timberlake. Justin is very high pitched singer ( not as high as the bee gees) they are both danceish music.
Justin Timberlake

Xerox Art

My inspiration for this is Vincent Van Gogh. His abstract concept to a real scene has always intrigued me. I recreated this inspiration by photo copying my hair in many different lengths styled it differently each time I even dragged my hair in a big zag form across the scanner as it was scanning to make it appear as if my hair magically grew like 8 inches. The bottom of this image is supposed to be hay. My name is Haley and the meaning behind my name is hay meadow so I wanted to incorporate that, so intentionally the art looks like a hay field. I hope you enjoy my interpretation of Vincent Van Gogh's abstract view of scenery.(4x2)

Grid Art

Hi, I did my grid Art using roofing nails. I took the approach of a typical 30x30 square grid. After I had all 900 nails in the boards I proceeded to paint them I referenced a picture of a concert audience silhouette since I love concerts and some how I make it into every concert audience picture of the shows I go to. When I painted the nails I then pushed some nails at different heights and put some at an angle to make it 3D. I hope you like it!