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
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
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