Attended the MFA open studios. El Jame Lin, the man who read poetry and stripped gave me aesthetically pleasing, amusing art to mentally devour. Can be found at www.vimeo.com/linmiao The first piece consisted of a collaboration between him and Miao to create porn projects that were live-feeds on a porn website. Then the users comments while the video was streaming were used as part of the project. Finally, stills were taken from the video and made into photographs. This work was stimulating because it was beautifully executed, challenged the porn watchers, and presented the SAIC community with a full range of performance/photo/video.
In the lineup for mind-blowing installation piece from Ji Youn Hong. http://hongjiyoun.com/ Her piece started from 4 photographs depicting four disparate scenes. There were objects in the photograph which became the central, starting points for the sculptural installation. The piece exemplifies the highly experimental and confusing standards by which I think art should be made. Everything looks confusing, but there are hidden gems that allow the rare double-take.
Overall, I only made it to the Sullivan galleries, but it was great to see friends and what the graduate students are exploring. I can't help but wonder if the feeling is similar for the rich folks when they go to gallery openings and get to chit-chat with their fellow men/women. In one of the galleries, Guerremo (sp) was selling his housewares. haha. Was this the piece or not? Does it matter?
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