questions about “gift”

about what we call gift

gift is the stuff which sended to the person who know how to appreciate it and will enjoy it.

about anti-gift

that must be something what can hunt the receivers. maybe that is a bad memory in the past, or maybe that is a afraid thing in the future. in short, anti-gift is the giver remind the bad thing of the receiver.

about unwanted gift

i think that could be understand as unsincerity gift. that could be the stuff what the giver doesn’t want to keep anymore, or the giver has some ulterior motive about it.

about rejection

for me, first I will reject the unwanted gift (talked above). secondly, I will reject loopback gift because that is also unsincerely. third, I will reject the gift from the person who I hate.

about status relationship

gift always tires people. make poor guy be more poor,make rich person become more and more rich. I have saw a news: on the Mayer’s 50 years old birthday, every villager went to celebrate it. the Mayer hold his birthday party on the hall of the goverment office building, with the big poster on his name. one poor villager even sell his blood to please the Mayer…

about selfishness

selfish people will not care others, they will not spend lots of money or lots attention on gift. they give what they detest and rejest thing.

I don’t understand what is “code around receiving” mean?

gifts tire us

I chosed RED PACKET (a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions) as the object of gift project, as it is the most popular and common gift in Asia.

It comes from a story which I read from newspaper: on wedding, a poor friend of the new couple who had no money to present a trick red packet to bride and groom. Then he put a piece of newspaper inside it, with a big smile, he successfully got though the wedding...

Do you have this kind of experience? For instant, six of your friends have their birthday partys in the same month. In that month, did you feel your wallet become even flat?

Gifts always tire us. They make people extremely tired, feel helpless and embarrassing, even, these socalled gifts make the relationship break up, in addition, they make the interpersonal sociality become more and more complicated and unpure.

Overpowering Power - group work 2

by Filipe, Heejung, Cherry

That's a performance combined three parts text of we three:
In short, the first one is a news of murder about a woman. The second one is a story of a disabled person's inward world. And the last one, tells the story about selling and buying plants in Sahara Desert.

We try to find the common ground between three texts, that's the most difficult part. First, I think that could be made a main role having three identitys together at the same time, then link every part one by one. Then Filipe find that those three are all about power, they all have someone in power someone not, somebody strong somebody weak, and the main role are all competing and struggling with the power. That's ture! That point made me wake, then every thing become easy...

Our performance turned to present the murder, like the news broadcaster, accompanying some simple movement, such as disabled people stretching out his arms, traveller buying plants, and we repeat some keywords of that, without any facial expression.

Now, we have the white space, black clothes, three green plants, three tv set, three wheelchairs, and three broadcasters speaking English, Korean and Chinese.

So, that's our Overpowering Power, looking forward tomorrow's play.

Consumption - group work 1

by Kappa, Yoori, Cherry

That's a projection project with water.

In order to present that the earth is being destoyed more and more, we separated it into three part, as the stages, in different colors. They are clean, yellow (or green), and black, as the symbol of nature.

We made the background in cartoon as the subject of city and natual, which played in the two-sided windows, with the puppet (fish) falling and moving in water,then covered by the dark. The puppet divided in cartoon fish and various language of "fish" to represent the natual world and civilization world. Then, an projector worked at the middle window making the shadow of colorful earth.

Lovely image, and happy cooperation.

reading notes for Chapter 1

1,LIVENESS
You can get the sence of performance by photographes or videos,but you can not have the fully experience,as the life energy is missing, missing something that you establish with the public, and any kind of media can not catch it. so, you have to there. That's the main difference between performance and film, TV and so forth.

2,CRITICAL TOOL IN THIS ERA
Performance is never die as a kind of art, even time is crisis. Somehow performance is appear, performanting means public take the active role in view of the pieces, not just a observer, but also actor to be in the pieces. But there are so many roles, maybe museum, maybe gallery, how interact with this possible and imposible, so the really perfomative work doesnt really work, because the public don't how to deal with that.

3,AN EPISODE OF SEX AND THE CITY
Sex, as a part of nature, also the absolutely necessary in city,is always the timeless and omnipotent subject.

5,EXPANDING IN SPACE
Flexible, do it as flexible as you can.

6,EPHEMERAL NATURE AND ENDLESS POWER
In some situation, we can't say the exactly meaning that delivered by the work of art, but we really being touched and being pushed at that time. Body language is more powerful than anything come out from your mouth, and the body (nature) could exist much long time than the language by the word of mouth, that's the power of nature, not just be concerned by the surrealism.

the small tell the great truth - research 2 of personal work

Javier Mariscal's Cobi was been shown in design museum in the other day. One of his works is a model of car, Cobi drivng inside and having a chat with his friend in screne.

Mariscal made Cobi live as human-being, it enjoys the sunshine on the beach, it drinks beer in the pub, and Cobi thinks social life as well.

On the other hand, Cobi is Mariscal's mouth, speak in simple sentences, in a humor manner, but tell the great truth.Animation is not only for children.

starting from "putting oneself into others shoes"- research 1 of personal work

Putting oneself into another shoes is my start point. See something as another angle and the angle could be everything, but not your own eyes.

Why?

Take the dialogue which happened a few days ago as an example. My friend and I was talking over our view of our motherland of the opposite side. He point out some impression of my country (he is not chinese) which reserving with mine and I never heard before. That made me think from the opposite's point of view to get an objective understanding.

How?

At that time, a piece of cartoon came into my sight. That is a frog, wearing dress, necklace and silk stockings, sitting on sofa, having potato chips, and watching soap opera. That's a funny image. Then a piece of idea called to my mind: why not choosing animal's angle to see our human's life? That mustn't be animals, could be any other kind of living things. By personification, let the living thing to tell the social world.

Then how?

According to personification, I would like to pick animation, that could be several ways, and there are so many examples of that:

1, in plane (Doraemon)

2, in 3D (Toy Story)

3, in puppet (Sesame Street)

4, in person (The Lion King)