Chris Ryerson's Performance Art

on the first day of our first personal projects, I sat down in front of the class at the end of the performance period and set to work on the Soda cans that I had asked the class to empty earlier through means of drinking. I engaged them in my performance openly from the start, stating that i needed empty cans, and so they did help me.  And what I did with them was simple, I wrapped my lips about the lip of the first can and inhaled, Crushing the can in but a moment. there were gasps, and chuckles, and I continued, Crushing each can in succession, playing with pacing and repetition. I lined cans up and crushed them rapidly, I crushed a can facing left, a can facing right, and many more jut looking forward at my audience. My work garnered a Specific reaction from my Audience that struck my fancy: Surprise.  There was surprise at the simple fact that what I just did was possible, There was surprise at the repetition of my action, the speed of it, and the sounds that we

(Ink Smalls, 3" x 3" paintings I make by the bushel with ink and acrylic, I like to think of them as Moments of Impulse put to paper) Hello and welcome to my new Experience. (Experience with a Capital E because I capitalize words as I type that are capitalized in my thoughts. I would normally edit it out, But I'll be lowering some of my filters for this blog, For the work I will be producing.) This Experience will be the explorations and investigations of Intermedia and Performance Art in my final Block of Cornell College: ART 306 Intermedia Art. I can not predict what kind of work I'll produce, nor what exactly i'll be sharing on this blog, But I know It will be fun! At this moment, I know Performance art to be Action of art as much as it is a Product of art. In some cases, It is movement, sound, activity and experience, Some times it has audiences, is video taped, or recorded, shared into posterity and view-able, knowable separate from  the Performer&