Project Four: Art For Fun!

A four hour long Labor

During which I use Paint of both spray and Brushes to work upon the Pillars on Cornell Campus.

Using this public space as a Public art workshop, I facilitated a painting party for passerbys, watching as painting after painting was created, altered and covered.

I wish my camera had lasted the entire time, Alas, The battery was drained at the half time mark, leaving so many pieces untapped. All that's left of those paintings, those sparks of Individual interest from the minds of my peers, Are the layers of paint now covered by other ads and declarations put on by the peers that come after.

the pillars are a special place in Cornell, They are known as the Kiosk, A location where any student in Cornell with paint and time may put up a work of art and advertisement. We generally keep each other's work sacred for 24 hours, before painting over and painting on, BUt often pillar wars happen, The Greek groups troll each-other during Pledging, for example.

another time a pillar war crops up is when dissenting ideas are thrown on the pillars, and folks react in many ways. color and markings covering the old ones, a dialog of refacing the pillars, a conversation where you build directly upon the last statement with your own, covering it up in the process. This pillar arguments can last days with five or so repaintings thrown up.

Instead of dissent, and arguments, I wanted to produce art from agreement, from expression and the knowledge that with in minutes your piece may be covered or converted. Many people joined me in this task, and latex and spray paint worked their magic as ideas intersected on three seven by two foot canvases.

FOLLOWING: Assorted images from after our camera ran out of Juice.

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The start of something new

(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&

Project Three, Audience Reciprocation

Coming soon! A score from Five friendly classmates in the spirit of Fluxus and John Cage Above you can see the guidelines, the score we crafted together. It guided our Moments in spirit, if not directly as we had integrated elements of chance, random operations. Primarily through the Interactions and reactions experienced between the artists as we performed. Of note is the labeling of our performers as Audience, And a 'Choosey Audience' behind them. As I see it, our performers were viewing and experiencing the moments created by our actions just as much, if not more, than the audience who ere not making sounds, who were only drinking in the experience. we drank in each other's actions, followed light guidance from our member, jasper, and then gave back and reciprocated the experience. Here is this Reciprocation.

Chris Ryerson's Performance Art

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