Well, I forgot to mention last week about our visiting artist for the Photography and Film program, Candice Breitz is a video/installation artist. She was born in South Africa and currently resides in Germany. Her work reflects on pop culture and how we interpret it. The work of hers that I was particularly attracted to was her work where she recorded around 30 people singing an album of a globally popular artist, and showing the commercial and mass produced affects of it, to our personal reactions to it. She let everyone listen to some headphones and sing along to an album, we the viewer don't hear the music, but how the people sing it and act out to it. It's rather funny, to show the impersonality of pop music, with the personal sides of humans. the website is www.candicebreitz.net
3 comments:
Thanks for that link, I enjoyed looking at her work and am sad that I missed her visit. The themes she deals with are provocative and so relevant: sometimes I wonder how pop culture got so out of control, so far away from real life and our actual experience as human beings. She comes at it from a cultural perspective, but her work speaks strongly to me from a female perspective as well.
Andrea
I missed her lecture as well, even tough I meant to go, honestly. In a way I am kind of glad I missed the lecture though. If I had made I feel like I might have had too much insight into the work. Watching King, Queen, and Legend I was captivated. What interesting cultural documents.
Thanks for the link.
-G
Responding to both Andrea Donnelly and Gabriel Craig above, Candice Breitz's works are definitely fascinating cultural documents of popular culture, extracted through a feminist application of deconstruction.
Please see my blog post on Breitz.
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