worst readings ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Readings: Zizek's writing on Rumsfeld and Unknown Knowns, 2009; Goode, Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss, 2000; Frontline: Digital Nation, 2010

First off I refuse to talk about the first article so I'm just going to skip that one and go on to the next. The one titled Ignorance is Bliss was just about how people who are incompetent usually don't know that they are incompetent and just self assure themselves that they aren't and just repeat the same mistakes.  Then the Digital Nation video was about how Technology is really distracting us rather than helping us.

As for any of this being in my art the only one I could think of would be the video because lets fact it, Japan is pretty much 20 years in the future from us and as to technology in my art, I would rather it be broken and not usable.

readings

Zizek on Crossdressing to the sound of Music, 2010 and Sound of Music/ Antwerp Station, 2009

As for the first video with Zizek, I couldn't really make out what he was saying, but thankfully there was some text and of his talk on Nazis pretending to be Jews so they can get to the same amount of power.  Which I think isn't a bad idea since I do believe that Hitler's mother was a Jew, and that would make him a Jew, but that would mean that he's trying to be a Jew as a Nazi as a Jew....
The second video of the dancers in the Antwerp Station was very amusing but in a way it was like the first video and not because it had to do with the Sound of Music.  If anything I think it has to do with the idea of pretending and being something you're not, as these people were just dancing to a song from the Sound of Music at a station in Antwerp which to me is random and out of context.....

But I guess in a way I do this with my own art as I pretend to be another person and submerge myself in Japanese culture......

readings

The readings were of Claire Bishop's Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics, 2004 and Mark Byrne's How Marina Abramovic's Red-Velvet Rope at MOMA Works, May 24, 2010.  I think that both of the readings in a sense are about the relationship with people in a piece or in a gallery space.  In Bishop's article she compared artist's work with each other that involved installation and gallery space with people.  While in Byrne's articles it was about a single artist who's piece involved people waiting in line to sit in front of her and the relationship between them.

But as for me using this type of idea my art is something I've never thought of or even take into consideration while I'm making art, but knowing myself I probably do so without even knowing it.