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Guerrilla Girls & The Power Of The Mask

The Guerrilla Girls were a group of women whose names are still unknown today who used gorilla masks to allow them to campaign for women’s rights without fear of repercussions in their careers or personal lives.  Their campaign was especially impactful because of the masks they wore, which had a few different effects. First of …

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Pad Thai

The work that caught my eye the most out of these lectures was the Pad Thai piece by Rikrit Taravanija.  This piece was simple – a kitchen set up in the art gallery where he was cooking Pad Thai, and viewers could come up and get a cup of it.  The idea was to emphasize …

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Happy Accidents

The discussion of this dialog between artist and audience, the “horizontal dialog” advocated by many socially engaged artists who care about education, reminded me very much of a show that I have personally watched many times, which aired originally between 1983 and 1994 – Bob Ross’ “The Joy of Painting.”  This show had very good …

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Subversive Mediums & Chris Burden

  Chris Burden, Carp TV Ad, 1975 Chris Burden used television as a platform for his radical performance pieces – crawling over broken glass, almost getting electrocuted, etc.  One of his most interesting pieces to me was his financial disclosure, where he stated that he would be the first artist to make a full financial …

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