iconoclasts

Iconoclasts deliberately destroy religioous icons with some kind of religious or political motive. Orlan was an iconoclast when she dressed as st. theresa and turned her into a sexual figure, dancing with crosses that were not always upright. Orlan was an extreme feminist so her art was done with a feminist statement of the way women were viewed and used in cultures and religions.

4th dimensional chair

i wish to say and joseph beuys.

The i wish to say blog is a project by Shannon Oring to get peoples voices heard. she has a type writer set up on a page for people to dictate what they think the president should know, she then sends them to the whitehouse. To this dates she says that more than 2000 postcards have been sent to the whitehouse. The website is very interesting to explore and if you look further you can find other projects like the "creative fix" where a bunch of people are taped saying in one minute what they would do t fix the country.
Joseph bueys was an interesting artist, perhaps most well known for explaining art to a dead rabbit, which is both strange and beautiful. He had kindof a naturalistic statement in a lot of his pieces
This kindof got me talking with my room mate about insanity and artists and why it's ok for artist to be crazy and not committed to a looney bin and what we came up with is that most off people are artistically inclined but the only people to be able to live real lives are the ones who do something with their talent and make it a career. Some serial killers believe they are artists and who's to argue? but they are not able to contain their art to even the edge of accepted insanity and are therefor not celebrated.

the dream machine, what a trip,

Ok so Brion Gysin developed this machine supposedly inspired by the book "The Living Brain". It is a cylinder with slots cut out with a light in the center, it rotates. Viewers of the machine go into trance like states and sometimes feel surrounded by shapes and colors brought on by the dreammachine. sometimes it is reported as being very intense but it is escapable by just opening up your eyes.

I think this machine is fantastic, it induces a trip and alters your state of mind without drugs involved. Im surprised more hippies have not found the location of this machine and just sat there for hours in front of it.

bauhaus

Bauhaus was one of the most important art movements. It was a proponent of modernism and an ode to simplicity and functionality. It was started as an architectural movement in Germany that made building design into art.Bauhaus made mass production and individuality a boundary-less thing. It was innovative in that it was again ne of those first to be done kind of things. The movement made people yet again scratch their heads and really extend their notions of what was art.

grid project

creeping on my roomate.

DADA

"I destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organization: spread demoralization wherever I go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual." -Tristan Tzara
The DaDa movement was an act of rebellion from an underground sick and tired of the world around them. It was a questioning of status quo and mocked all seriousness of such a thing.
Tristan Tzar transported ideas into the sounds they made, he gave meaning to gibberish and therefore made fun of meaningful things.
A believer in prgress Tzara thought that the absurdist ideals would be a luanching point for new ways of thought to step in. He created an open door in art for nonsense and daydreams.