chaimflores
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collab with maria aun erika
In progress- finished product
Abstract
For our final project site specific work we chose to use a location with a body of water, we started with a beach and looked more closer to our homes and campus to be more relate-able to our own lives and after some visits and discussions we found ourselves in Echo Park. Our object is going to be a model of sorts of a pole used in a MesoAmerican ritual tha was widely practiced in Mexico and Central American but only survives today in the land of the Totonac people of the veracruz region of Mexico. This ritual is called “Dance of the Flyers”. The materials we want to use are things we could find in the studio or at home, which could be wood, string, old clothes and fabric. The ritual is said to be when the creation of the world began when the world was wet so we hope to place the pole of the flying dances next to a body of water to connect it to the very beginnings of the world according to our ancestors.
Politics of Installation
in some cases can the term art history/historian take the place of curator ?
is visiting elitist museums the same as going to a concert or movie?
Palmer Reading
Did the author use sexual under tones to highlight her carnal desire to create shape?
Do some educational systems hinder creation ?
during constuction of enzo marri chair
no other known pictures survive.
abstract foam project
Site-specific project
Its Lag B’Omer
Union Pacific East Los Angeles Station.
(via Travel Soviet Union postcard (vintage reproduction) - Soviet Middle Asia, 1934)
(via Travel Soviet Union postcard (vintage reproduction) - Armenia 1935)
Armenia, El Salvador
only 1 of 4 synagogues in El Salvador. a growing congregation.
The Old New World.
makes me wish i could ride the the whittier line to huntington park
My lovely classmates ...Erika Linda Mario and Yvonne hhah
The beautiful 1910 Synagogue of Congregation Edath Lei'Isroel Ansche Meseritz in Manhattan’s Lower East side.
last year i went to new york and spent days searching for synagogues, i came to this one hoping to see the stained glass window of the star of David which dominates the interior but it had already boarded up. a few days ago i read that this building is being transformed to house condos on the upper floor...
On May 9 Russia celebrates Victory Day which marks the end of World War II. My grandfather (he was a tankman and a radio operator during the war) received these postcards in the mail in the 80s.
God bless you who lived through the war to win a peaceful future for us. You are fewer and fewer every year. I hope that it wasn’t in vain; that we nor our children nor their children will ever experience what you did. You, who are here and who are not anymore, are in our hearts. Today and every day.
C Днём победы!
Commitment.
Detached
Art History
a picture really is worth a thousand words.
a bit late pero Happy May Day, to world peace and the worker.
Globe as a symbol of the world in May 1 postcards
“he” is self aware.
Two years ago during a renovation of an old building in Lublin (Poland) a collection of 3000 pre-war glass negatives showing Jewish and Polish life in Lublin and vicinity was found. The negatives were given to The Grodzka Gate NN Theatre center in Lublin, carefully cleaned, scanned and studied. Some of the negatives have inscriptions in Yiddish (like the one here showing members of Morgenshtern football team from Lublin), some have inscriptions in Polish. Recently it was discovered that the author of the collection was probably Mr Abram Zylberberg. Almost nothing is known about the misterious photographer. If you recognize a face from some photo or if you know anything about the photographer, please write an email to: negatywy@tnn.lublin.pl
The entire collection and its history: http://negatywy.teatrnn.pl
di mayse fun der gehikhte iz aza min historye
ubu web film aun video
Factor Green:
1. what does the placement of the garish green box in front of Tinroretto’s the Translation of the Body of Saint Mark symbolize ? anything ?
2. why green ?
T-Bar 1966:
1. with the exclusion of the sound effects being made was this an absence of presence?
2. is the actor Nauman?
GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction:
1. the robo-voice got more clear as the video went on.. becoming more aware, is this a lot like man’s self awareness? Like this machine we were also created.
2. I also noticed our tangible cultural flashing before on eyes on screen,turkic rock cravings, the staff of hermes, etc have our own achievements peaked ?
Murakami’s Inochi
1. inochi has an enlarged brain and healthy sex drive, are these two examples stuff that cant be bought directly but through the pursuit of buying stuff are we able to gain them?
2. are (Japanese)people alive ? living?
amber & the chair
I had no idea where it was headed and just saw what I felt was a women who had been disconnected from an identity or any existence. The lifelessness of the amber doll highlights for me the culture of capitalistic individualism where women are detached from their roles as loved mothers, sisters, and any important identity in their communities and society. This detachment allows for women to been as lifeless as the doll on the table. While the doll was transformed she watched clips of documentary about whales being kept in captivity for man’s pleasure which has caused quite a conservation about wild animals in captivity. I have seen videos on social media, read articles about the financial backlash companies have faced. Swanson choose the whale as final form possibly to help her viewers realize how we never talk about how women are declared as objects but more easily talk about whales.
Looking at the chair it is something we made to be purely functional, something perhaps we take for granted, with a transformation it takes on a different form, it will be something that would be consciously noted. ...maybe
Tree of Life Holocaust Memorial
“In a courtyard of the (Great) synagogue, they had a sobering reminder of the Holocaust that happened to 600,000 Hungarian jews. It was partially funded by actor Tony Curtis who is Hungarian-American. It is in the shape of a weeping willow but the leaves are tags imprinted with a name of some of the Jews who died during the Holocaust.”
Image & info via Hey Puppy.