What is an Image (DP)

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Prompt 1 An image that attracts you
I began to see the art from the western contemporary artists, my upcoming fellows. It was really different from the impression I got from those classic oil paintings and sculptures seated in Met and Louvre.

Prompt 2 What happens?

Prompt 3 There is nothing to see, so we look

I began to think if we got blind, what would happen. There is a boy in Columbia, he is blind, but he came to the campus everyday by himself without any help. I was so curious about his world. The specialty of him really inspired me.

Prompt 4 Change the world

It was Peter Fend, who made me really confused and struggled. I began asking, it’s art???!!!! Actually, I still doubt till now.

Prompt 5 Politics

I began to think about the relation between the image and language.

Prompt 6 Internal & External world

Actually, image is one of the things connecting our internal world and external world.

Prompt 7 Manifesto, My psychic atlas

I began to think about why I make images, or arts, to satisfy myself or to please others? Part of me want to be approved by my fellows, by the viewers, by the public, while part of me don’t want to cater to the people around, I want to keep my own identity. On one hand, I believe that a lot of artists can dance in their own stage without audience. I really respect that. Actually, a lot of great artists lived in their own world alone for a long time, even a life time. On the other hand, the aesthetic standard is created by human society, so it’s nearly impossible to escape.

I got the idea from Peter Fend that, art should do something more. I hope my works have the power to influence people, to make the world a better place. As a result, I will still live under the judgments. For me, I have to find the balance myself.

Midterm Pecha Kucha

I love the super intensive Pecha Kucha. I love ideas. I love the difference perspectives from the artists. Everyone loves.

Prompt 9 This is a Forgery

Is there anything I want to own so much that I even want to steal, to rob, or just forge? But art for me is something perceived by eyes, lock in mind. It’s not necessary own the concrete piece. If I want to forge, it must be a part of the other plan.

Promp 10 1-minute film

I began to rethink my way to create a work. I always want some clear ideas in my work. Can you think in an abstract way? Maybe this is the door to a new world for me.

Promp 11 What is image

It can be anything makes you feel.

But it’s still not real.

This is a Forgery (DP)

Forgery, I hope it will be an artistic method I use to protect something, something vanishing.

It’s “QiLou”, the traditional Cantonese architecture with a long last history of the Lingnan Culture in south China. Why do I forge these old building? They are vanishing in the modernization of the city, removed by the government, in order to give space for the modern skyscrapers. But everyone knows that, they are the precious cultural legacy of our own, with memory of older and younger generations.

I will go and visit the old building, make a real size forgery, and then auction it, not really for profit, but as a part of an art project, the call the attention and protection of our traditional culture.

MANIFESTO 2012

To follow are 139 statements towards a working Manifesto by the members of Eye & Idea 2012.

PAY ATTENTION MOTHERFUCKERS

1. Curiosity is my inspiration. The class is the reason I took this class.
2. My work is about the suspense that comes with the loss of balance, and the resulting tales that come with the process of regaining equilibrium.
3. Balance is:
4. …About things in moderation.
5. …Things in various perspectives.
6. …Expensive Jordans and an unassuming gait on Erie Ave.
7. …Understanding nature, yet avoiding animals.
8. …Using both experience and knowledge to inform lines.
9. …Knowing when to hang it up.
10. Art is for the birds, flamboyant types, but I couldn’t stand to let it go, the craft, the gaggle, so they kept flappin’ until I ended up in Manhattan where all of the artists live.
11. Was it better the way it used to be,
12. When we could all speak telepathically,
13. With no need for science, religion, or math,
14. Because we knew everything, and knew not to ask?
15. «We are circling around in the night and are devoured by fire » : I have no time, I have no more time, I am the burn, and I am elsewhere. We do not have enough of one life to taste what this entire universe harbors, every opportunity must be ceased.
16. get it out of your head
17. look
18. digest
19. execute
20. mock
21. be kind
22. primal
23. artificial
24. mislead
25. misunderstand
26. misrepresent
27. not always a wall
28. multiple
29. Everyone interprets truth differently.
30. Believe in something.
31. Love someone.
32. Love something.
33. Eat healthy.
34. There are people who manipulate. Avoid these people.
35. Treat people with respect.
36. Everything ok?
37. Hey, are you back yet?
38. What’s up?
39. Are you alive?
40. What do you want to do?
41. What’s going on?
42. Where are you?
43. What do you mean, “I’m not sure?”
44. Why?
45. What is your reasoning?
46. What’re you doing tonight?
47. What the FUCK?
48. Where are you?
49. What do you want out of this?
50. Pay attention
51. Frustration is an opportunity
52. Become a ninja
53. Be ruthless about your intentions
54. Embarrass yourself
55. Wax
56. Notice what keeps you up at night
57. Appropriate the accident for your own intention
58. emancipation
59. alien
60. memory
61. mythology
62. Are you doing art work to satisfy yourself or please others?
63. One day, I’m angry at the world and decide to do whatever pleases me, weird, exotic, odd, and random.
64. Strangers pass by, cold, numb, without looking at me, without answering any questions, until I finally find out that word, that password, for any reaction----Pick a random one, say “I love you”, say “Je t’aime”, say “Te amo”.
65. Open the third door, I fell into the gap between times and places, a journey begins, different scenes are altering in front of me, until I catch the real one, the concrete one, something not an illusion.
66. Feel it.
67. I WANT TO MAKE THE KIND OF ART I WANT TO INHABIT. I WANT TO STOP STUMBLING OVER CONCEPTS I WANT TO MAKE A SPACE FOR CONCEPTS TO BREED AND MULTIPLY AND DISSOLVE.
68. I WANT TO MAKE ART TO GET STUCK IN. I WANT TO STICK YOU.
69. I WANT YOU FORGET I WAS EVER THERE AND GET LOST IN YOURSELF. I WANT YOU TO PUT YOUR EAR TO STONE & OPEN YOUR HEART TO THE SKY EXCEPT NOT AS ANNOYING.
70. Language is death. Art points beyond itself.
71. THAT BLIND FARMER ONCE TOLD SKI THAT CHORE BIGGEST CRIME STUCK
A RAISIN IN THE SHADE MY BRAVE LIT TIL ENGINE [TH] AT COULD [STOP] THE PARTY UP HIS RALLY [ING] HAND EDUCATION
TO FRUITION ON MY PARTION BE TWEENS LIKE TO SUCKLE AND CU DDLEPUDDLEPU BURP SNEEZE NO
72. The history of the present institution is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these artistic minds. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. The Academy has refused enough freedom, the most wholesome and necessary for the artistic good.
73. Her Majesty
74. Trying to Not fall off of the back of bicycles..
75. This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2OdPDEG6aQ
76. Also This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHf7TD4qwjk
77. Also This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxeSadruMI
78. Being Hilarious
79. Being Super F*cking Hilarious
80. Being Quiet. Chocolate Jesus. The Jerk. "You mean I'm gonna stay this color"
81. ONE LINERS
82. Everything about this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8NuFAETMQ
83. It takes courage to follow one’s intuition and creativity but the rewards tend to be great. I like the sense of experimentation and collaboration in art. You can try something and fail or succeed, and look at the work of someone who had the same idea, and what they did with it: you’re never alone in your explorations.
84. Just need to learn to see it.
85. Photos - camera is eye.
86. No significant alterations though. (Where is the line drawn? Is there one?)
87. We all see things differently anyway. Who’s to say someone doesn’t already see it that way?
88. Closeups.
89. Me. For me.
90. Not creating - altering.
91. an event that is different from real life makes you think about "real life"
92. the opening as a performance, the exhibition is its afterlife and the objects are the artifacts
93. artist as producer, organizer, catalyst of object-making environment
94. MAKE 1 GOOD PAINTING
95. The object carries the story of how it was made but it is also beautiful, it can travel independently. The value of how it came to be is now inextricable from an object. So the object is a story.
96. the audience came freely but now they are trapped
97. CHOICE
98. lead me by the hand, spoon-feed it to me
99. "Trooping into her apartment as individuals, her subjects nonetheless left behind likenesses that formed groups along its walls and ultimately a crowd"
100. and then THAT happened
101. The way that you show it relates to the initial experience: if you were there, you know. if not you're still cool
102. אותי זה מעניין אז אותך זה יעניין
לא -- רק אותי זה מעניין. ואם אני רוצה שזה יעניין אותך אני צריכה לעניין אותך
103. Debris/piles of stuff/leftovers
104. Thigh Masters
105. Consumer Culture
106. Fabio, spokesman for fake butter
107. Reality TV
108. Disposable pop culture
109. Contradiction
110. Sweating to the Oldies
111. Amish livestock auctions
112. Interchanging Vowel Sounds
113. Whoever designs the packaging for generic laundry detergent
114. Plastic Surgery=New Media
115. Departures without arrivals
116. Unreal/ uncomfortable/ untrue
117. Eye sore
118. Eyeball
119. Delineate conditions of the seen
120. Absent arrivals
121. Looking and seeing
122. Modes of seeing
123. Is color that important?
124. Non-color dreams:
125. The continuous life span of found objects: object-hood
126. Found identity
127. Sexuality in excess
128. To Do / To Don’t Do:
129. Overanalyze
130. Overreact
131. Be stubborn
132. It’s not my fault
133. Learn to drive
134. Repeat mistakes
135. Be pissed
136. Forgive
137. Judge
138. Read literature
139. Let it go

Interior/Exterior (DP)

Internal

External

Internal world, which seems small and close, can be large, abundant, various and personalized. It’s just raised up with you.

External world, which seems large abundant, various, can be limited, constrained. It’s build up by human being, animal, plants, virus and basically, elements. You are participating, and also participated.

Political Image (DP)

When a child holding flowers in their hands comes to you, sitting on your leg, grasping your thigh tightly, begging you for money, they’ve already sunken in the deepest panic and desperation.

There are some children living in the city like this. Their representative is the gesture-holding people’s leg.

But there is a long long story behind them.

They are forced to do so. They lost their family and have nowhere to go.

They live with the kidnappers.

These are the children controlled by the most conscienceless bad eggs, forced to sell flowers to the passers-by and earn money every day. If they can’t sell as much as required, they will be treated with great cruelty.

I’ve seen the cigarette scald on a little girl’s hand.

Prompt 4: Change your world (DP)

COLUMBIA PROJECT

Actually, I’m now experiencing one of the biggest changes of my life—coming to Columbia and spend a semester in New York. So I’m going to do a project with my own life.
How can I make the most out of the change happening at the moment?

A new life in an entirely new place can always make a difference. When I was in Brunei, the peaceful Islamic country impressed me a lot, and at the same time, exerted great changes on me, the primary school girl. So when I’m stuck in something or want a change, I will find a place. Take the bag and go somewhere, this is what I would like to do to change my life.

Step 1: A plane ticket to New York, that’s all you need to experience the whole new world.









Step 2: Explore the campus and make the most out of it.

How to change? By exposing, by experiencing.
Make a study about the campus and talk to some experienced people about it.

There must be a lot of interesting places in the campus. At the same time, it’s a big challenge for me, how to make good use of all the material and arrange my time in one semester. Where can I find some academic opportunity? Where can I meet some great people? Where can I find something cool? How can I really be a part of an American school?

The point is, how can I expose myself most to the change, and don’t be conservative.

My personal map will guide me somewhere, with my academic preference, personal interest, and future life planning.

Step 3: From Columbia to New York.

There is one important thing that can’t be ignored, the New York city. Columbia cannot live without New York, and so can’t I. Education only count when it’s applied to the society. My life cannot be restricted in the campus.

So the next thing to do is completing my personal New York City map. Find out the places inspire me, the places with opportunity and the cool people here.

DP: There is Nothing to See So We Look

The human eye is the door connecting the inner spiritual world and the outside actual world, just like a thin paper between the two.

Once the eyes are closed, outside world is totally separated, and this is also the moment we begin to explore our own.

There is nothing to see, so we look

There is nothing to see, so we can look

There is nothing to see, so we can look more clearly

There is nothing to see, only then can we look more clearly

What Happens? (DP)

What happens?

A Necklace Put Next to a Red Delicious Apple

----the appearance of religion in the apple world

On Earth, there are thousands of different kinds of apple. And these apples have their own little world. In the human society, countries are differently developed, so fruits will have their different fate by transportation and purchasing. In the apple market, they are sold with different prices. According to this, they have their own classes. And certainly, the more pricing apple enjoys a higher status. And red delicious happen to be in the top.

One day, a red delicious is bought by a wealthy family in a developed country. It’s brought home and well settled. And somehow, a necklace of the mistress is placed just next to one big red delicious. The apple is so exited and delighted, the delicate necklace makes it look so different and even more respectful than before in the apple world. As time goes by, the apple wants to rule the world while the others are deeply worried about their being-eaten destiny and want to survive, so something about the super natural power spread out among the apples. They begin to believe that the decorated big red delicious is really something.

Then, the religion in the apple world appears.

Prompt 1 (DP)

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It’s a small animation lasting for about 1 minute. Originally, this is an advertisement made for LIPTON mike tea by a group of people led by me. As an advertisement, it’s passing the New Year blessings through, including love, happiness and good fortune. The little boys and girls decorated in traditional ways put these three things into the lucky money pocket. And it turns out to be a cup of tea for everyone’s family and friends with all the blessings and wishes.

I find it compelling in several ways especially during the Chinese New Year. Put the last few seconds aside, ignore the advertising things first, it’s filled with the New Year atmosphere, the memory of special days striving for a certain goal and the respect for traditional art showed by the young generation in a time that traditional things are diminishing every minute.

This is a video made by very traditional Chinese art, paper cutting. In the old days, paper cutting is often used for decoration during the New Year time made by the village craftsmen. But nowadays, it varies and is used here. In paper cutting, every single element can become abundant, not only outside, but also inside. The patterns on the little, on the pot, on the cup are not just for beauty, but for describing the characters of everything, even a pot. Flowers, which can be seen in everywhere, represents New Year and happiness. Cloud represents peace and harmony, while coins represent lucky money for the children. I love these symbolized things, which give life to every characters, just like the facial makeup in Chinese operas. And they are beautifully organized in a very special way.

Jan. 23th is the Chinese lunar New Year, as a student living abroad alone, I’m more absorbed by the traditional art which brings me atmosphere of a new year and reminding me the feeling of beginning another lunar year. Maybe it also kind of represents family and friends, all the happy moment connected with tradition and reminded by tradition.

Although not being made by any famous artist, it’s still my favorite work till now. It represents the days all producers work together 12 hours a day cutting the red papers, studying traditional art and thinking about meanings and ideas. A special and precious memory is stored in this video, so it’s even more compelling to me.