Performances Conclusion

After in the previous project presentation, as precipitator and observer, I have learned many lessons. In the first presentation, which used a beautiful and ugly object, I spend a lot of time to think about the definition of beauty and ugly, how to present their strengths in my presentation; I like the process of observing them and try to define their meaning. As result, I presented my beautiful (a cute pink pen) and ugly object’s (a black face pen) usage effect to express the differences between my beautiful and ugly object. Being a observer, I also learned new lessons from other classmates, each one of them have unique way of defining beauty and ugly; among those presentation, Laiya’s definition, “nothing is actually ugly”, made a deep impression to me, and it reminds me of “nothing is absolute”. Later when I looked at my ugly pen, the longer I looked at it, I started to think its face is kind of cute, in an ugly way.

In the second and third performances, I learned how to work with partners; the purpose was to use multiple objects to do a presentation. In this performance, I learned how to find material and inspiration in my surrounding, and how to use them as tool for the presentation. This project contains large amount of creativity, and I think it’s really important that an artist should always know how to get inspiration, and how to used select objects. Later in the group project, eight people gather together and use multiple objects to present a performance. This project involved group work, and quick ideas.

In those performances, I learn to observed with more details and try to define and understand them; what’s beautiful, what’s ugly, how do I used them for creativity, and how to get inspiration from those items. All of those presentations brought an important lesson for artists, we need to learn how to get inspirited from surrounding, choosing objects, and use them for ideal development. It’s a unique way to learn when I saw other people’s performances, trying to understand their ideas and the messages that they want to deliver.