February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchHere is a rough version of Euan MacDonald’s lecture
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WatchI was unfortunately unable to attend any of the events focused around Euan MacDonald’s visit to PSU. While listening to the recorded interview between Mr. MacDonald and classmates the conversation around the comment “Conceptual Art is pointing at things” interested me. MacDonald did not wish to frame his work as pointing but rather isolating content. This lead to a discussion of his piece SCLPTR...
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As I Think About Watching an Yvonne Rainer film...
I plan to go home and watch an old rare copy of Yvonne Rainer’s, The Man Who Envied Women later tonight. I looked up the film to find that almost all of her feature length work is on IMDB. The reviews really reflect what makes Rainer’s work continually fascinating. I found only six reviews. Two for each of three films. One review glowing, and the other scathing. The films continue to inspire...
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I am interested in dynamics of change- the effects of time and chance on pictorial and social conditions. My work tries to question the appearance of things, beginning with the presupposition that their images are inherently deceptive and that they are connected within a network of relationships based on illusions.
Euan Macdonald, 2009. (via)
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WatchSara Greenberger Rafferty for PSU Visiting Artist Lecture Series. October 19, 2011.
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Notes on the Yvonne Rainer times
I told her she was very fit and that bikram yoga was very important to me. She told me she thought she was not flexible enough for Yoga (not true, no one is not flexible enough for yoga) and recounted her Martha Graham experience. When I asked her to reveal her routine, she told me she exercises about 40 minutes a day and it involves cardio machines and sometimes ankle weights.
She told me...
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Thoughts on Euan MacDonald's Lecture
He spoke about moving from painting to video. Sarah and Euan both seemed to sort of want to avoid the can of worms that is painting.
Euan spoke about shooting stuff and holding on to for a long time, using it later. I like to do that.
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A Little Ramble
Robert Walser (1878-1956) recounting a trek in the mountains. “I walked through the mountains today,” the account begins. “The weather was damp, and the entire region was gray.” The narrator limits himself to the observable, giving little indication of his interior state. The ending asserts the power of the mundane: “We don’t need to see anything out of the ordinary. We already see so much.”
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“Macdonald quietly unsettles the viewers faith about what exactly is - or is not...”
– Ralph Rugoff, “Responsiveness Testing,” 9,000 Pieces, published by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010
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Euan Macdonald Interviewed live at PSU on Broadway...
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December 2011
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WatchWhen asked about the use of comedic timing in her work Yvonne talked about how its use is important to help bear the load of heavy subject matter.She referred to Steve Martin and Robin Williams as dancers. She did use Robin Williams as inspiration for a portion of choreography in RoS Indexical. I layered the sound track from RoS Indexical over performances by Steve Martin and Robin Williams.
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Response of Yvonne's Workshop
Feeling about exploring my “self”, and disappearing the boundary in between my body and mind, I had amazing experience at Yvonne’s workshop. I have received her performing “Score”, which contained several circles and arrows on the copy paper. I was allowed to interpret any way that I felt. When I started to move through the score, my body and brain were not free from...
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Yvonne Rainer's visit by Mami's note
Yvonne Rainer Lecture Nov. 17, at PNCA “ What is the Passion ”
Self/ Expression Anything human body does express Moments are expressive, treated as physiology
Look At 1)Conceptual/ self consciousness Performer- avoid audiences’ gazes 2) Distinction between performance and dance Selflessness Rational practice, not personal express= self management/presentation...
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Being Watched - Yvonne Rainer & the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty
In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body—stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, and asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie...
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Yvonne Rainer 1965 "No Manifesto"
No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator. No to style. No to camp. No to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer. No to eccentricity. No to moving or being moved
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YouTube comments (partially in conversation) on...
foreverhisbeloved: but was intended as a "clean-scrubbed" dance
foreverhisbeloved: to emphasize a nongendered, natural body.
foreverhisbeloved: This was said by Janice Lapointe-Crump
odyoberfelder: Amazing. Nothing is arbitrary.
riotofdablood: srly, wtf is dizza shit!!!?
gmsoyls: classic rainer.
gmsoyls: @riotofdablood its called modern dance, you dolt.
riotofdablood: @gmsoyls no shit !!
portinfinite: hot
saltspacefilms: I dislike jumping into these conversations, but feel the need to clarify: this is not modern dance, it's post-modern. Yvonne Rainer is one of the key figures who helped initiate and develop this new philosophy (of saying "No" to glamour, to the climax, to narcissism, to technique, etc as delineated in her text, "No Manifesto") around dance in the 1960s. I believe she wanted to show us that even the pedestrian and the mundane could be considered as dance.
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Emotional Minimalism →
On Yvonne Rainer’s memoir, Feelings are Facts.
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Yvonne quotes from our afternoon Q&A:
“Beware of icons.”
“Trust your instincts and experiences.”
“The occupy movement is raising awareness to walls we should be banging our head against.”
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The PSU MFA Studio Practice group, along with...
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“The audience will take care of themselves.”
– Yvonne Rainer during our class visit at PNCA
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November 2011
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October 2011
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GO! PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series
This tumblr is a workshop, a constellation of captured ideas and images around the visiting artists for the MFA Studio Lecture Series at Portland State University. The 13 studio MFA students will be shaping the conversation (via text, image, sound, video both created and found) over the 2011-12 academic year.