This weeks Lecture was about this idea that you can find art or meaning in everything and anything. From Duchamp's urinal to John Cages 4'33" they both have this idea that you can take any object or noise and I will bring fourth a meaning of some sort. When we were listening to John Cages recording I heard a person behind me say "what are we listening to?" I think that is the exact reaction he was expecting people to have when listening to his piece. The reaction that he wanted was that people recognized that there is sounds around us and it can be understood as something beautiful and artistic. For the first minute of the recording I heard the fan buzzing and I thought that was the recording. This idea takes the everyday composition of the event and flips that picture to conceive of something out of the ordinary and interesting.
Out of the films we watched in class, Mirror by Robert Morris 1969, really showed the idea of making a picture out of the medium of film. Using a mirror to reflect a landscape while walking in the snow creates this moving image that is recognizable, but at the same time very lost. The jerky movements of the mirror and the smooth contrasting movement of the actual background bring out the idea that something beautiful and artful can be made from basically nothing. The last shot in this film, when Robert backs up with the mirror in hand and reflects the camera man back onto the film shows that this is the same idea that Duchamp and Cage were working with only in the medium of film.
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