Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Brilliant vs disjointed

I was in awe of Nam June Paik, I thought his work was so innovative yet at the same time some of his performance art pieces were very simplistic. I really enjoyed the performance art where he was "playing the violin". The way he decontextualized the violin and showed that it could be played just by dragging it down the street was brilliant. I also loved the T.V. Buddha, combining a video installation with one of the most spiritual figures of his culture. The Residents on the other hand were not my favorite. Although, It was hard to be impressed after watching Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody....Amazing! I felt like the resident's music was very strange and hard to listen to. I also did not like the concepts behind their music video. I also REALLy disliked their version of "We Are the World" it was pretty creepy. I do give them a lot of credit for their jump start into the music video but their overall style was not appealing to me.

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