Kati

What I got from Kaprow's statements from his "Art Which Can't Be Art" message is the inability to define what art can and can't be. From the famed dadaist Marcel Duchamp to the Kaprow's own short description of his art-identified activities, he explains to us the challenge of what can be known as art and what noy. Kaprow points out how Dadaist art like Duchamp's famed "R.Mutt" urinal to even Andy Warhol's pyramid of Bristol boxes (not mentioned in the article) changed art by taking found, everyday objects unseen as art and placing it in a museum such as art would be. The concept of art is challenged.
Then, if art can really be found as anything we normally come into contact with that is originally not seen as art, can anything be art? Can Kaprow's example of brushing our teeth be accepted as art even though we, Kaprow's audience, do not view it as such?

I wonder if this might be true.
Definately when I brushed my teeth this morning, for instance, I was not thinking "look at the art I'm creating!" I was more focused on how if I get this done fast enough I can catch my Bart ride to school. I definitely do not see it similar to sitting down to paint or draw or do anything I consider creative.

However, I did like Kaprow's explanation of his toothbrushing experience. From observing the tension between his fingers holding the brush, to the expression made when brushing. He just looked at himself while doing it, taking notice of how he might have to make a visit to the dentist while noticing how he is no different than anyone else in his oral hygiene upkeep.

I found it fascinating that he would learn so much of himself even in something so ordinary as toothbrushing.
Then, I think the question should be, is art characterized as something that allows self-discovery? Yet, is it only capable through something creative?

Not this gizmo

This one:

Look at a friend, relative, or stranger for 5 seconds. Then look away from that person and draw what you remember for 30 seconds. It could be the person's image or an abstract representation of their personality. When you stop, look at the person. What do you see now? (If your person has walked away, find another until you can do all the steps above.)

I received Xander's instructions to listen to a favorite artist's song. Paint or draw 20 seconds of your favorite part of the song. What a fun assignment! I don't know what else to say besides that I made about 7 of these from a collection of three songs with plans to make more. I hope to upload them soon

....until then

Again, my instructions were to listen to a song from a favorite artist. Draw your favorite 20 seconds of this song.
However,I really couldn't do one song or even one drawing from this activity. These were all the versions that I made. I was hoping to get the music sample, but all I got were the videos for each song. Try to listen to each song without watching the video and maybe draw what you see. Enjoy!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/spacegirl55/strangelittlegirl.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/spacegirl55/stranglelittlegirl-colorblue.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v734/spacegirl55/skindeep.png

Correction on the last blog: I'd say these were my top three of the several I made. Not indeed all the images that I created.

This is a response to the reading on "The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism"

I couldn't help but find the art movements on the site http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html to hold a sense of wonder and excitement to them. I found them to be amazing! Maybe I just seem to hold interest uncoventional art that plays with peoples reactions and everyday "norm."
However, I did find the articles to be very similiar to the Yoko Ono instructions. Although these seemed to hold a more aggresive tone to them than her instructions. Yet, I feel they left you excited with the tasks described accompanied by the author's opinions of what is art, what is not, and the emphasis the media has on either.
For instance, the Poetic Terrorism frequently cried out to it's reader instructions of art more so than Yoko's instructions. I felt as if that art was a thing that couldn't be confined, controlled, or categorized. That it was something shocking, something illegal, something that should continuously encourage one thing, a public reaction. "Art is crime. Crime is Art," is what the Poetic Terrorism's idea stands by.

I feel with all of the instructions it is loaded with a sense of excitement of possible performing one of these tasks. Maybe, if I read I will actually go through with the passage's commands.

If I do, I hope to show pictures of to the whole class.

Both Art Sabotage and Pirate Utopia evoked similiar feelings.

However, I think with either Art Sabotage and Poetic Terrorism that each should be taken with skeptical approach as they both require destruction of some sort to create beauty.

I also loved the approach that Pirate Utopia Internet Piracy as if it were a thing to exist in the 18th century. When there were real pirates.