First sound project

Automita

Sticks and Stones

For our endurance piece, we chose to create a ritualistic setting where we continually preformed actions that were completely futile. As the title suggests, we wanted to show how pointless petty arguments were, and that when two people argue, they get nowhere. We felt that by only taking from the other person's rock pile and not giving from our own, we represented how in arguments, people tend to only think of what they want and not what the other person may need. Furthermore, we felt that the silence, lack of physical contact, and lack of eye contact were the perfect metaphors for the way that people act when they are in a perfectly pointless fight with each other. Overall, the theme of the piece was that arguing tends to go nowhere and accomplish nothing. Photos of our performance, taken by Sam Sloan, are displayed below.

Three Hour Endurance Proposal

We, Chris Crain and Ben Miller, will be moving rocks from one pile to another starting at 8:00 am on Thursday, April 22nd, and ending at 11:00 am the same day. We will no touch each other, and we will not talk to anyone. We will not leave the area designated by the sticks laid out on the ground. We may not make eye contact with anyone, including each other. We may only move one rock at a time, and we can not drop that rock. We must pick up our rocks at the exact same time, and must drop them off at the opposite rock pile at the exact same time. We will spend our three hour endurance piece at the Hairpin Turn that is off to the left while looking at Rhymer and Teft and located near the suites, and we will not leave this area until our designated time is completed.

Kinetics

Untitled from Ari Hendershot on Vimeo.

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We were trying to convey a day in the life of a student. It starts out with the idea of a dream; then going to a morning with the character waking up from the dream.

24 hours of life

I wrote down all the text messages I received during a day and displayed them chronologically according to the conversation taking place.