Final Project

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Automata

Nudity

This experience was very liberating for me. I was a little nervous at the onset but once I was nude and lying on the floor I became very calm and at peace. I closed my eyes. I just let go of everything and cleared my mind. I listened to people's reactions and heard many interesting things. The most common reaction was, "What the fuck!" but others included: "Wait, can someone tell me what is going on", "Is she okay?", "The naked body is a beautiful thing", "I would never be able to do that", "that's completely normal, people are always walking around with their tops off, you should have gone to terrace 13 to get some real reactions".

My main struggle with my performance was that the floor was extremely cold and I was shivering uncontrollably at times. I hardly cared though, because I was just so happy that I was doing something so meaningful to me. My intent was to get people to face the nude body and see their natural reaction. The nude body is so natural, everyone has one, though when people see one their reactions are not that it is something so familiar but instead something quite unexpected. I still struggle with understanding why nudity is so taboo.

Photos from Performance

All the photos were taken by Michael Lewis. I know that some are blurry but I think it really captures the feeling of the performance. Most people were fidgety and flustered and uncomfortable. Michael would try to take a picture of their first reaction which often times was in motion.

Endurance Piece

Today (February 7, 2010) I will lie on the floor of Ithaca College's Terrace 2 lounge, naked, for 6 hours. I will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. There are rumors that Ithaca College is a nudist-friendly college and I would like to see how valid that statement is. I want to see people's reactions to nudity, something so natural that everyone has seen. I will document it through pictures. I myself have issues with my body so this will definitely be a challenge for me.

Group 3

Sonic Postcard

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multiplicity

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A Personal Record of Time

When I heard the assignment was documenting your personal time without using a clock I immediately thought of my bracelets. I make bracelets to pass the time and they are a good indicator of how much time has elapsed. Furthermore, by looking at a bracelet I can think back to things I did during the day. For example, I messed up towards the beginning and when I look at my mess up I remember that I messed up because my friends were talking to me and making me laugh. To even make it easier to tell what time of the day it was I coordinated the colors of the bracelet with the colors that were in the sky during the day. In the beginning of the day (and of the bracelet) there were mostly blues in the sky, the yellow diamonds in the center of the bracelet are when the sun was high in the sky, the oranges, yellows, and purples are the sunset, the dark blue is night time.