Endurance Performance

For my three hour endurance performance piece I impersonated a caterpillar. I was warped in toilet paper to create my cocoon. By the time the group the got to me part of my cocoon had been withered by the wind. This was a sign from nature that it was almost time for me to emerge. At the end of my performance I show my true newly acquired colors to the world. I discovered through this process that I will never be the same as I was. I have meta morphed in my cocoon into a beautiful butterfly. This is an amazing process that will continue for many geherations of caterpillars as they change into butterflies... I wish them luck on there way to a better place.

Evaluation

I chose to evaluate the endurance performance piece of someone taking on the persona of a mime. They dressed up in a black and white striped shirt as well as black overalls and shoes. They wore a white necklace, painted their face white, painted their lips red and wore their dark hair down. The performance took place on Alfred university campus directly around the Alfred Saxon statue. The performance took place between 8 and 11 am.

I think that this would be considered a performance piece. Doing anything for 3 hours straight is enduring weather mentally, emotionally, or physically. I think in order to do this performance this person must have had a lot of mental and physical endurance. I think that I enjoyed this piece most because it was interactive. All of the other pieces were viewed by watching what these people were doing. With her piece we were able to shake her hand and share feelings with her. How many people just walked by some of the other pieces where this performer comes and seeks you out.

I thought the space she chose was fitting. This is an area that is going to see a lot of people walking by so adequate people will be able to interact with her. Having a statue next to a mime does seem like a strange thing. I could almost see her interacting with the statue when no one was around. One thing that I would suggest to improve this piece would be for her to have more things that she did. What she did was hilarious I wanted more. She did a very good job at keeping our attention and guiding the audience through her piece. She even told us when to leave by waving to us.

My Decleration of Endurence

I Phillip Alfred Yannella will be adopting the persona of a caterpillar for 3 hours on Friday April 23 behind Cannon first year res hall. I will be to the right of the path leading up to Reimer, hanging between two trees in my green hammock with netting around it. I am going to transform my hammock into a cocoon by spinning toilet paper around it and being inside my sleeping bag. I am going to dress in very bright colors so that when I emerge from my cocoon I will make the transformation into a butterfly. This is an endurance piece because me being silent and enclosed in this cocoon is going to be very difficult for me to do. I will not talk to the people around me and Will not fall asleep. I must be awake and thoughtful for my full transformation to happen.
I have come upon this idea because I am completely fascinated with this idea of caterpillars making a metamorphose into butterflies. The fact that these tiny insects don't live very long but go through enormous change is shocking!

Breathless- 2 Minute Song

Sonic Postcard

Kinetic project

This is a video of our Kinetic project for time class. in this video you can see how we used our motor to spin a dowel with circles on it.

This combination created something very interesting. We attached yarn to the outside of the circles in order to make them look like a worm.

One thing that we explored through this project was dealing with something that people do not normally see. By creating the motion in

the box, below grown we transfer the idea of where most motion occurs. One thing that I was happy with was that the audience got the

message we were trying to convey. In addition they came up with a few ideas of their own that we did not think of.

My Automata

I decided to focus on motion with my automata. I wanted to make something that was very fun and easy to use. In addition I wanted the motion to sort of mesmerize you.
the circles are off set in such a way that a wave is created in the fabric on top. one problem I ran into was there being too much friction between the circles and the pistons. I decided to apply tape where I needed it and this solved my problems. To farther people making these out of card board... don't use gears. make them simple and good.

A Personal Record Of Time

In my time class we were asked to create a way to record time without using a clock. I had trouble trying to decide how to do this. I tried to think of habits that could take note of or other things to document.

I turned to something that was with me every minute of the day, every day in fact. I believe that my shoes are a very good way to document my time. They can give you a good example of where I have been. In addition they give a record for an extended period of time. These shoes are very worn and flat on the bottom. Another thing these things show is the environment I live in. the souls are worn so it must be rough. There is a lot of mud on them too so I must have been somewhere very muddy. Lately too because the mud is still wet. All in all, my shoes will continue to record things from my life.