Cardboard Automata

For my cardboard automata, I attached 3 pennies to the top so that when the crank was turned, the dowel rod would spin and go up and down causing the pennies to hit against each other making a sort of clinging noise. The objects I used were a dowel rod, pennies, post it note, a straw and cardboard.

Hanging Around Performance

From what started off as a funny performance that I could a lot of fun with, it turned into a serious safety issue. I started my performance at 2:30 pm by standing a chair in Barresi commons and allowing my friends to tape to me the wall. It took a little over an hour and a half to tape me enough that would support my weight. During this time, my body began to cramp from being restricted and immobilized. My left shoulder, back, knees and heels were among the hurting parts. I knew that it would be a VERY uncomfortable time to finish out the performance. After there was enough tape to support me, my friends took some creative liberty and decided to make clothes out of the colored duct taped I had bought. Once the 'outfit' was complete, they removed the chair and by request by me, signed their names along my body, as well as anyone who happened to be walking by. They stayed there with me in case I was thirsty or wanted something to eat. About 10 minutes after the chair was removed, I began to feel dizzy and the room was spinning. I told them what was happening and as soon as I did, I passed out. They ripped me from the wall and called public safety. I came to and began to hyperventilate and couldn't hear anything. An ambulance was called and I was taken to the hospital where they took some chest x-rays and was stabbed with about 5 needles and they explained to me that the tape was suffocating me. I was released around 8:00. I realize that my performance did not last the full 6 hours, but from the time I began to get taped to the time I was released was almost the full 6 hours.

Hanging Around

My 6 hour performance will bring a new meaning to the phrase 'hanging around'. On Tuesday February 9 from 2:30 pm-8:30 pm I will be duct taped to the wall in Barresi commons. People passing through will be able to write whatever they would like on the duct tape and then will have to take a picture of me, of what they wrote, or both.

Detached

My group and I performing our piece. We tried to show how even with the simplest of things, not everyone will understand.

A Walk Down the Dorm Hall

This video/sound piece is a mixture of sounds that tells a story about walking down the hallway and investigating what was behind different doors.

My Sound Project

By accident I had found that our palette knife makes a cool metallic noise, so for my sounds I hit it off of different surfaces such as my desk, my laptop, and I bounced it off my coffee mug to acquire the sounds for this project.

A Personal Record of Time

When I first considered this project, I asked myself 'what do I fill my day with?'. I kept a small notebook with me that day on my 21 hour journey and wrote down the miscellaneous things that consumed my day. I had typical things on the list such as friends, tv, texting, sleep, etc. but I also had some not so typical things such as super mario wii, european map games, colors wheels. It was interesting to see the different things I do and how most are not typical to a normal day.