Automata

A Personal Record of Time

A Personal Record of Time

I sat in my room and watched and listened to my room mate for periods throughout the day.

11:03 am - Li is asleep.
11:47 am - Li begins to stir and awake from her deep sleep. She gets out of bed and leaves the room.
11:54 am - Li returns to the room, and sits at her desk, turning on her Macbook.
12:30 pm - As I listen to Li, I hear a lot of paper rustling around on her desk. She has started to make her paper sculptures.
1:46 pm - Li grabs her hat, puts on her coat and leaves the room to go to Terra Cotta.
3:55 pm - Li returns to the room again, and sits in her bed, watching tv shows on her computer.
5:14 pm - Li walks over to the refrigerator, and grabs her macaroni salad.
5:29 pm - Li is finished eating her macaroni salad.

Tied Up

From 6:00pm to 12:00am, Ian and Dana tied themselves together by the neck with a long rope. For those six hours, they went about their daily lives and attempted to do everything that they would normally do. To make the project a challenge, every hour they tied up another limb, so by the end of the night they were almost completely bound together.

Endurance Performance

I, Dana Pomerantz and Ian Grosskopf will be tying ourselves together from 3:30pm to 9:30pm. We will start off bound by the neck tying us together, but over the duration of this time, every half hour we will bind another limb to the point in which we are completely bound. This is going to be a big challenge, considering that we are members of the opposite sex. We will attempt to go about living our daily routine at Alfred, which will be a challenge because one of us will not be able to move without the other one having to go along with them. If anyone should by chance ask if they can further bind us, we will have to consent.

Group Performance

Our group performed the act called "Cheeze-Itz". Originally we wanted to be breaking pencils on stage instead of Cheeze-Itz, but we decided that using the crackers would get more of a reaction out of our audience. There can be many different interpretations of our performance, and our audience came up with a few different meanings. The meaning that I got out of our act was the intense sound that one little cracker can make when it is broken during complete silence. Colby and I turned this simple act of crumpling crackers onto the floor into a sort of fight, or competition. No words were used, we were only able to project our emotions through the Cheeze-Itz. Derek acted as a kind of mediator, desperately trying to pick up the pieces of our argument. During the act, both Colby and I ignored Derek. We were completely focused on what the other was doing with their cracker. I feel that overall, our performance was a very effective one, and it got quite a positive reaction out of the audience.

Sonic Postcard Remix

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