Week 4: Body matters (Oct. 1)

WORKS

Hannah Wilke—Gestures

Joan Jonas—Vertical Roll

Vito Acconci—Pryings

Patty Chang—Melons

Charlemagne Palestine—Body Music 1

Paul McCarthy—Black and White Tapes

Valie EXPORT—Hyperbulie

EXERCISE: TRACKING THE BODY

3-5 minute video.

For this experiment, you will be turning the camera on yourself for the first time in this class.

Use the medium of video to:

a) observe a particular embodied behavior of yours which you don’t entirely understand and about which you want to know more… e.g. a tic, a nervous habit, a particular physical protocol, a repetitive maneuver…

b) document an attempt to get yourself into a particular mental state through bodily effort or exertion.