midterm

        It was interesting to watch video of assume vivid astro focus. It is the artist team made by Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson. Eli Sudbrack was born in Brazil. Christophe was born in Paris. They are working together, but they live in different places. The idea that they focus on was being free. Nowadays, we have different kinds of issues not being free. It might be from politics or gender issue. The artists show it from their art works that people should express themselves the way they want. The process of their art works was very creative. Each artist had their own drawing. They made series 58 drawings. Then, they displayed all together on the wall. Each artist had their own character. However, it became a new art when they put them together. They also had art performance. It was so excited to see it. They turned museum into a disco. The show was for tranny who changed gender. They made tranny masks for all visitors. People in that show is going to wear the masks and became tranny at that moment. There would be no shameful from being tranny so that everybody can become free at that moment. The artists also made giant naked body of woman and man. It would also refer to freedom from gender. They also made light with cute bomb shape as decorative. The funny thing was that they placed it in front of beautiful scene of Manhattan. When people saw the scene of Manhattan, they also had to see it through the bomb light. It was like overlapping. The concept of the bomb was to create our own history by blowing up Manhattan where we are living right now. On the begging of the video, Eli Sudbrack  first mentioned being free. From their art works and performances, I realized that they are really being free. That makes the artists be able to express free from their works. Their ideas were very creative. I could see freedom from the colors they expressed. They used various range of colors. They were easily to get attention. The forms artist use was abstract and cartoonish form. The artist used special art magic pen with different colors. This kind art work reminded my childhood. At that moment, I liked cartoon books. It was the best moment that I enjoyed the time.  Surprisingly, ElI Sudbrack had motivation from child books. Instead of reading books, he started cutting different characters and pasted them on the paper. He made his own story. I believe that this experience affect him to develop his works nowadays. I also really liked the way they created art works. Each artist had their own style and concept. They share their different ideas and put them together in one place for the show. Eli Sudbrack said, everything became one and it created energy. People in the art show was totally being free everything from the outside. I could see they looked really happy. After I watched the video, I realized that art can become a big power to connect between artists and viewers. The artists were amazing to make viewers being free from their art works.