DAY 13:

Old train station museum: 
Pile of dirt room with tubes and liquids:

Even if you didn't get it conceptually, what aspects of it were most noteworthy to you? Why?

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playable musical instrument sculptures:

Did you play them?

How was it different than playing a regular instrument like a piano or guitar?

How would it have been different if you were the only person in the space?

Did you find yourself "collaborating" with anyone else in the room?

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Soccer Video Installation:

What themese was it exploring?

Were there any images, movements, or forms that stood out to you?

How would it have been different hand the screens been on walls side-by-side each other?

What did you make of the white stuffing sculptural elements throughout the room?

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Body Performance Group (with the ice in the mouth / mouse performance video):
{Auto-Perforations Artisten}

{Some history of the German Democratic Republic, Dresden, East Germany in the 1980s prior to the fall of the wall.}

Why were they doing these types of actions? Why as performances rather than more temporary art?

How would the performances have been different if just one person?

How would they have been different if the woman was putting the ice in the man's mouth?

{Discuss institutional trauma. The ways in which capitalism traumatizes. Submlimation of institutional trauma into individual trauma under capitalism.}

In a repressive political regime, what might art be good for?

If everyone is free to do with their own bodies as they please, why is such performance art so disturbing?

{Deleuze/Guattari >> experimentation with a body need be slow and careful. If you kill your own body, you lose the agency to experient with your body.}

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Orupabo (cut out paper sculptures of reconfigured black bodies):

From whose bodies are the source images?

To whom do the new/remixed bodies belong?

How does one reclaim a colonized, eurocentrically inscribed body?

What affect do the low-res artifacts in the images have on your experience? Why might the artist choose to leave the copyright marks from the source stock photography?

What do you make of the layering of the paper? What effect does it have on the work?