I have recently seen too much art and too many vids. Here are the highlights relevant to my research:
Hennesy Youngman: Art Thoughtz new video:
“IM ON THE INTERNET BITCH IM ON THE INTERNET BITCH IM FUCKING FAMOUS”
I am so obsessed. Hennesy is a persona created by Jayson Musson. Visit Jayson’s site here. Visit Hennesy’s youtube here.
MFA Student work: J.R. Uretsky
I recently saw an exhibit of mfa student work. I was especially interested in work by J.R. Uretsky. I checked out the website when I got home. It is a weird, engaging mix of excessive materials, family stuffs, gender, pop culture, etc.. I definitely felt some art kinship to the work. Here is one video I rocked hard to:
Nicki Minaj’s new video:
Here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks3_kuRAzHs
Not my most favorite song, kind of cliche, not so much edge, but I like the part in the beginning when she goes in to some of her characters.
Damali Abrams:
This weekend I went to the lecture Sonic Art and Activism: Exploring the ties between feminist art and popular music. The entire panel was great. Particularly relevant to my own research was panelist Damali Abrams . Her work deals with identity, culture, gender, race, more things, etc… She uses self-help videos, vlogging, popular (and un-popular) music, stickers, and more things in the work I have seen of hers. On her youtube, I found this video of her on the MTV show “Say What Karaoke” from the late 90′s and early 2000′s.
In the context of the rest of her work, this video is so poignant and complicated. It is almost hard to believe it is real. The racial undertones, sexualized comments, and over-all reality of the whole situation has left me curious. I used to watch and dance to this show all the time when I was a kid. I am still kind of in awe at how the mere re-contextualization of this clip changed the reading of this situation to one of extreme criticality.
