287

http://davidhuber55.googlepages.com/sculptureclass

David made this awesome blog of our 287 sculpture class with video and photo documentation. Thanks David!

My Art

Karma no.1 (2008)

Education II

Education part I

Education part III

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In Transition

In your products

split lanturn of dreams

Tao Therapy

children

truck drivers

market place

Eva Luna

I just finished Eva Luna by Isabella Allende and I’m anxiously awaiting another of her stories!

chipping yellow hand rails

An old man moved to the space on the bus that met and morned the comings and and goings of travelers. He blends in. Wearing a sweat stained dark blue and gray baseball cap.  Off white chokka and lungi with twin sandels.  He holds onto the bus rail of chipping yellow paint and metal underneath. His skin is black and weathered and held at attention by the sun. He had two real eyes, and most of his teeth. Between the first finger and thumb of his left hand was a small small twig. Holding it though it were sacred and he had saved it from flying away. Like he would keep it long after the wind stopped playing in his hair, long after the bus ride.

6/30/08 words from the day my camera died

On the way to teach HIV to ninth standard english medium children in Chennai.

Out the window to my left a man with whitening hair and bony shaped unclothed skin lie on his side. Undernearth a wall not so typical as advertisements for light skinned starlets, but a scale that is equaled. And some words. RIGHTS-HUMAN-EQUALITY-INDIAN-painted red, white and green. The man turned so slowly…the bus pulled away while traffic obstructed India.

Arundhati Roy

 

She wrote this book called “The God of Small Things”, everyone should read it.

What nurses have to say…

Students from the Nursing college in Mysore, India walked in the name of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

Project 3

Infernal Noise Brigade

Music is not only the universal language, which transcends barriers to create communities of diverse groupings it can also be used as a forms of public and private protest, as a strategy to distrupt the normal passitivity of everyday life, to awaken and inspire change. The Infernal Noise Brigade, an actual marching band, came into exsistance to assist in livening spirits of the left and attack accepted/socialized power structures with a new tool, music. This form of auditory art much like graffiti, which is drawn in public(subway/street) and private(military walls/state buildings) areas reclaimes public space which was formerly inaccessable to the local community. Due to the corporate conglomerates in control of the media; music, news, advertisements etc. Art and music that are happening in a public sphere in real time simply cannot be censored, or very easily at leaste. A part I found very funny, even when police did try to stop the protest with tear gas, INB was prepared with gas masks and continued on playing. Action taken against protesters often helps their cause get more attention, so hopefully this worked in their favor. Public engagement in an art which is politically subversive that is unable to be easily censored makes the art more powerful.
The streets provides a place for the public to be exposed to and also invited to participate in the search for truth and justice. INB is revolutionary because it dismantles the passive audience behavior and joins individuals together to demand change. The music captures peoples attention and brings to surface issues for example with the WTO, the rich making up rules for international trade, rules that are inherently biased toward benefiting the rich and further disenfranchising the poor. This kind of large scale social change or even disruption cannot be afforded by the individual alone. The genuis of aural presence is that the feeling in the air becomes altered to afford a level of happiness and community. Especially in a time when big corporations seek to alienate communities by keeping them under informed and programed by adds to want things to consume. INB sparks people into action, they excite the public into caring about issues otherwise invisible in everyday life.

Protest becomes not so clearly defined, ambiguous and carnivalesque it has the unknown/unexpected element of surprize. The INB Marching Band uses conveintion to its benefit, confusing it, turning it around and going against it. Playing music from traditions and cultures not yet homogenized. Provoking the feelings and aura that are uncut and uncommodifed, the drums beats and marching of the Infernal Noise Brigade becomes a politically motivating art form accessable to the mass public to participate in and expand upon.