Writing Assignment #3

Megan Scherer

The main focus of the reading was that Noise can cause a violent uprising against a governmental power or authority in general. That would be a single sentence summary, when this piece of literature is much more than a single sentence. The one thing that stood out to me the most was this quote "We attempt, through our aesthetics and our fierce commitment to politics of joy and desire, to create a space of carnival, where all rules are broken and anything is possible. We seek to dissolve all barriers between art and politics, participants and spectators, dream and action". Continuing on with the essay the author described being in a big crowd, in the rain, knowing that being a part of this crowd, he was making history. It was a peaceful march, filled with breaks, snacks, starbucks, and even music. You can always make a difference without interfering violently, causing harm or disturbance to others, on top of knowing when to keep to yourself even in the middle of a march. But it always comes to an end with violence or without, and in this authors case, it ended in tear gas, cops, and a scared crowd. 

    This is a quote that I will be relating to the video we watched called "Projections: By Krzysztof Wodiczko. He projected real life scenarios onto important governmental or authoritarian structures, with a message and political meaning behind each one. I stand behind his pieces of art, because none of them come from a violent place for this political standpoint. They are all peaceful submissions of video art done in a tasteful, graceful, and practically silent way. No one would know about these projections unless they walked past them at that very moment in the night, or watching the video taken of this project being completed in real time. Similar to what I stated earlier, this artist is making political statements without interfering violently, causing harm, unwanted disturbance, and keeping to himself in the middle of his art piece. For example his "Fruits of Man's Labor project" it didn't anyone, offend anyone, or cause any political uproar. He is just pointing out the political issues that certain identities have felt while coming to a new country. 

   

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