Event 1: Lifes at the Hammer Museum

I attended the Lifes Exhibition at the Hammer Museum on Thursday, April 22nd. The exhibition combines visual artists, choreographers, composers, musicians, vocalists, and other writers each creating their own works for the exhibition. Lifes acknowledges the inherent incompatibilities at play between traditional artistic disciplines and within the spaces of art’s display. Overlapping themes emerged, including the translation and mediation of language and the idea of the audience as a material substance inseparable from public exhibitions. The exhibition at Lifes ties directly into the lecture given in week 2 about mathematics, perspective, time, and space as well as the lecture in week 1 about the two cultures evolving into a third.  Each performance interrupts the implied stability of the schedule set forth on the brochure handed to guests as you walk inside the gallery. The Lifes exhibition relies on time and numbers.  Starting at the hour (00:00) mark there is a performance that occurs at the (00:03, (00:12), (00:21),(00:33), (00:43), and (00:53) minute mark of every hour.

 

The Tuning Meditation occurs at 00:00 and lasts 2 minutes and 39 secs, color a body who flees occurs at (00:12) and lasts 8 minutes and 48 seconds; and Blessed Be This Land/Undo the World occurs at (00:43) and lasts 9 minutes and 9 seconds. These performances are all auditory as a viewer I listened to the various meditations and compositions of sounds and lyrics that each were denoted by their specific time frame. 

 

Enquelab ultramarine occurs at (00:03) and lasts 8 minutes and 53 seconds and Parade occurs at (00:21) and lasts 11 minutes and 40 seconds. Both are video works that allow you to stand and watch the performances on screen. 

 

All Fours occurs at (00:33) and lasts 10 minutes and The Fringes of Consciousness Are Promiscuous which began this week occurs at (00:53) and lasts 10 minutes. Both performances are live and blur the line between performer and gallery and viewer. As a viewer, you are a part of the space just as much as the performers are. 

 

I enjoyed going to the exhibition and was delighted to read more about the artistic intent after being able to view the performances inside the space. 

 

 

 





 

 

“Lifes.” Hammer Museum, 17 Feb. 2022, https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2022/lifes. 

Vesna, Victoria. “Mathematics-pt1-ZeroPerspectiveGoldenMean” Lecture. CoLE DESMA 9.  April 22, 2022. Web. 

Vesna, Victoria. “TwoCultures pt2”  Lecture. CoLE DESMA 9.  April 22, 2022. Web. 

 

 

 

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