- How did you feel performing Maintenance Art in the area around the USU?
- At first, I felt a little bit embarrassed from strangers that they gave us a look of what they were doing here. Besides the emotions, the sculpture was really enourmous and big, never expected it was this big.
- How are Mierle Laderman Ukeles cleaning the steps of an art museum and Richard Serra flinging molten lead against the walls of an art museum different? How are they the same? Are one or both “art”? Are one or both “not art”?
- In my opinion, Miele Laderman Ukeles behaviours is more like a normal action that people can do in dailylife, on the other hand, Richard Serra’s action requires more technique and instrucment to finish it. Moreover, both of them count as art to me since both of their action have a intentions behind it. Although cleaning is not regard as art to a lot of people, yet everything has a deeper meaning and intentions behind it count as art to me.
- Was Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art performance at the Wadsworth Atheneum “art”? Did the fact that her performance was at an Art Museum make it art? What if instead, she had simply gotten hired as a janitor at a factory somewhere and performed that job for 6 months? Would that have been art? What makes an act “art” or “not art”?
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s maintenance is considered art as it perfromed a deeper meaning behind it. To be honest, ofcourse the fact that she performed the maintence at Art Museum made it more like a art action, but the meaning behind it, the meaning of cleaning creates something beautiful, is the real reason of it considered as art. If she got hired as a janitor and performed for 6 months, the action she took still considered as art since she has intention behind the cleaning. To me, anything can be art as long as it has deeper meaning, something that express an idea can be art.
- Is an object or an action Art or Not Art because of some intrinsic property of the medium? Or because of the intention of the person performing it? Are all paintings on canvas art because paintings on canvas are exhibited in art museums? Is all house painting not art because we don’t exhibit painted houses in art museums? Can a painting on canvas ever be not art? Can painting a house ever be art?
- Anything can be considered as art no matter what medium is being used. The location of where the art present isn’t important when we consider the object is an art or not. and YES, house painting is also considered as art. Take Bejing China as an example, a lot of old house are protected since they could tell the lifestlye, history of China.
- Has Mierle Laderman Ukeles, or Jennifer Lopez, made you think differently about “Women’s Work”? Is “Women’s Work” ever art? If yes, when? If no, why not?
- I do not think both of them have made me think differently about the concept of women’s work. Women’s work is always considered art to me personally since they have intention and meaning behind it. Just like the old sayings, every action has a reason and meaning and these meaning or reason makes things to become beautiful, important and precious.
- In class we discussed the woman who cleaned Donald Trump’s Star on Hollywood Blvd. Whose Star would you get down on your hands and knees to clean?
- If I have to knee down and clean on star on Hollywood, it would be Donal Trump as well. Although a lot of people don’t like him, yet to me his bussiness skill always impressed me.
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