Assignment 2

1   1. For the performance art of Corporal Otis. As we know, the trooper in the Star Wars is a popular culture. Why is this performance art interesting to me? At the begging, I think it is the character in the film came to the real world. I think in this artwork, the deeper meaning is that trooper change watched from to watcher. So I think the different roll in this piece is vulnerability. For example, when we watch the movie, we can see the trooper in the screen. At that time, we are very safe, because we are in the corner to watch him. We can see everything. However, when the artist change the roll. I can feel people are not safety. He can watch everyone, people feel exposed. So In that space, people can be vulnerability. On the other side, trooper with masked to hidden is very safety. Conversely, people whom spectacular and expose can be a space of vulnerability.

   

2   2.Vulnerability is a concept that links the relationship that people have with their environment to social forces and institutions and the culture values that sustain and contest them. It can affect emotionally. For example, when I was a litter girl, my aunt and her husband divorced. After that, my aunt and my cousin left for a new life. However, when we had holiday such as traditional spring festival, I can feel her loneliness and lack of the love from her father. I think in that space can be vulnerability. That makes me think if that happen to me… It makes me understand my cousin more.

The other story is about me. I remember when I first came to Canada, when I pass the security check, I missed my parents and I can’t help crying. It’s my first time to be that far away from my parents. In that time, vulnerability was full of my heart. I told to me not cry again. I think vulnerability appear in everyone life such as family relationship, friendship, and so on.

3.I think the artist putting forward in relation to vulnerability. All of the artists make performance art according to vulnerability. It was very interesting performance art. For example, Corporal Otis make a trooper change watched from to watcher. When the audiences watch the trooper in the movie, they can feel safety. However, when the trooper change to watcher. People start feel vulnerability. On the other side, trooper with masked to hidden its safety. Conversely, people who expose can be a space of vulnerability. For the other artist such as Jeff, he puts the harm in his body. As a audience, I can feel uncomfortable and vulnerability in that space. Also, he lets his skin and body in a vulnerability environment. I think this festival, the artist doing very well. That was very interesting. They also made the interaction with the audience. I think the festival was very success and I like it very much.