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Visiting Artist: Brinlee
Kari Forinash
Visiting Artist Lecture
February 8, 2012
At the first start of the lecture, Mel Chin came out and said, “I know why I am here…” then continued to serenade the audience with his impersonation of Elvis. Although Mel Chin seemed experienced and well versed in the world of conceptual art, he continued to perform skits for us and he showed us his artistic skills and development through his conceptual works and as well as performance, music, and poetry. I found that Mel Chin’s work he showed us was based on a more conceptual thought and symbolism more than the uses and sciences of color or actual painting. I do think though he has made more traditional works in sculpture as he mentioned briefly during his lecture. I wished I could have seen more of his traditional sculpture work because I was interested to see his personal style. I do understand why he chose to mainly talk about his conceptual art sculptures to an academic crowd though.
One of my favorite works he showcased was a work commemorating a racist murder of an Asian here in America. The work was an oriental fan that looked like it could be folded in and out in an old fashioned way. The wood where the folds in the fan are is actually a bat sliced in a way to where if the fan closed the whole bat is made. There is a circle in t he middle of the fan when folded out that reminded me of a Japanese flag. He went on to talk about how the bats represented the abuse and the circle was painted with his actual blood! I was interested to find out the process in how he made some of his works the way he did. Like extracting his own blood. I do regret not asking how he made some of his works, or the process he went through to get to the conclusions and decisions he made in his works.
Listening to Mel Chin I learned that caring about important issues could go hand and hand with my art making. I was influenced when he spoke about his charitable art piece of “fundreds”, creative hand drawn paper money that he is getting 3 million individuals to make for an exchange at the white house of real money to support the research and trial of plants absorbing lead from the soil of the city New Orleans. He explained how this is helping the entire world and even Memphis and other Urban areas are at high levels of the harmful chemical lead. His project got to CNN and has already started receiving donations to start research.
Overall I found Mel Chin to be smart, yet humble in his humor. Mel Chin kept my interest in his lecture and even though he was professional, he still kept my attention with his explanations of why he used the materials and his reasoning for it. I thought his mindset to be a little on the scattered side until he talked about his works and the reasons for doing them. He would explain his feeling about a particular work with feeling and intelligence. I thought that Mel Chin was very interesting as an artist and inspirational as well.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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