Displacement
This is the second part of my reasech for displacement project.
In Integrative Design Studio, we are working on picking an object or an action, that we can displace in space. For my object, I chose a bed and for my action, I chose dancing. In the end, I wanted to go with my action, dancing because of the rich history it has over the years and the different meanings it has over different cultures. There are even different types of emotions when dancing. Dancing to me shows more than a physical movement but it can also tell a story, whether its the robot or ballet, It will tell a story.
Dancing
Where we had to start is to go to the MET museum and find things that would represent our action or object. I was hoping to find painting and sculptures throughout the years, from cave paintings all the way to today’s date. Although I didn’t have time to collect every art from all the centries, years, days, I found some that caught my attention the most.
This work was one of the oldest work, replica, I found at the MET. It’s people enjoying the music, It would be just dancing for a celebration, or maybe a ceremony. The use of instruments is something you may think to have while dancing, the way music can move someone and also leads back to emotion due to different types of melodies.
Other than just seeing the action of people dancing, objects also represent dancing. For example this mask from, Guinea and Niger River region. It was used for sacrifice and dancing porpuses as an entertainment. Usually, with tribes, dances could be sacred, like dancing for a certain god.
This another mask from the Mosi People in Burkina Faso and Ouagadougou City, other countries in Africa. I wanted another mask because even though it’s a different country in Africa, you can see the similarities
For these two porcelain mini decorations, I loved the small detail on their garments. The descriptions for these decorations were model after Johann Friedrich Luk, and the woman figure is based on Marie Salle portrait by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1745) who was a ballet dancer and innovator.
For the last piece, I chose this bronze sculpture because of the movement and the emotion that just the body depicts.
Relationship
Each of these work relates to each other because of the action. At first, when I was doing my research, I assumed that I had to find images of people clearly dancing, but clearly, there is more to dancing that over the years, cultures have added too. Especially today, we see performing artists have the motive to dance to show emotions and even dress up to represent what they are dancing for. These objects come together because it shows a single action that is dancing, but different types of art forms and different types of meaning behind each object.
I would like this to be my curation, where it could be displayed at the Guggenheim museum created by Frank Lloyd Wright. I love the architecture of the building because of the curved lines it has throughout the entire building, from outside to the inside. Even though this museum shows more contemporary art, It would be the best opportunity to show something a bit more classical and for just one time and maybe even have a twist to the entire display. The Guggenheim Museum is located at 1071 5th Ave, New York City. The city itself has a lot of movement, although it’s not dancing, It all comes together. Now for this curation, the name could be “The Moving Ages” to represent how dance is something as old as we can imagine.
My experience at the MET was more interesting that other times that I have gone to see it. I was taken my time going through each wing to find some type of connection for dancing. When I went into the museum I was just looking through paintings that had people dancing around, however, I did not find many paintings at the moment, because some sections were closed due to an event. What surprised me the most was the number of objects that could relate to dancing and are incorporated into dancing. I didn’t want to much of the object to be included because it would take away from dancing. For example, the Instruments in the Egyptian painting, are making music to move around and enjoy themselves but the instrument relates to music and it can add more meanings than just dancing.
It was kind of difficult to think about displacing dancing and it still challenging now to come up with an idea. However, I enjoy this challenge. I also didn’t think that Dancing would be the best action to pick because it could seem boring, but the more I remember what I learned in my anthropology class about the culture of dancing, the more intrigued I am to make it a displacement.
This is part two of my research for the part one you can look at my last post, MET
Will Dancing be my final decision for my displacement project 1?
