Assignment 2

First, I watched a video of Marina Abramovic explaining how she realized she can use any medium for her art. She realized it while painting two-dimensional clouds and military planes flew through the sky creating artwork in the sky. She was inspired to use different techniques to create dimensional art, one of them being the human body. I think art has many forms and creating three-dimensional art can feel more freeing because you're not limited to a canvas. However, she mentioned something that stuck out to me: if she were to make a hierarchy of art, music would be on top, then performers, then any other art. That is interesting because it is an unconventional opinion and, at least personally, music and performance would be in a different category altogether than paintings and sculptures. I think she was saying that they are all forms of expression and in comparison to each other, music and performance are superior. 
Then, I watched Pierre Huyghe in "Romance". Huyghe mentioned how thresholds can be redefined or overall removed from artwork and he tried to display that in his museum exhibit. It was an interesting play on the idea with literal doors moving throughout the exhibit that he related to the idea of culture and its boundaries. He uses music, landscape, lights, parades, puppets, and more to portray his ideas to others. He says he is trying to reach emotions in his techniques rather than a simple narration. Something that was interesting to me is that he is not interested in filming reality as it is given or creating fiction, he wishes to create a reality and to film his reality. That is a very out-of-the-box idea and its something very unique to try and construct. 
Neither of these artists are ordinary and it is interesting to hear the stories of nonconventional artists and their points of view.