WHYSEEART dedicated illustrations, and performances in sketch adaptations. By sketching in live audiences, it is a collaboration for audiences to draw from a live performance. Notice, An unbroken line from the movement happening on stage to the illustration in our efforts. The liberal arts, an artistic sphere, where the zine is best understood in the study of movement.
The Zine
A Magazine, Especially a Fanzine defined by the .com Boom, Contemporary Artists talking about The Internet.
Charles Schultz presented this Final Project for his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, LPS Liberal arts and Professional Studies, THE INTERNET: THEN, NOW, AND RIGHT NOW, 2019.
Breaking Dawn|Twilight Series
The beginning stages were about craftsmanship. BREAKING DAWN by Stephanie Meyers, was popular for being the final book in the Twilight Series. I found the novel in the “Lost and Found,” and began drawing, collage, and painted over the pages. In 2011, it was the longest project of mine, and set a new standard. Turning to drawing from live performances in the audience took the form, filling sketchbooks with this type of work.
In 2019, Dr. Ryan Tsapatsaris, a Doctoral student during my time at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where he led the classroom discussion on “The Internet: Then, Now, and Right Now.” Throughout my Bachelors Degree for Fine Art(BFA), I was drawing from dance and theater. I returned to Upenn at the same time, an art journalist sketching live performances. With a unique perspective of The Performing Arts Center as an usher for the Philadelphia Orchestra. My research in art history, contemporary and ancient cultures, and popular culture aligned with my theater reviews in ways that I couldn’t have imagined.
In 2018, I Traveled to Shanghai, China. For what better reason to understand the social space of performance art, than studies in Chinese Cinema and Chinese Popular Culture. The discovery of the work of Yang Fudong triggered serious investigation into speaking for the art, and making sense of conceptual artist.
SHANGHART GALLERY M50, Liu Yi, Thrown Into the Wind (2018)
Thrown Into The Wind by Liu Yi played with theatrical qualities that enhanced the space and expanded possibilities for the animation to go beyond the screen. The combination of theater and film characterize the infinite reality of the stage or the cinema. Liu Yi seems to be very cognizant of ink drawings, the fabric hanging up, fans below our feet, and a double sided projector screen to activate the space. The participants at the exhibition played a part in the narrative, and we actively connected the illustrated world of Liu Yi’s “Chaos Theory” to a theatrical exhibition where we were also the subjects. Chinese art and architecture from the past show how Chinese traditions put emotion into nature in order to understand their place in the world. Animation in this installation naturally puts the viewer in motion. So, if we were able to take a look at what is hidden behind the screen, to fully understand the environment, then we have become a participant in the exhibition. Above all, self reflection among the group is a shared experience. The differentiation between an objective and a subjective audience was part of the model for Liu Yi’s installation at Shanghart M50.
Exploring The Relationship Of Art And Politics in Shanghai,China
Liu Yi’s Thrown Into The Wind Exhibition at Shanghart M50
In 2018, this visual artist showed quick moving animations, in a story like-fashion of non-linear symbols, flowing in and out of characters and setting.
