Iacopo Seri
Iacopo Seri was such a good lecturer, even when he literally spoke gibberish the whole time.
The lecture consisted of Iacopo drawing shapes and symbols that where being projected so we could see and for each shape he drew he made a noise that kind of resembled the shape, Seri encouraged the audience to make these noises with him trying to explain everything in some kind of gibberish. After some time we did, it was weird how we understood what he wanted us to do and made all these crazy noises to go with his drawings. Iacopo also drew noises and ideas from the audience, such as one of the students (Beth) sneezing, which is now one of the most iconic sneezes in the history of Fine Art.
After the lecture I went to Iacopo's Q+A to find out what the hell was going on in that lecture. At the Q+A I found out that Seri was completely free styling his actions and this lecture was a new experiment he had never done before. The only part of the experiment he had prepared for was his gibberish which is actually a language he made up himself and practiced for a year. Iacopo describe this work as fun and chaotic he wanted a structure where there was as few rules as possible, the performance was very time and environmentally specific, being open to other sounds and interactions from the audience, such as Beth's sneeze. Seri stated that he think's work is for in the moment not the standard of recording and documentation, which is something I have found very interesting and would like to experiment with this in my own work, other then this I find Seri's interaction with the audience extremely natural and interesting and this is something I have been working on in my own practice and will probably continue with, now taking some ideas from Iacopo.
The lecture consisted of Iacopo drawing shapes and symbols that where being projected so we could see and for each shape he drew he made a noise that kind of resembled the shape, Seri encouraged the audience to make these noises with him trying to explain everything in some kind of gibberish. After some time we did, it was weird how we understood what he wanted us to do and made all these crazy noises to go with his drawings. Iacopo also drew noises and ideas from the audience, such as one of the students (Beth) sneezing, which is now one of the most iconic sneezes in the history of Fine Art.
After the lecture I went to Iacopo's Q+A to find out what the hell was going on in that lecture. At the Q+A I found out that Seri was completely free styling his actions and this lecture was a new experiment he had never done before. The only part of the experiment he had prepared for was his gibberish which is actually a language he made up himself and practiced for a year. Iacopo describe this work as fun and chaotic he wanted a structure where there was as few rules as possible, the performance was very time and environmentally specific, being open to other sounds and interactions from the audience, such as Beth's sneeze. Seri stated that he think's work is for in the moment not the standard of recording and documentation, which is something I have found very interesting and would like to experiment with this in my own work, other then this I find Seri's interaction with the audience extremely natural and interesting and this is something I have been working on in my own practice and will probably continue with, now taking some ideas from Iacopo.
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