Please read the highlighted sections of the article on Blackboard. The article discusses Rist's work in general, and also makes reference to the video "Ever is Over All." What are the similarities between Rist's piece for the Point of View series (the video we saw in class, "I Want to See How You See, or a Portrait of Cornelia Providoli") and Ever is Over All?
Pipiliotti's works are based on dreams, as well as her emotions concerning romance. She includes symbolic elements that represent her variety of emotions, she reflects on them in a complex way. Her works are fantastical and dreamlike, while also reflective of her personal traumas. They are meant to allure the viewer into a world that is both like and unlike reality.
ReplyDeletePipillotti has amazing thoughts towards women empowerment and you can see it in her work. She shows women in nature, which seems like such a natural thing because women have such an amazing connection with the earth and the natural surroundings. The media she works with is like a whole different world and everything seems to flow like nature and women who are in the flow in some regards. We live in man's world, Pippolliotti creates her version of a women's world.
ReplyDeletePipillotti Rist creates her videos through the turmoil of human downfalls and experiences. She deals with the loss of dreams, hopes and tries to empower women through these experiences. In these two videos we watched, "I Want to See How You See, or a Portrait of Cornelia Providoli") and Ever is Over All, they show the empowerment of the women and to question what is acceptable in a society through the use of the video and how it is shown.
ReplyDeletePipillotti Rist’s work shows a perspective of defying social norms and acceptances. So much of everyday urges and thoughts are ignored because of the regulations and pressures our society has created. The girl in Ever Is All Over is casually and happily walking down a public street smashing car windows with a giant flower. The way she is dressed and facial expressions she carries doesn't portray her as rebellious, although the actions she is doing do. Pipillotti is creating an environment of reality with a bazaar things happening. She shows a police women walking down the street and almost smiling in approval at the girl’s actions. Both Ever Is All Over and I Want to See How You See show images that would not be accepted by society. They both show a perspective of defying social behaviors by ignoring or simply not being surrounded by judgment or law.
ReplyDeletePipillotti Rist's uses her videos as an outlet to express and perform actions that would normally be rejected by society. For example when she is smashing the window of the cars. In normal society she would be arrested and punished for destroying other peoples property, but in this video she is rewarded for her actions with a friendly smile. She explains that there are rules that people need to survive together, but there are other rules that serve no purpose. The result of these purposeless rules is self punishment and much questioning of ones self. Through her actions and edits in the video Rist expresses her views on woman's gullibility. She is able to represent this, but at the same time she is empowering women to express themselves in a similar way.
ReplyDeleteI thought pipillotti's work dealt with prejudice and 'guilty by association'. The police walked by the woman smashing the cars with a flower but ignored it because the police was completely blind to it due to the fact that it was a pleasant looking woman in a dress and heals. This corresponds to the way in which everyone does this throughout their daily lives, we constantly are blind to things based on a pre perception of that person or thing due to the way they look and society's label of that look.
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