Melissa Rice Johnson Museum Field Trip

1  1)    For the first piece of art we looked at was Type A: Barrier, which was a piece of work, created by Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. They had set up curved blocks that looked like the ones that could be on construction sites. They were placed in a fashion to help instate the sense of security and it relates to one of the videos shown in Harun Farocki’s relates to these blocks in that the video that the video that showed the men going into the elevators to head to their work place and it was kind of on constant repeat. I find them similar because these men are heading down to their work place yet those blocks are already working so to say.

2)  Harun Farocki’s instillation of 11 videos helped changed the video’s original meanings since the later decades changed in process of what the actual footage should mean. In the last film installment it is more of a film like from a movie scene and doesn’t really capture the postmodern factories. The installation also put a loop in a specific part of the film it was showing to possibly show the repetitiveness of the work force during those times.