- My answer is quite boring, but I didn’t feel much from performing the maintenance art. I know for sure I felt tired. I was reaching for the stars trying to clean the statue.
- Ukeles cleaning of the steps involved restoring something to its original state, while Serra’s flinging of molten lead was destructive. They are both the same in the fact they are altering the state of something. One is being cleansed while the other dirtied. I felt that Ukeles performance wasn’t really art because it was just her cleaning steps. But Serra’s is more like art since flinging molten lead is similar to throwing paint on a canvas.
- I still don’t think her cleaning is art. All she is doing is cleaning. Whether she’s at a museum or being hired as a janitor, it’s not art. What makes an act art is the passion and drive for perfection to show to the world. I just don’t believe what she did really shows any of that.
- Art is art because of the intentions and the materials. All paintings on canvases will be art if it is considered by the person to be art. House painting would be art if it is considered by the person and general populace to be art. One example I can think of where a painting on canvas isn’t art is the art made by elephants in Thailand. Those elephants are tortured and forced to create something they aren’t aware of. Therefore, it’s not art.
- I don’t think differently about “women’s work” because it was never really something that came to mind. I don’t believe there is something called women’s work. I do believe in work that no one wants to do, resulting someone else to pick up after them. Therefore, women’s work is not art because that type of work doesn’t exist.
- I would get on my hands and knees to clean Danny Devito’s Star. Honestly, I don’t know anything about this man but my friend likes him a lot. So basically, I would do it for her.
-Rosa Eap 🙂
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