Breitz Lecture

When Breitz displayed the picture of the first gallery installation, with the hanging TVs, I could not help but think about how much I wanted to color correct that picture. She was talking about how beautiful the space was and the photo she showed of the installation was not displaying that. Then as she played the videos for us, I wanted to blow my brains out. If I had come near a room with all of those playing loudly at the same time, I would have run away screaming. If that's the effect she wanted her artwork to have, then she succeeded thoroughly with that piece. The next work, with the break down of the love songs I thought was a pretty interesting idea, and they definitely had a humorous effect, however I thought the editing of the 80's video was a little off. The mothers' piece was not what I was expecting at all, and I was really curious to see the piece with the fathers. I thought it was almost like cheating though, to use Susan Sorandon and Julia Roberts since they were both in the same movie. The Michael Jackson piece was by far my favorite. The contrast between the girl in the pink shirt that looked terrified, and stood stark still the whole song and some of the other more flamboyant dancers was great. I was surprised to see none of them broke out in the Thriller dance with the arms swinging back and forth in that weird zombie dance-move that Michael does in the video. With this artist I definitely had a bad first impression but ended up liking her in the end.