What is Expressionism?

I think that expressionism is a way of art where the artist expresses emotions in radical ways. The video of the Japanese form of dance had a creeping and disturbing way of emotion through the body where as  in the operas you could hear the singers' pain in their voices. Expressionism seems like a form that is settling but more dynamic in the sense of death.
Also I had realized the haunting use of space in the performances. any prop being used was simple and also the colors that were used contributed to the feel or the performance. The dark light helped make the space either feel vast or small. Expressionism to me seems like a way of expressing emotions through a intense and torturing way.

STAC Live

Now with STAC live approaching it is amazing how different this show will be and all the prepping  is from last year. It is very interesting how a single thought can connect to all different videos, movies, and pictures. It seemed really difficult to find a connecting aspect between all of these different projects without changing the very project itself but to dream is the very core subject in all of these videos. Last year the prepping for Stac live was with all the dancing and more promoting the idea of stac, stac, stac. But it seems different this year since Stac live has became the chance for us students to really make what we want and weave it into each other. For example, I really wanted to make an installation this since I was able to make on last year without it turning half-bad. With all of the school regulations and rules against fire hazards it turned out to be quite difficult to go through with the original idea I had. I had spent two hours deciding on different ideas and every way they can or cannot work until a saw a picture on Ashley's laptop of a subway tunnel  with two people. So in that five or somewhat second I whipped out an idea that turned out to be the best one. Weird how things turn out but sometimes there is no need to over contemplate something.