I did not know what to do about this art project. It seems hard for me. I just did a very simple piece, maybe not even "art" in a way. I did it with my girlfriend and we had great time to do art together. That is a cool windy day so we do not have a chance to go to the beach. We just decided to do it in my garden and collect some leaves and stuffs from my garden. 

FARMLAB

I went to farmlab 2 weeks ago. It was so hard to find farmlab. I had lost 2 times and went many rounds to get there. It was first amazing because I have never seen one like this before. It is also called Metabolic Studio. They told me that everything single thing here is used for making movie.
I saw a lot of trees and flowers here. The most important energy source they use for planting is water and solar source. There are 3 huge bags that contains water. All trees here are planted in many different ways which I have never seen before. They all put together in a box and stand outside faced to the sun. There are also a "car-flower" which is really awesome. As I researched, it is made by Lauren Bon, a land artist.

Artist Project 8

KEVIN BRACKEN
Newmindspace is Kevin Bracken and Lori Kufner, two fun-loving artists who live in Toronto, Canada. Since March of 2005, they have been organizing free, fun, all-ages events like parties on subway cars, public pillow fights, giant games of capture the flag on city streets, massive bubble battles, public art installations and much more.  As of February 2011, they have organized over 75 outdoor events in New York City, Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco and Vancouver. These events are part of the larger urban playground movement, a loosely-knit group of event organizers around the world who share a common goal: to promote free events in public space, bring people together and create community.

This community’s biggest day of the year is International Pillow Fight Day, the first Saturday of every April – the largest event of which is Newmindspace’s Pillow Fight NYC, which can attract up to 5,000 people.
In 2011, Newmindspace is redoubling its efforts to raise money for charities such as WWF-Canada and New York’s Coalition for the Homeless, and focusing on massive public art as a way to do good in the world. These events seek out the fun and take art as a part to do good for community.

Artist Project 7

Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic
   The performances were very trying and physically exhaustive, they involved the physical and mental concentration of the artist, and they included Gina Pane's Self-Portraits that required lying on a bed frame suspended over a grid of lit candles and Vito Acconci's 1972 performance in which he masturbated under the floorboards of a gallery as visitors walked overhead. It is argued that she re-performed these works so as to pay her respect to the past, though many of the performances were altered from their originals.
   She was using a razor blade to cut the first line of a five-pointed star drawn on her stomach. The place was packed. Abramovic, naked, was installed on a round platform in the middle of the rotunda. Spectators filled the floor in front of her and lined the first few spirals of the museum's ramp, with a scattering higher up. Although one could safely assume that those on the floor had come to see Abramovic, at least some of the others must have been caught on their descent from the museum's concurrent Russia! exhibit.

Artist Project 6

Japanese Garden at UNESCO by Isamu Noguchi
         The garden is of great historical significance, being the first to have been created by a sculptor. His creation is perhaps more profoundly Japanese than anything a Japanese artist who had remained in Japan would have created, because he was trying to understand the culture of his childhood.
Isamu Noguchi is a deeply Japanese sculptor but ultimately very international and modern in his assertion of himself as an artist (a Western concept).
          UNESCO’s garden, a donation by the japanese government, is marked throughout by the Japanese spirit and at the same time it expresses Noguchi’s individual artistic creativity.

Artist Project 5

Cacophony Society

         The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” It was started in 1986 by surviving members of the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco. Cacophony has been described as an indirect culture jamming outgrowth of the Dada movement, and the Situationists. One of its central concepts is the Trip to the Zone, or Zone Trip, inspired by the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
           The Society is a loosely-structured network of individuals, banded together -- as our name suggests -- by a common love of cultural noise: belief systems, aesthetics, and ways of living striking a note of discord against prevailing harmonies.

Artist Project 4

I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) by Joseph Beuys
          In May 1974 Beuys flew to New York and was taken by ambulance to the site of the performance, a room in the René Block Gallery on East Broadway. Beuys lay on the ambulance stretcher swathed in felt. He shared this room with a wild coyote, for eight hours over three days. At times he stood, wrapped in a thick, grey blanket of felt, leaning on a large shepherd's staff. At times he lay on the straw, at times he watched the coyote as the coyote watched him and cautiously circled the man, or shredded the blanket to pieces, and at times he engaged in symbolic gestures, such as striking a large triangle or tossing his leather gloves to the animal; the performance continuously shifted between elements that were required by the realities of the situation, and elements that had purely symbolic character. At the end of the three days, Beuys hugged the coyote that had grown quite tolerant of him, and was taken to the airport. Again he rode in a veiled ambulance, leaving America without having set foot on its ground. As Beuys later explained: ‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.’
         This seems to be odd in a way of being isolated from the world around.  Beuys spent a week living with a coyote caged in the gallery and protected by felt and a cane. Eventually, the coyote and Beuys learned to co-exist in the same space. The action was Beuys way of signifying, on one level at least, that human beings need to take a closer look at the dynamic interactions of nature (coyote) and culture (Beuys). Understanding the complexities of interdependency is one of the first steps toward ecological sustainability.