Word: brechtã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...intelligent, creative artist looking to express himself through his work. Though he confesses to needing the motivation deadlines provide, David doesn’t mind engaging a perfect stranger in conversation about this or that creative project. For instance he is currently preparing for an upcoming performance of Brecht??€™s Baal, performing with IGP—one of the student improv groups on campus—and writing a creative dramatic thesis whose explanation warrants more space than this profile can give. Commenting on the different perceptions of him floating around campus, David muses, “people...
...three artists exhibited in Eat Art, Dieter Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht??€™s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does...
...Leopards threatened later in the quarter, but Martin Brecht??€™s 34-yard field goal went wide left, and the remainder of the game was dominated by the Quakers...