Head On

At first, I thought it would just be a movie about showing about different culture; Turkish. Even when I got the email saying that the movie is intense at some point I could not imagine how intense it would be before I watched it. It was a shocking and very intense to watch. I grew up in Korea and Korean culture is pretty conservative and strict too, but the Turkish culture was much more conservative. Turkish women can only get married to Turkish men, desire to run away from the family and escape from the culture, seeking for freedom. Family dignity being important than anything, it is considered even more important the daughter was very shocking for me. The plot of the movie is , i feel like somewhat similar to us in a way that we seek of something that isn't ordinary to find freedom and out desire to find exit from our ordinary life. I was not very happy about the movie right after i watched it, but after having discussion about the movie and thinking about it, overall i think it is a well plotted movie as whole.

Fair play

It was actually first time to go see a play at Meany Theater. I thought the play was very...unpredictable? It was an illusion throughout the whole play. I found the setting interesting in a way that people were in there own spaces and the light control and when they eventually moved to downstairs, it reminded me of the composition we did in our Berlin seminar class. Use of elevation and building up and tearing it down to some extent. I relly enjoyed how people interpreted the airplane by moving the set by themselves, and also the sound effect. Honestly, I was a little bit confused during the play, but I understood after watching the play and talking to some people about the play. Life as fantasy which I thought little strange but it was an impressive play.

Composition

How could we come up with a composition using German we learned, to build up, break and build up again? We have to bring in our research topic as well. Only German I know was to say hi, count up to twenty...........yes. What can we do? As a group we gathered around before Thursday and gathered some thoughts. When we actually stepped outside to find the space to present our composition, we were in luck that we could find stairs to go up and come down; which could be used as change in elevation and use of space. Our group is focusing on art(performing art, music pieces, and visual art as well), we sang a song during the composition and we found a quote to shout out loud.

I really enjoyed all the composition, but I must say that the second composition was my favorite.
I liked their idea of using stairs in front of the drama building, people going up and down, changing elevation. I also liked how they represented different identities, one says hi to other and they sort of look at each other weird because even though they are German, they have different identity and background they come from.
Also, the last group's composition and use of people's physical body to build up and break down was interesting as well.

I hoped that we learned more German!

Some thoughts

Even before I had an interview with Julie and Shanga, I was so sure that I wanted to focus in art when I go Berlin this summer. Reason why art is my first choice is as an art major, I think it would be very interesting to go out to a place where I've never been and meet new people, and research. I think art is for everybody, it doesn't matter whether or not they can draw or paint. I want to know people's appreciation of art pieces that are displayed in public spaces. When Sabine Lang mentioned about art spaces in subway stations. Generally arts in Berlin. I will come up with more specific ideas.

I also thought Migration and Immigration was interesting topic to research, espcially in religious aspect. Increase number of Muslims and Mosques that are built recently. I want to know where they come from, and it is intersting how different people have different beliefs. Last but not least, I find the internal security interesing. How Sabine mentioned about parking lots for women, i thought it was very cool. But why? Why not for disabled people? Why is it a big issue in Berlin? Women's rights?

My thoughts should be more organized as the quarter goes.
I'm very excited :-)