Event 1

Fowler Museum 

One of the events I attended this quarter was right here on our ownMaking Strange: Gagawaka Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram currently resides in UCLA's Fowler Museum, a place that in my four years at UCLA I had yet to visit (Fowler). The first thing I did was watch a video in the exhibit about Sundaram and learned a bit more about the Indian contemporary artist (wiki). After learning about Sundaram, I explored the exhibit and quickly realized how well it applied to our discussions about different medical sciences. It was interesting how the use of the materials throughout juxtaposed with the finitely of life (Dambrot).
UCLA campus. Overall, it was an amazing afternoon taking in all of the culture that has been right under my nose for so long.
The outfits alone were like walking through a Lady Gaga fashion show, but know what I learned in this class I was able to see past that and dig deeper into the exhibit as more than just novelty outfits (Artfour

m). The obviously contemporary art takes into account many different aspects of life in order to comment on it: neurology, organs, and medtech such as x-rays(Postmodernist). The two pieces shown in this blog are the
two that I thought most encompassed this class. The one at the left really captured neuroscience and art in my opinion, and the one on the right really brought to reality medtech and art. Going to the Fowler and experiencing technology and art so close to where I have spent the last four years of my life really brought this course to life for me.




Sources:

Dambrot, Shana. "Making Strange: Gagawaka Postmortem." L.A. Weekly. Web. 5 June 2015.


"Making Strange: Gagawaka Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram | Fowler Museum at UCLA." Making Strange: Gagawaka Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram | Fowler Museum at UCLA. Web. 5 June 2015.  

"Postmodernist Art Definition, Characteristics, History." Postmodernist Art: Definition, Characteristics, History. Web. 5 June 2015.  

"Vivan Sundaram." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 5 June 2015.  

"Vivan Sundaram Talks about GAGAWAKA." Artforum.com. Web. 5 June 2015.