Flash mob
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- 3. A Flash Mob: is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse. - Wikipedia
- 4. History The first documented flash mob occurred in 2003 created by Bill Wasik
- 5. Since that time they have occurred in many major cities all over the world in different forms.
- 6. People have begun to use them for different purposes. (advertisement, protest, entertainment)
- 7. They are usually under 10 minutes in durationHow is a flash mob organized?Social media
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- 11. Text messagesWhat do they look like?Flash mobs have been staged using some of the following:Dance (choreographed and pre-rehearsed)
- 12. Freeze (people freeze their actions and become living statues)
- 13. Slow Mo actions or other abnormal actions
- 14. Pillow fights
- 15. Dress-up in some bizarre wayVideo
- 16. So what do these have to do with art?Flash Mobs are considered by many people to be performance art.Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular timeconstitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. It is opposed to paining or sculpture, for example, where an object constitutes the work. - Wikipedia
- 17. If Performance Art…… is live.• has no rules or guidelines. It is art because the artist says it is art. It is experimental.• is not for sale. It may, however, sell admission tickets and film rights.• may be comprised of painting or sculpture (or both), dialogue, poetry, music, dance, opera, film footage, turned on television sets, laser lights, live animals and fire. Or all of the above. There are as many variables as there are artists.is a legitimate artistic movement. It has longevity (some performance artists, in fact, have rather large bodies of work) and is a degreed course of study in many post-secondary institutions.• may be entertaining, amusing, shocking or horrifying. No matter which adjective applies, it is meant to be memorable. -Taken from http://arthistory.about.comThen why could flash mobs be considered art?
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- 19. Be Creative….It’s your turn now so:Go out and make a scene
Editor's Notes
- #3: Insert an example of a flash mob here
- #4: Have you heard of them before? Can you describe any that you have seen. (probably not live – but on the internet)
- #5: 2003 – 100 people gathered in a department store to discuss buying a love rug for their communeWasikclaimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to poke fun at hipsters and to highlight the cultural atmosphere of conformity and of wanting to be an insider or part of "the next big thing".[8 - wikipediaCompanies are now using them as promotional stunts and adsAds (t-Mobile)Protests – Hotels workersRaise Awareness (climate Change)Entertainment -
- #6: Flash mobs can be fairly secretive so that the element of surprise is maintained. People are often given a meeting place where more specific information is presented minutes before the flash mob is to take place.
- #8: Another example video or three
- #9: Because a flash mob Is a type of performance art, we have to first establish what performance art is.Does what you have seen as examples fit this description, how?
- #10: Who is the audience? – Original and onlineAre Flash mobs all art or are some used by artists to perform their art?
- #11: Another few example videos – view these to determine what makes them performance art