Performance Art Starts Now

The first activity we did was very short, and quite awkward. Well, I suppose this activity was meant to be something awkward. It wasn't a challenging activity, just a small performance for the introduction of the subject, to release tensions and get warmed up a bit before the actual. The mirror activity made me laugh too much, because it was weird making faces at someone on to the mirror. However, it made me think, yeah, wasn't there any cases when someone made fun of me in the back, and I did not realise they did? How did that make me feel? Well, to that I say it wasn't a pleasant feeling. While I felt the mirror activity had some meaning, the shaking hands activity seemed shallow. I just couldn't understand what all this was about. But overall, I wasn't pressured to be perfect, so it wasn't a big deal to act however I wanted.
When ever I performed infront of the people, the very common reaction to that was getting nervous. I used to get butterflies in my stomach and felt like fainting. I think my shyness was to the extreme side as I was younger. I mean, what if I fail and perform badly in front of the crowd and get laughed at, and also let down the others? But now to think of it, these feelings and unecessary; I think these thoughts comes from the desire to be admired, wanting to be a perfectionist in front of everybody, which I'm not. In order to perform without feeling pressured I have to be able to put away these thoughts and just, be my self. The word confidence must be describing about those people who accept themselves of who they are, and thus is comfortable to expose one self, even in embarrassing moments. Thus, from this subject, I expect to be more confident about myself, and feel comfortable performing in front of the crowd.

Expansion of Museums

Some facts of the two articles are much similar-both articles speculate that museums today are in a process of expanding it's size for various reasons, like to introduce more artists and their artworks thus atrracting more people and tourists. However, they point out that expansion of museums may sound impressive, but there are several negative aftermath to the renovation- it may cause the boards and managers to pay not much attention to important, but small details like maintaining the artworks or helping the visitors fully understand the theme and their unique meaning. Now that new modern architecture and style are common and available, the art museumss will tend to care too much about the outer appearance(result of centralization on profit) than to really focus on the idea of inner beauty.
The future of museums doesn't seem stable; recently, a new virtual art museum is constructing it's way to the world of URL, which situates the museums in the verge of extinction. Seeing the new technology stepping into the classical world of art brings out questions and issues from a group of people concerned about the idea of authenticity. When trying to admire an artwork through digital just doesn't look the same, as much people do agree-which may be the result of the artwork's every little morsals of colors and details converting to mere digits of pixels-or the very presence of the artists who created it are lost. In that sense, museums are essential in expiriencing the real art work and finding the truth through them.
Though it might be that museums are damned in the near future by that wonderful term, technology, there still is hope for some other types of museums-many will be those that fits the general public's interests.