When I first started watching Michael's videos, I am pretty sure I was just confused as the people he was interviewing. Unfortunately I waited a few minutes to read the disclaimer that "all of the arguments were scripted" haha. However, once I understood the concept of his project, then I thought it was quite hilarious. I am very interested about how this idea came about, because I would have never thought of it myself. It seems simple enough but the fact that it is essentially a project within a project makes it very interesting.
I enjoyed watching all of Michael's videos this quarter because they were all edited and executed very well, this one included. I thought that it was the perfect choice to always have one of the two of them off camera so that it was just an expressionless, interrupting, voice coming from the background. Because of this, I was able to put myself in Michael's position as the simple task of interviewing someone became more and more difficult.
It is funny how people reacted to the awkwardness of a couple fighting. The first guy seemed the most uncomfortable, while another guy enjoyed talking about subjects other than art, and the last girl took all of it as a joke. My feelings changed throughout the course of the interviews as well. At first, I felt really frustrated because I wanted to know what the interviewees were going to talk about. But then the longer I watched, the more comedic it became. I ended up be less interested in the questions and more so in the reactions of everyone involved. I wasn't so much frustrated any more as I was ready to fight back with an equally sarcastic comment.
All and all I thought that this was a great personal space project. It really felt like Michael focused on the term "personal space" in relation to a public atmosphere. I could relate to the situation as I am sure that many other people could but it was nice to observe it from an outside perspective. In the end, Michael as well as everyone else involved really showed what art is, and it no longer mattered that they could not physically answer the question in words.
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