Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia in 1970 and graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown. He moved with his family to England in 1978,obtaining British citizenship. He first studied for a National Diploma in fashion and clothing at Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design. His graduate collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows", contained clothes which he had buried in his back yard and dug up again.An instant sensation, the whole collection was purchased and displayed in luxury designer store Browns, London. As we talked about his in class this skirt is very interesting. It is a table and then turns into  a table.. (Wikapedia)

I went to farmlab however my pictures are being dumb and will not upload so i found a few kind of like the ones i took.. I thought this place was really pointless. When i went I went on a friday like we were told over spring break and I gotlost and rove past it about 3 times.. It was hard for me to find parking and no one there wanted to help me.. I went in and it looked kind of bland to me not exatcly what i had expected. I asked the peole there to help me but most of them were all at lunch.. So I walked around by myself and I didnt stay ling because it just wasnt interesting to me as the other ones were. I liked how the cars had the plants on it..That was real cool.. I also like all the isgns there.. Ienjoyed reading those the most. So all in all I didnt liek this farmlab thing and i think it is totally pointless.. There is no longer public speaker to tell us things nor free food and there was seriously no one in there.. It was just me and like two other people. Like i said i didnt stay long or even look at the whole thing because the people working there were so rude. They wouldnt even take my picture for me.. I could not believe it.. So I wish i could upload my pics from what i took but im going to keep trying.

Yoko Ono

Ono was an explorer of Conceptual  and PErformance art.. An example of her performance art is "Cut Piece" (this instance of performance art is also known as a "happening"), first performed in 1964 at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo. Cut Piece had one destructive verb as its instruction: "Cut." Ono executed the performance in Tokyo by walking on stage and casually kneeling on the floor in a draped garment. Audience members were requested to come on stage and begin cutting until she was naked. Cut Piece was one of Ono’s many opportunities to outwardly communicate her internal suffering through her art. Ono had originally been exposed to Jean- Pauls theories of existentialism in college, and in order to appease her own human suffering, Ono enlisted her viewers to complete her works of art in order to complete her identity as well. Besides a commentary on identity, Cut Piece was a commentary on the need for social unity and love. It was also a piece that touched on issues of gender and sexism as well as the greater, universal affliction of human suffering and loneliness. Ono performed this piece again in London and other venues, garnering drastically different attention depending on the audience. In Japan, the audience was shy and cautious. In London, the audience participators became zealous to get a piece of her clothing and became violent to the point where she had to be protected by security. An example of her conceptual art includes her book of instructions called Grapefruit.  This book, first produced in 1964, includes surreal, Zen-like instructions that are to be completed in the mind of the reader, for example:" Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies." ( wikedpidia)

Jamie Isenstein

artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=21668
Here is an interview with Jamie Isentein.

> EXHIBITED WITH THESE ARTISTS

Jamie Isenstein has exhibited with these artists:

Barbara Bloom	Sophie Calle
Trisha Donnelly	Sam Durant
Maria Eichhorn	Sylvie Fleury
Felix Gonzalez-Torres	Dan Graham
Renée Green	Fabrice Gygi
Mike Kelley	Thomas Kratz
Gabriel Kuri	Louise Lawler
Leigh Ledare	Sam Lewitt
Allan McCollum	Michele Di Menna
Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock	Pavel Pepperstein
Walter Robinson	Aura Rosenberg
Jim Shaw	Greg Parma Smith
Francis Upritchard	Iori Wallace
John Waters	and Lawrence Weiner
Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz	ivan matos

> EXHIBITED AT THESE VENUES

Jamie Isenstein has exhibited at these venues:

Galerie Kamm

Michael Benevento

Swiss Insitute

Hammer Museum

Andrew Kreps Gallery

ArtSlant

Xavier Cha

He does Body Drama art..

> EXHIBITED WITH THESE ARTISTS

Xavier Cha has exhibited with these artists:

Einat Amir	Julieta Aranda
Fia Backström	My Barbarian
Justin Beal	Daniel Bozhkov
Ethan Breckenridge	Francesca DiMattio
Chris Dorland	Jim Drain
Eteam	Jenna Gribbon
Guyton/Walker	Jens Haaning
Fritz Haeg	Hope Hilton
Hannah Hoffmann	Alex Hubbard
Andrea Huelse	Nancy Hwang
Anna Lundh	Corey McCorkle
Dave McKenzie	Dave McKenzie.
Gean Moreno	Caris Reid
Hanna Sandin	Garth Weiser
Andzrej Zielinski	Maayan Zilberman

> EXHIBITED AT THESE VENUES

Xavier Cha has exhibited at these venues:

Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte

The Kitchen

Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA NOMI)

Taxter & Spengemann

Studio Museum in Harlem

ArtSlant

Stelarc

In class we talkled about this guy..I found him extremely wierd and I cant figure out why he does these kinds of projests.. He gets needles stuck into him he had an ear made and put into his arm.. He has hung from hooks.. This guy does someof the wierdest stuff. I feel he may be not all there or just enjoys the pain for pleassure. Its interesting to me nad yet at the same time repulssive.

Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft
Biography

Born:   1969, Genoa, Italy
Resides:  Los Angeles, CA
Education: 1983-1987  Civico Liceo Artistico Nicolo' Barabino
    (Architettura), Genoa, Italy
      1987-1988 Accademia Ligustica Di Belle Arti
    (Pittura), Genoa, Italy
      1988-1993 Accademia Di Belle Arti Di Brera
    (Scenografia), Milan, Italy

Solo Exhibitions & Performances
2010
Carrara, Italy, VB67, Studio Nicoli. Sept 4th
Naples, Italy, VB66, Mercato Ittico. Feb 15th