My Reflection About Artwork Presentation

On the last Thursday, my class had a presentation session in Humanistic Studies class. In this session, each group had to present an artwork they had chosen. They would explore more about the multiculturalism core in the artwork. It can be about stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination or conflict. The artwork itself could be a song, poem, movie etc. Then, the performances of each group were very amazing. Each group had its own way to present what they had analyzed from the artwork. For example, a group presented a poem written by a local humanist. They played the video and gave their analysis. While another group showed a song that contained a deep core in multiculturalism.

Then, my group brought a song titled “Wind of Change” that performed by Scorpion. The reason why we chose this song is because this song tells about the conflict among West & East Germany. This conflict at the time had existed for years until in 1991 the Berlin Wall was destroyed.   From this song, we tried to explore the conflict from the song and also the concept of conflict itself. After we finished the presentation that only lasted for 5 minutes (that’s the maximal duration :D), we got the feedback from our lecturer. Ms.Nisa, one of our “awesome” lecturers in SSE said that she was very happy having Scorpion’s song in our presentation. It was because she felt that there is no a long generation gap between her and us :D.

Feedback from her was about our exploration. We got less in exposing the song. We too much focused on the theory about conflict and left the song itself. So the song was just like an attribute, whereas the song itself has many values that are worthy to explore. But the presentation itself had been very scientific since we included the basic theories. Then she also said that all groups’ presentations were similar with research. Why? Because we had to find all facts behind the artwork and the theories that became basis of our argument. I like this session very much because I can learn from any kind of media, even from art. Ms.Nisa & other lecturers give me spaces to accommodate my creativity wider and wider. I’m so lucky. 😀