Student Learning Observation Paper

I performed an art piece on February 17th which I named “Worst Generation.” I used the object of a phone and looked at it from two different angles. From a lazy millennial and as a member of the millennial generation trying their best with the technology available to them. I will be critically examining how this performance related to my student learning objectives, while also analyzing my performance, which I did under three different theories: performativity, the alienation effect, and mimesis, poiesis, and kinesis.
This performance both related to the second student learning objective in particular. The second student learning objective is,
“Students will be able to identify the dynamics of ethnic, cultural, gender/sexual, age-based, class, regional, national, transnational, and global identities and the similarities, differences, linkages, and interactions between them,” (Anderson, 2016).
In this performance, I focused on age-based differences and how those differences dictate our interactions. I told the true stories of two people who had encounters of older generations making snap judgments due to the differences they shared (in this case, it was the use of technology). The younger generation suffers due to these interactions and it can be avoided if the older
According to Bell (2008), the alienation effect constitutes making everyday moments with a twist that has us question the moments (pg. 204). My performance exemplified this by using an everyday motion of using a phone and having people question why I am using it and what for. Every day we see people on their cell phones, walking down the street or on public transportation. People make assumptions about how this is a time waster, and thus the generation who uses it the most must waste their time. Therefore, after people make these assumptions, I show the examples of how the idea of how the use of technology can benefit people’s