While I was not able to make it to the Lunchtime Lecture in person, I was able to learn a great deal from the video taped of the lecture uploaded onto Facebook. A lot of the recent works Freyer has engaged in, like "Free Hot Supper," are a lot tilted toward the "social practice" side of social practice art than anything I had been exposed to before. A lot of his work is also influenced by his past with substance abuse, and I really enjoyed seeing how he incorporated this in an extremely nontraditional way. A piece of his that I thought was especially interesting was the Free Ice Water Project, where two people sit down and have a conversation, sharing a jar of ice water, about turning points in their lives. At the end of the conversation, the two people put a token into the jar and fill it up with water. I thought it was extremely interesting how this jar could become a physical manifestation for a temporary conversation. It made me think a lot about how a lot of art is made in the chase of solidifying temporary moments, but Freyer's work is especially reflective of this. I think I want to incorporate this idea into my work and deal with the temporary.
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