we have been discussing via Whatsapp, a not-so-smooth start as we could not agree on a consistent route. Three is a tough number to debate in, but we managed.
Discussion topics:
Entanglement, interference and collision.
MC and I had similar starting points: interference and entanglement. I’m currently projecting to work with lighting, possibly strobe. Reading about light artworks there have been issues with members of the public suffering from migraines and even seizures. So my thoughts are, arts interfering with the public, do artists have a right to show work irrelevant of its accessibility to all. Should the artist be allowed to ‘interfere’ with the public in a physical sense?
To disorientate, discombobulated, in the physical sense or to argue that artists shouldn’t interfere and we have no place to.
My thoughts were that we need to find our anger
I’m feeling that we need to find our ‘anger’ regarding what provokes us in our art-making. Where does the passion lie, how does that relate to entanglement, interference and collision?
For me, I am passionate about how the audience experiences art, I feel that art can move people when they become a part of it, immersion or activity.
I get ‘angry’ when an artist doesn’t consider the audience or says that it doesn’t matter. I appreciate that art has different meanings for many, by my passion is in the movement and emotion in the audience. I want to provoke something in them, even if it’s discomfort or anxiety. This does apply to 2D work as well as sculpture and performance, I feel that you can be moved or made uncomfortable by an object.
Art and Audience - Emma Wilcox - TEDxNJIT - art experiences are no longer viewed as an exchange between equals - it loses its magic -
MC was happy to counter that argument and say that artists need to be careful and have no right to challenge people, provoke them etc. That artists can overstep the line, to distinguish the lines between ok conduct as an artist and not ok conduct as an artist and make some distinction to say that some artists have crossed the line and that is not ok of them. People are accountable and just saying it is art is not an excuse
RF looked at these main points: -artists have to interfere with the audience perception so that there can be an engagement with the work. - that it has to be the role of the artist to ’overstep’ because of the need to inform the audience.