From Site to Community
Monique Wilmoth
- How does one encourage the "man on the street" viewer to become an artist themselves through only exhibition of other projects?
- What is the community response when an "outsider" interferes with their physical space? How does the community feel when an artist makes art referencing a community but only gathers these notions through assumption and research? Not life experience.
- How did the women feel?
- How was the practice of "Culture in Action" initially received?
- How is community activism received in geographic areas dealing with serious community issues (ie. poverty, AIDS, etc.)?
Observations & resonating thoughts
- Artists can do as they please without being constricted by a (perhaps) unwanted collaborator. & with the importance of choosing a location, site can have more of a connection to the artist, as it is chosen.
- A relationship between the artist and public is formed in a bridge that is the artwork itself.
- "Art in the public interest"
- "Postmodern social realism," new genre public art also insists on a move away from the universalizing tendencies of modernist abstraction, to celebrate instead the particular realities of "ordinary" people and their "everyday" experiences."
- Dialogue between artist and community.
- Art that collides with the street corner can be eye-opening to the passerby. Art as messenger.
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