It's not about the location, it is what you do with it...It is not about the location, it is how people interact daily with it (or at all). When making art in a location one must have a relationship with the space, then see how others interact with it. I am still feeling out how my location that I chose works with the art I am making. I want to make a piece that is worth viewing. I am actually very excited for Monday's crit, except it will be very hard to have people understand the location purely from video and pictures. We'll see what happens.
Miwn Kwon's Introduction to her book was a little difficult to read. The formatting was messed up, yes, but her sentences were extraordinarily too long. I wound up writing notes on the side of the article and looking up words like "agglomeration" (which means an action or process of collecting in a mass with objects from other places - not the same objects) to better understand the article. Overall it was a good read.
The discussion we had in class about Tilted Arc by Richard Sera was a good discussion. It really made me think about the absurdity of public art at times and how it can just piss off people while concepts can go over their heads. It was a very formalist sculpture that was perfectly placed for what is was meant to do, so was it successful? I think it was, but no one liked it so maybe not. I need to research more about what Richard Sera's reaction to it being torn down was.
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