The Big Mirror (2008), by Jan Mancuska
imagery, installation, mirror, photography, production, space, work of artMonday, April 22nd, 2013
The point of departure for the selection of texts in this reader is the social dimension of participation – rather than activation of the individual viewer in so-called “interactive” art and installation. The latter trajectory has been well rehearsed elsewhere: the explosion of new technologies and the breakdown of medium-specific art in the 1960s provided myriad opportunities for physically engaging the viewer in a work of art.
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The field of art is today frequently equated with the art market, and the artwork is primarily identified as a commodity. That art functions in the context of the art market, and every work of art is a commodity, is beyond doubt; yet art is also made and exhibited for those who do not want to be art collectors, and it is in fact these people who constitute the majority of the art public. The typical exhibition visitor rarely views the work on display as a commodity.
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