Interacting: Art, research and the Creative Practitioner
Interacting: Art, research and the Creative Practitioner
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互动:艺术、研究和创意实践者
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2011
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L. Candy
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E. Edmonds;L. Candy
We live in an age when interacting is an everyday phenomenon. The word ‘interaction’ is used to express many kinds of interplay between people and artefacts, even events, and has become part of our daily vocabulary. Interaction implies a two-way process, in which we expect to give, as well as to receive, an expectation that is fundamental to the kinds of interactive experiences we are likely to encounter throughout our lives. Digital technology has opened the door to opportunities for expanding interaction of many kinds, including artworks. It is an open door because, for some time now, the public have had expectations of interactivity in galleries and museums and, indeed, in the street. That expectation sometimes borders on a sense of entitlement to touch, to speak to or move about art works in a manner which audiences of the past could only have dreamed of. “Please do not touch” as the nearest sign to an artwork can still be found in many exhibitions especially because of the high value placed on historically significant works, but, nevertheless, a perceptible change has taken place in the world of the museum visitor. Today we are often invited to touch, tread on, write on or make contact with the artwork in any number of other ways. People visiting galleries and museums are no longer 'viewers'; those formerly known as 'the audience', are often 'participants'. Taking an active part in an installation is no longer unfamiliar: indeed, people have entirely different expectations of what is possible. In October 2010, the Tate Modern in London was forced to close access to Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seedsi because the enthusiasm of the crowd’s interaction with the work had produced dust potentially damaging to health. Many people were outraged. Denied the opportunity to run, roll about and jump through the installation of millions of tiny porcelain sunflower seeds on the floor of the Turbine Hall, a hint of mutiny could be felt in the airii. The right to interact was being thwarted. In Budapest this year, visitors to the Labor gallery obeyed the invocation by the artist Stephen Scrivener to sit, to view, to touch and rearrange objects, and, although not asked to do so, sometimes put everything neatly back together again. As this and the incidents in the Turbine Hall reveal, interacting can evoke very different kinds of responses.