What To Do If You Are Passed a Book

Add your petition and pass the book onto someone who will do the same. Please send the book back when full or if you have no one you can pass it to. The deadline of April 1. 2011, is to avoid the postal increase set to happen mid April. Send it back even if you miss the deadline. By putting the Petition Box Project address as the return address also, the additional postage will be covered on this end.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Anti-object Objective

I was in NYC, going through the Guggenheim and was pulled into participating in "This Progress" by Tino Segal. The 'art' in it was the conversation that took place between willing participants like myself and the "interpreters". A conversation started at the base of the winding ramp, by an 8 year old who asked me a question about my notion of progress. The conversation continued in complexity with gradually older 'interpreters' as I moved up the ramp.  Google "This Progress" to learn more about the show. It is an anti-object approach to art, but also one that aims to actively engage the viewer/participants in the act of creating the aesthetic experience, rather than a passive, observational role. I would put a picture of it here to see, but the artist's agreement was to have no pictures, just those created by the experience. Interesting!

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