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Submitted by gildan02 on Tue, 2007-02-27 10:41.Week 8
I enjoyed the essay, Romancing the Looky-Loos. It started out talking about music performers and how there are people in the audiance who pay their fee, and just watch. The don't particapate in the performance in any way. In the essay they are called "looky-Loos." On paqe 148, dicussing why it is important to notice the these things it goes to say, ".....with the professionalization of the art world, and the dissolution of the underground cultures that once fed into it, the distinction between spectators and participants is dissolving well." This, in my mind brings up the question, "since intallation art requires the viewer to particapate (in most cases) not just spectate, how does an artist get the viewer to do that?"
-Dana Gillespie
