week one response
Why does it need to be defined? The purpose of this book and others that we have read throughout this course has focused on trying to define installation art, what makes something an installation. But it seems that when you make a modern art piece, you do not think what genera will this fit in, but what emotion this will incite. On page 28, they discuss the possibility of re-naming installation art as one of the terms used to describe it. Words like “intervention”, “interaction”, “interior art”, “ambient”, “event” and “project.” Words that mostly have the same meaning, with a slight change in the connotation of the word. As though a slightly different name will help the genre be better understood. I have to agree with Keith Tyson when he said, “that a work of contemporary art should not make the viewer ask ‘what is it about’ but how do I feel.”
