"…these are not 'happenings', 'live art' or, worst of all, 'public
art' - these aren't experiences created to celebrate the liberation of
art from the constrictions of the White Cube, and the high capitalist
symbolic value bestowed upon art by those hermetically sealed walls.
Enough politics already! For some critics, art cannot exist amongst the
quotidian without taking to the barricades. It's damned if it keeps
quiet within the safe walls of the museum, and damned if it tries to
live outside that space without constantly reminding you of that fact.
For isn't most 'public' art exactly like the worst kind of evangelist -
carrying a bundle a pamphlets behind its back whilst it tries to disarm
you with a handshake? There's no real risk there - no commitment to
existing more than a toddler's-step from the safe arms of the curators
and critics, plaques and pronouncements that silently re-build white
gallery walls around their 'interventions' into our city streets. Much
harder to just put something out there, to put yourself in someone
else's shoes, to risk misunderstandings and rejection."
- matt locke
http://www.jillianmcdonald.net/public/public_eye.html
http://hacks.mit.edu
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/Finster/finster2.html
http://cmc.uib.no/jill/txt/onlinecaroline.html
http://www.tank20.com/MARSHA/
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to just put something out there
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