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- From: st20m@rosie.uh.edu (Joiner, Paul B.)
- Newsgroups: alt.artcom
- Subject: Re: What is Art? :-)
- Followup-To: alt.artcom
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:21 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <eauu018-270193010619@714-725-3167.nts.uci.edu>, eauu018@orion.oac.uci.edu (FTB) writes...
- >
- >Anything presented as art by the visual artist in this day and time is art.
- >
- Only visual art?
-
- >
- >Just a survey so we all can get a background on eachother... who is a
- >visual artist, and who is just a public viewer giving his/her opinion?
- >
- >Glenn Kaino
- I am an actor (read performance artist if you prefer) who also dabbles
- in visual art (computer graphics, scene painting), and even some writing
- on occasion.
-
- I am curious what you mean by "just a public viewer." I have always
- functioned under the Artaudian notion that art (the performance in my case)
- doesn't exist until it is shared with an audience. The experience that is
- art is not created by the artist, but by the audience in their own minds.
- What an artist creates is merely a catalyst to that experience.
-
- The audience, then, validates the artists creations.
-
- Basicly, I believe that if they don't get it, it don't count.
-
- Paul b. Joiner
- The Lorax I am the Lorax, koo koo ka joo
- st20m@jetson.uh.edu
-