An audience’s reaction
I asked my partner and some friends to come to The Collection. I merely said we were going to look around the museum and meet them there, I said I would meet them in the café.
I wanted to find out their reactions without expecting some sort of performance.
When they spotted me outside of the café, I kept one eye on them. They looked at me in confusion and looked around the whole “exhibit” until they clocked that it was a performance.
I asked them after it was finished what did they think and did they understand what we were doing.
My partner agreed with Dan’s criticism and said the mimic up top didn’t seem to be part of it and she didn’t understand what was going. She did however once looking around notice it was an exhibit, and I was a piece of art.
When I asked my friends they agreed with the general observation and they said once they stared closely at Jennifer and I they noticed we were mimicking the people inside the café.
My partner as a person, who is not interested in drama in the slightest, said site specific was highly interesting. They have never been drama people but they understood that what we were performing was the location.
As Kaye (2000, p220) said, “Finally, it is to this end that site-specific art so presciently works against its own final or definitive location, as, though this wide variety of forms and strategies, it speculates toward the performance of its places.”
Even people oblivious to drama and was site specific is understood that we were an art gallery showing café culture and understood perfectly what we were trying to do.
Bibliography:
Kaye, N., (2000). Site-specific Art. Oxton: Routledge p220.
Gabriel Davies