Boarders of the museum space

Interactive piece made me think about how a 2D piece could be powerful or not? And if we think back to the cave paintings we realize that it was not just some lines on a flat surface. It appealed to so many senses. Flickering lights, curved and textured wall, a isolating cave, a narrator perhaps, the climate changing, external light entering, noises of the animals, of echoes, etc..

I talk about how art has always been experienced in a context with all these other elements and sensory pieces to them. Did we remove all that when we started doing 2d flat paintings? Or did we just release control? Did we accept that we knew what a museum would be or we knew what a temple would look like? Are we just talking about extending boundaries so that the temple work would of course expand across the temple but end at the line between temple and city.

I talk a bit about how looking at older paintings before modern art, we still learn from the communications. Some intentional, some not, some historical, cultural, windows on the past, but also we can make up our own stories of them, see our own cultural context in them, and they can still have meaning.

And we can have an expectation about where our Art would be — bland white all, no crazy loud noises, no poor lighting, no fumes, not so crowded that no one can walk, But there’s this space that’s created for it. Can you just experience the painting as being alone? Can you be immersed? As easily?

So all art is sharing a space [universe] but as you pull back, all the art is sharing this museum space A. Interesting.