2. Art & Spirituality: What makes a piece spiritual? Is it the viewer's interaction with that work? Is it the spiritual state of the artist as he/she is creating that piece? Is spirituality equivalent to consciousness or awareness?
3. Art & Audience: Hans Robert Jauss's "'reception theory' held that the reader/viewer does not passively receive a text, but actively 'negotiates' with it to reach an interpretation based on his or her cultural background and personal experiences." If our cultural background and personal experiences change over time, do we "negotiate" the artwork differently? How does art exist in relation to time?
4. Art & Audience: John Ahearn's Homage to the People of the Bronx, Double Dutch at Kelly Street I uses body casts of local residents and the casting is often done during block parties. In such works where the audience participation becomes part of the piece, is it necessary for the viewer to know the history to fully appreciate it? Can an outside viewer with no previous knowledge of Ahearn's works appreciate Homage without explanation?
5, Art & Audience: Where is the line between art and activism? Is Tim Rollins, founder of Group Material and K.O.S., an activist or an artist? What about Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses or Bolek Breczynski and Dr. Janos Marton's The Living Museum? Lowe, Breczynski and Marton are creating places in which art is created... but does that make them artists or just the facilitators?
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