>A word that keeps coming to my mind is intervention, not interactivity.
I began my museum studies in 1991 after about five years involvement in ACT
UP, working with Simon Watson on exhibition strategies at his experimental
work space on Lafayette Street in New York and showing with Meyers/Bloom
Gallery in Los Angeles, who saw my work in relationship to artists like Ann
Hamilton who they also showed.
I wasn't particularly concerned with institutional critique or
deconstruction (though I find those methods useful at times) but in the
possible uses of abandoned institutional space, with and without the
permission of the institution. Abandoned not in the sense of being deserted
but in that the guards weren't paying attention. That is the technique used
by ACT UP in creating disturbences to open up new space to work in the
institutional environment created by AIDS. While I was very interested in
working with art institutions interactively my experiences had shown that
sometimes you also have to devise methods of intervention in the abandoned
spaces, a kind of institutional "squatting".
Robbin Murphy
murph@artnetweb.com
<i> i o l a </i> http://artnetweb.com/iola/
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