Friday, December 5, 2008

After Gilian Wearing


As a group we explored Wearing’s techniques of live art by asking random people on the street what they were thinking and writing it down and then taking a photo of them.
The purpose of this experiment was to practically explore another form of live art. This type of live art engages with a wider audience and we could find out quite a lot from people by the answers they wrote down for us.
We approached different types of people to get a varied response: black, white, Asian, old, young. We approached people at bus stops, in shops and at garages to get a wide range of people. We did not approach people who seemed busy, stressed or had children with them because we did not want to draw too much attention to ourselves as this could distract others away from us.
I felt that the experiment was very successful and it proves that live art can connect or engage with everyone unlike something personal like a painting or a 2d or 3d object.

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