Our experience with Art changes with setting. Graffiti on the walls of an alleyway is vandalism while metal forms in Modern Art museums are carefully contemplated. Both serve different purposes, but both are Art.
How do we interact with Art? What do we consider to be “High Art”? Why do we choose to display some pieces of Art while destroying others? In my series of inkjet photographic prints, Interactive Sculptures, I explore some of these questions by encouraging the audience to collaborate with me in acts of creative performance.
This project is ongoing, and although I am not able to stage any performances at this time due to covid-19, I would love to see what you would add to these sculptures. So please, do so! and if you do, send them my way!
If you’d like to read more about the creation of this project, click on the button titled ‘Learn More’ below. If you’d like to download the Interactive Sculptures, click the button titled ‘Download’ below.
This project was made possible with funding from the Eduardo Carillo Memorial Scholarship; artistic critique from Karolina Karlic, Norman Locks, and my cohort from the 2018 Spring quarter Advanced Photography class conducted by Norman Locks. I received technical help from UCSC Art Department Operations and Facility Manager J. Gaston and others at the UCSC Art department.
The files available through the link titled ‘Download’ are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.