Comments on: Being the Audience http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2012/09/11/being-the-audience/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: presscorps http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2012/09/11/being-the-audience/#comment-2213 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:55:32 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/?p=2721#comment-2213 In mentioning that the piece wasn’t composed by artists planning to present specifically to Portland’s audiences I wanted to acknowledge that these artists may have assumed a level of basic knowledge of Mexican history from their audience that some people in Portland, at least myself, do not have. This is my own loss of context through lack of knowledge. I definitely did not mean to ask for the works in TBA be tailored to me, or to Portland. ( And how many various kinds of audiences exist under the Portland umbrella?) My intention was to bring up how different it is to experience a work where I can feel that I am somehow invoked by the piece as its intended audience vs when a work imagines it is speaking to someone else. While it might seem slightly metaphysical, I think it is relevant to understanding art to consider who a work imagines and hopes for as its audience. I’d love to talk more about this.

Ariana

]]> By: angela mattox http://urbanhonking.com/pica/2012/09/11/being-the-audience/#comment-2151 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:04:58 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/pica/?p=2721#comment-2151 I wonder what this means ” not composed for a tba audience” . lets talk more about what is expected in this framework.

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