Re: [-empyre-] AFFECT

[rtf9@cornell.edu]

Dear Millie and James,

Thanks so much for writing about your projects.

I've been thinking a lot about the psychological/emotional affect of 
this kind of work on the viewer.  For example in my "Panic" project 
the viewers were able to record personal "stories" or responses 
prompted by their experiences within the context on the project 
space.  So the viewer had a physical experience that prompted a 
psychological one...thought, feeling, memory that was then recorded.

Millie explains that " I attempt cultural transgression. I experiment 
with the capacity of immaterial, non-visual elements (e.g. sound, 
scent), of unexpected sites, and of social interaction, for 
disrupting traditional definitions of art "  and James explains that 
his collaborative work "infers a displacement and a shifting of the 
dialectical terms and the viewer."

Could both  Millie and James talk more about the 
psychological/emotional reaction of their viewers--in both the 
context of public space--the street and the traditional art viewing 
space? What are the effects of this displacement/disruption/shift?

Renate


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Renate Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Cornell University
Department of Art, Tjaden Hall
<rtf9@cornell.edu>