After my recent exhibition i have realised how annoying it is watching people viewing my work.
in the future i am going to avoid this by not going to my own opening nights and getting footage/photos when the place is shut.
I had a video installation- which consisted of two tv monitors facing each other. I was on one screen and vito acconci was on the other- this was a conversation scenario, so the two screens had to be viewed simultaneously- watching one person at a time kind of defied the point.
But thats what people did- stood in front of one screen for 5 minutes, then stood in front of the other screen for five minutes and then walked away. I put this down to people being so used to a certain way of viewing art. I dont know if anyone has seen the art gallery sketch on the comedy 'snuff box' but it is very much like that. I could have moved the screens closer together to make it more obvious that it was a conversation- but that would be ridiculous- instead i just learned that you have to deal with people making their own interpretations of your work- intended or not. This sounds like a very obvious thing to say, i know, its just the first non 2D piece i have exhibited =)
this has lead me to do some work which looks at how we view art- i will post more about this soon.
