{"id":13175,"date":"2013-05-23T01:53:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T01:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/23\/stop-thinking-about-art-works-as-objects-and\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T01:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T01:53:50","slug":"stop-thinking-about-art-works-as-objects-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/23\/stop-thinking-about-art-works-as-objects-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott\u2019s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don\u2019t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre\u2019s bricks or Andrew Serranos\u2019s piss or Little Richard\u2019s \u2018Long Tall Sally\u2019 are art, because we say, \u2018Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.\u2019 \u2026 [W]hat makes a work of art \u2018good\u2019 for you is not something that is already \u2018inside\u2019 it, but something that happens inside you \u2014 so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Brian Eno (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jessiethatcher.tumblr.com\/\">jessiethatcher<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I could reblog\/post this every day as a constant reminder.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/\">notational<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Amen, Eno.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/absolumentmoderne.tumblr.com\/\">absolumentmoderne<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott\u2019s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don\u2019t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre\u2019s bricks or Andrew Serranos\u2019s piss or Little Richard\u2019s \u2018Long Tall Sally\u2019 are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/05\/23\/stop-thinking-about-art-works-as-objects-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}