“Walking Art The Movement Inbetween” by Andreas Hudelist and Elena Pilipets was a more difficult article to grasp personally. However I found the main concepts interesting such as the ideas on contemporary art and how it has blended into our everyday practices in society and as a social construct. It discusses the blurred line between art and life; how art once used to be contained to certain spaces and audiences but is now experienced outwardly in more social spaces. I do agree with this, and it makes me think of Marina Abramovic’s public piece in Time Square where she was whipping herself repeatedly. That piece may once have been contained to the walls and audiences in MoMA, but in that instance was experienced by anyone who happened to be walking down the street, thus blurring the lines between everyday life and contemporary art. I think the point of the article is to show how nontraditional contemporary art breaks more boundaries and makes more of an impact, especially when it entangles with life and other external factors.
“Relational art is being confronted with the challenge of “breaking free of what appears to be free already.” The art world is constantly expanding and redefining what art is, and this article challenges the idea that art is everything and in everything, and art is a lived experience. They also mention the merging of art and politics, and how art can open up a space for new discussions and ideas from the audience that weren’t initially intended in the art itself, but rather just happened as the art happened.
