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Vocabulary
artist residence
1. Is "artist residence" the title of this artwork?
2. Does the highlighted "which" refer to "condition"?
The artists are renowned for their creation of ‘anarchic art events’ or ‘demented playgrounds’ that situate spectator-participants in ‘psychic environments’. In 2000, they illicitly installed a temporary balcony from the 91st floor of one of the World Trade Center towers in New York.31 As Matsui explains, for the visitor to this ‘artist residence’, as it was called, the effect was intended to turn the tables on them from the safety of a voyeuristic viewpoint to acuteexposure:
The act of standing for a few minutes on the balcony made them physically experience the precariousness of their condition, which they had created but could not control. By changing the spectator’s position from the inside to the outside, the performance transformed the effect of overlooking the world from a high window from a sense of omnipotence into feelings of vulnerability.
2. Does the highlighted "which" refer to "condition"?
The artists are renowned for their creation of ‘anarchic art events’ or ‘demented playgrounds’ that situate spectator-participants in ‘psychic environments’. In 2000, they illicitly installed a temporary balcony from the 91st floor of one of the World Trade Center towers in New York.31 As Matsui explains, for the visitor to this ‘artist residence’, as it was called, the effect was intended to turn the tables on them from the safety of a voyeuristic viewpoint to acuteexposure:
The act of standing for a few minutes on the balcony made them physically experience the precariousness of their condition, which they had created but could not control. By changing the spectator’s position from the inside to the outside, the performance transformed the effect of overlooking the world from a high window from a sense of omnipotence into feelings of vulnerability.
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1. Yes. " In fact, the work is even portrayed as a kind of "residence" for the artists who created it.
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- " In fact, the work is even portrayed as a kind of "residence" for the artists who created it.
- Stepping out on the temporary balcony will scare the living daylights out of a spectator, and that is apparently the "work of art" here.
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1. Yes. But there apparently is no actual work of art here, but rather an "event" or "environment." In fact, the work is even portrayed as a kind of "residence" for the artists who created it. Stepping out on the temporary balcony will scare the living daylights out of a spectator, and that is apparently the "work of art" here.
2. Yes. This "condition" of the spectator, extreme fear
2. Yes. This "condition" of the spectator, extreme fear
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