2005/12/18

Yokohama Triennale

Don't read anything about that on wired.com.

By the way, it was the last day of the exhibition and I went to see it.At 17:00, the director of the Triennale and himself an artist, Tadashi Kawamata began talking, together with Tazro Niscino, who modifies public statues into private spaces by wrapping them with a room with hotel-like interiors. About 17:15 appeared Yoshitomo Nara (at last, for most of artimanie-groupies there). They said art may or may not change the world, but that depends on the audience.

What is an art? I have no idea, but an allegory: pictures in a classical museum are like animals in a zoo and audiences are spectators. In recent art exhibitions, like this time, artists are trainers of a circus. Audiences? they are animals dancing on artists' balls. But to speak out, audiences themselves want to be trainers-artists.

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