In my opinion, art outside of conventional institutions in something really exciting. It begins to have other elements that become a work of art itself. For example, mentioned earlier in my blog, the Liverpool 2010 Biennial used Rapid, a disused store in the city centre as its base, as well as to hold many works. I became interested in this different approach and radical thinking about how to display artworks such as in the stores windows, a space we are used to seeing retail items. By doing this I feel it engages better with the public, as people who may not be interested in viewing art in its conventional settings, such as galleries and museums, are now forced to either engage or notice art.
Raphaelle de Groot is a Canadian artist, who explores working outside of the institution. For 8x 5x 363 +1 (2002- 2006) de Groot took up residence in a textile factory in Biella, Italy. Rapaelle found that trying to hold and sustain a conversation with the workers in the loud and busy factory was almost impossible. She initially explored the idea of using boxes, in which she would ask the factory workers a question and they were to answer through posting their response through the box. She eventually replaced the system with disposable cameras, again she would write a question on the camera, although this time the workers were to respond by answering the question with a photograph. I really love this idea of the responses being photographic representations as to what the artist had asked, and the idea that each response would be different.
Manifesta, is a multi-faceted organisation that holds Biennials.
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