outside of traditional art institutions

So if the dialogue is the process and medium, that means that there will be no end product? Sometimes the dialogue results in other works being produced such as film installations, public art projects and performances. Documented evidence may be displayed in exhibitions back in a typical art institution. In the previously mentioned work by Lacy “The Roof is on Fire” it was presented as a media event. Other works are more ephemeral, once the first hand exchange is over, the work is finished (other than if it is retold or written about). For example a project by Carsten Holler called “The Boudouin Experiment: A Deliberate, Non Fatalistic, Large Scale Group Experiment in Deviation 2001”[1](fig 2). Holler got a group of people together in Brussels and asked them to abandon their usual daily routine for one working day. A remembrance of the day that Kind Baudouin of Belgium took leave of his duties to let an abortion law be passed that he didn’t agree with. The huge ‘social action was not recorded. Without documentation of such an anonymous project, would we believe that the piece ever really existed?’[2] A contradiction in its own right because the project was obviously recorded on paper otherwise we wouldn’t be talking about it. Visual documentation such as photographs and film are often employed by this style of project to create a greater impact and to get their ideas to reach a larger audience than just the first hand participants or viewers.
[1] Edited by Claire Bishop ‘Participation’ 2006
[2] Bishop, Claire. The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents. Art Forum
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