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Without You I'm Nothing: Art and Its Audience
Tuesday April 5, 2011 from 10:00am - 8:00pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60611 Get Directions
In past decades, artists have increasingly engaged the presence of the audience in the conception, production, and presentation of their work. 'Without You I'm Nothing' comprises works drawn from the MCA's Collection that demonstrate a cultural shift towards a greater engagement for the individual. Beginning in the 1960s, artists such as Carl Andre and Richard Serra used industrial materials to create sculptures that left behind the traditional pedestal to enter the "real" space of the viewer, producing a new understanding of how work could be experienced. This engagement of the viewer was extended in a more performative way in the 1970s with the work of Dennis Oppenheim -- whose figurative sculptures are often triggered to move based on the movements of the audience -- and Michelangelo Pistoletto, whose mirrored works combine figurative renderings with the viewer's reflected image. Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, and Bruce Nauman also emerged during the 1960s and 1970s with work that frequently required the direct participation of the viewer to complete them. Their work had a profound influence on artists who came to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s such as Liam Gillick, Gabriel Orozco, Dan Peterman, and Andrea Zittel, whose multidimensional work invoked the interaction of the audience to reflect the manner in which architecture and internet technology have encouraged a more networked social sphere. Complementing the objects on display, a program of 6 performance-based works are presented in the galleries over the course of the exhibition, further emphasizing the critical importance of interactivity and the physical relationship of the viewer to the experience of contemporary art.

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