Stacia Hitt

This past week protesters occupying Wall Street were seen creating signs through a collective art forum brought together by a topic of interest. Not being able to use application devices for speech these protestors had one person speaking and then the rest of the group reciting what the speaker had just said in union. The protesters artist or not were experiencing, reporting, analyzing and acting on there instincts of the message that they want to convey.
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While reading Suzanne Lacy’s Debated Territoy: Toward a Critical Language for Public Art one line stuck out to me in particular “the artist becomes a conduit for the experience of others, and the work a metaphor for relationship.” As artist I feel a grave responsibility for recounting a story in a way that is new for that relationship with the artist. I am a detective giving information and how that information is viewed becomes a way for expressing between the artist and the public. Like these protestors there goal is to not change Wall Street over night but rather in peaceful way start recognition and this is their outlet. There are many articles that talk about there mission being unorganized and not having a conclusion and for them maybe it doesn’t but as part of their idea they are trying to instill some type of message and how that is perceived relies on the public. “Private experience has lost an authenticity in the public sector that art may at least symbolically return to us. To make oneself a conduit for expression of a whole social group can be an act of profound empathy.” In this case of Wall Street they are seeking change and it’s a collaborative process with the public to pursued and seduce citizens to become activists in their communities.