Siendo espectador <br/>I. La experiencia del expectador como forma de participación no reglada

Abstract

The ideas that pumps out of the contemporary artistic practice make us clear that there is no art making without its exhibition and also no authors exists when there are no viewers. At this point participation, with no aim, limit or structure, that is not regulated, can question, exchange or boost the roles of the artist and the viewer in order give form to space and time transforming it into sculptural artifacts. Installations are inviting the viewer to take part in its inner space of creation. Propositions in order to uncover dialogue and movement are waiting for any response; meanwhile their authors stop being artists in order to turn into viewers in search of the public. And constructed situations bring to life any sign of relations by activating diverse conditions, which are proposed to users-viewers. If art does not reside in the object, then it resides in the symbolic use of it, inside the eye of the viewer and in whatever this viewer decides to do with this object. The oeuvres listed in the text use time not only as duration but also as forms of different constrains during which, sculpture proposes a space in order to play within a context. Playing is a form of a personal and collective experience at once, immersed in a perpetual negotiation.