RESEARCH: rationale behind presentation method

this post is underconstruction

(image source:  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87,_The_Artist_is_Present,_2010_(2).jpg )

Post discussion in week 11:
The dilema of this project is that my work is interactive and site specific, but it also needs to be presented for university assessment. So I must decide wether the work presented is a record of the artwork OR an artwork itself. Not both. To better explain this, taking photos or video of the work and people interacting with it is a document of the work. Where as providing a virtual reality experience of the work is an artwork in itself. And changes the experience and meaning of the work.

in first semester i presented what I understood as the record of the artwork as an artwork. The work was a VR experience .

think about 'the artist is present' ,what is the artwork:

• the video of the participants
• the active participation
• the stills of the participation
• the record of the emotional reaction of the participants

in the documentary titled 'the artist is present' the artist and her publicist deemed that the artworks were the performance, but the recording process of the performance was what most people would experience and limited edition prints of the works were (money) what most galleries and collectors wanted.