In \u201cThe Exhibitionary Complex,\u201d Tony Bennett discusses two opposing views\u00a0when exhibiting museum art and artifacts: the\u00a0Carceral Archipelago, and the Exhibitionary Complex. These two opinions interpret both the public gaze and the display of art in different ways–the former seeing it as a form of incarceration,\u00a0and the latter\u00a0seeing it as\u00a0way to educate the public through such artifacts. The articles surmises that through self-monitoring,\u00a0museums acts as an exhibition which seeks\u00a0to educate and inform normal everyday people by directly integrating them into it.<\/p>\n
I had somewhat of a difficult time trying to draw an example I’ve personally\u00a0experienced, but one of the first things that came to my mind was Projection LA–a public art piece here in Silverlake on Sunset Boulevard, which I’m sure everyone has seen on their social media feeds at one point or another. This article<\/a> I found best describes the scene surrounding the whitewashed motel.<\/p>\n As you walk the western edge of the trendy hamlet of Silver Lake on the city\u2019s storied Sunset Boulevard, it\u2019s the palms you see first, as the monotone piece slowly emerges from the contextual beige of strip mall stucco. Actually, first you\u2019ll see dozens of people standing precariously in the middle of four lanes of traffic to Instagram the piece,<\/strong> which is about as social-media ready<\/a> as a public art piece could possibly be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I feel that the first\u00a0half of the\u00a0description relates to Bennett’s Exhibitionary Complex because the art that is being showcased is not imprisoned or incarcerated, but is rather extremely accessible to the public, and therefore allowing the “common man” to partake in an experience that is normally thought to be that of higher-class or wealthier populations. Furthermore, the second half of this excerpt takes this exhibition from public to… I guess “super public” through social media, thereby expanding the reach of this art piece even further to populations that would normally not partake in such an experience.<\/p>\n That being said, it’s definitely evident that more and more museums are taking advantage of the Exhibitionary Complex–take for example, The Broad, LACMA’s Urban Light, etc.–by exposure to and incorporation of\u00a0everyday people. It’s a trend that is fueled by today’s\u00a0digital\u00a0media, and although I love the concept\u00a0of increasing art’s accessibility, I wonder if all this is just that–a trend–and how long will it last?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In \u201cThe Exhibitionary Complex,\u201d Tony Bennett discusses two opposing views\u00a0when exhibiting museum art and artifacts: the\u00a0Carceral Archipelago, and the Exhibitionary Complex. These two opinions interpret both the public gaze and … Continue reading “Week Two: The Exhibitionary Complex in LA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh150w16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}