Trivia I have been thinking about this week is:
Is Add-art a public performance free for any passers-by to see while they go about their daily business? Or is it a Gallery that you have to know about and actively choose to visit?
If the latter; what about colleagues, family, other coffeshop customers, and pretty much anyone who might look over your shoulder? is it a public performance for them?
I'd love to know what others think, and especially how the curators view this. Would you argue that by installing add-art we have entered your gallery?
For instance; might you put really challenging images on it? I have no idea how you might define explicit? Nudity? Death? Disfiguration? Desecration? Graven Idols?
I wouldn't object(*) and my boss would probably ask 'whats that?' and be interested in the response. But in other places they might say 'you're fired, perv.' or 'Security, grab them, I'll call the police.'
Or is it a mute question since you'd never go down such a route?
EZ.
(*) I live in Amsterdam, nudity etc. is no big deal here; but religious and racial offence can be. Mind you, anyone in my local Coffeeshop (think about it) who might be offended by nudity etc.. will probably have been pre-offended by the other activities taking place ;-)