Participatory Art
Over the last decade of creating interactive healing installation at ArtPrize, I have discovered that the audience reaction to the artwork often ends up being different from what I imagined. The visitors somehow end up creating their own unique response to the work.
For ArtPrize 2013, we created four thousand origami birds and prepared 20,000 vellum cards for the growing response to our participatory work. Then, with only two days left of ArtPrize, almost all 20,000 note cards had been hung on the wall. I knew that by evening, we would run out of cards. When I returned the next morning, I was astonished.
Fifty of my business cards clung to the wall. As I stepped closer, I noticed that people had continued to write prayers, punched holes in them, and then hung them. The ArtPrize visitors’ desire to participate in the creative process couldn’t be stopped. A generative opportunity was birthed by the visitors; the artwork moved them to create their own pathway to healing—their own pathway towards human flourishing.
In this video, though this particular art project is on a much smaller scale, the spontaneous and unique response is similar—which leads to another discovery: Cats love art, too!
Enjoy!
What is one thing you can do to foster creativity with others? (be it human or be it cat)? Share your story #TheCat
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