{"id":249,"date":"2010-01-18T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=249"},"modified":"2010-01-18T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:45:29","slug":"if_anyone_can_make_art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/01\/if_anyone_can_make_art\/","title":{"rendered":"If *Anyone* Can Make Art…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hold.jpg\"We dropped by Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum on Saturday night to catch the opening of Participation Nation<\/i><\/a>, an exhibition focused on projects that nudge viewers out of their passive role as mere observers and invite them to actually contribute to the art on display. I wasn’t in the door three seconds when what to my wondering eyes did I spy but a project honoring the work of Maryanne Amacher,<\/a> courtesy the friendly folks at Neighborhood Public Radio. <\/p>\n

Even if you are not lucky enough to live in Baltimore, you can join in the fun. According to NPR:<\/p>\n

\nAs part of the Baltimore Contemporary Museum’s PROJECT 20 series, celebrating their 20th Anniversary, Neighborhood Public Radio will host a coast-to-coast audio-project for broadcast.<\/p>\n

In homage to sound pioneer Maryanne Amacher, who died in October, NPR will re-imagine her seminal radio-locative sound project CITY LINKS (1967) as a community remix project to be aired locally in Baltimore, and streamed to Portable Radio Instruments for broadcast in San Diego, Chicago, and Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

Broadcasts will occur every Sunday night at 9pm (EST).<\/b><\/p>\n

We will collect these recordings every week and remix and process them for broadcast. We will also post the files on our website, inviting anyone to remix and reuse the recordings.<\/b><\/p>\n

If you remix these sounds, send them to: nprphoneup@gmail.com and we’ll put them on the air. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve had some conversations lately with creators in which they lamented an observed trend towards increasing self-involvement among their audience–a fear of the “my opinion should count because I can Twitter it” critical leveling on display of late. Wouldn’t this mark the beginning of the end for great artistic expression? Wouldn’t quality be washed out with tsunami force when anyone, regardless of expertise, could participate? <\/p>\n

I thought about this as I walked through the exhibitions, particularly one room in which participants had created shrines inside plain wooden boxes. Whether the individual behind each box was honoring a lost loved one or an abandoned vice, the quiet, personal works were remarkably affecting. If this show is an example of what comes when more members of a community are invited to take a creative role, we have little to fear and much to learn from our neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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