Colin Liddell: The theme of involvement threatens to blur the distinction between artist and audience. Indeed, I was sometimes unsure who the artists and who the audience were. The more the audience participates, the more they are the artist.A big part of art's appeal is the pseudo-religious idea of the sacredness or specialness of the artist. Doesn't your concept of the "Art Circus and its spectator involvement threaten this proscenium barrier?
Tadashi Kawamata: I think having no boundary between the artists and the audience should not be a problem. For this triennale, the artists also participate in other artists' work as well as the audience. I think the word "artist" should not be treated as a certain status. The artists are also an audience.
Colin Liddell: With a theme of involvement, it was odd that visitors were not allowed to photograph their involvement, as this would be an ideal way of involving them. Is this restriction because artists don't want their works to be photographed? Doesn't this create a barrier between artist and audience?
Tadashi Kawamata: For this current situation, I personally think taking photographs with the mobile phone has a different meaning from taking photographs with an ordinary camera. People get more familiar to taking photographs. It becomes far more difficult to control the use of cameras. We inform "no photographs" at the entrance, when they buy tickets, as well as at the information board, but we would like to leave it to each individuals' common sense.
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