Not everything is always in our hands. Unwanted events happen all the time no matter how hard we try to make things go perfect. But is it a bad thing when it comes to art work?
When everything is on the point without any blemishes it can lose its color, its unpredactibility. When audience make breathing noises or start sniffling they give their own presence into act, they give life and they bring their own experience into the viewing of your piece ,making it something new, something which wasn’t intended from the beginning. They will all be able to hear something else and go through this experience in completely new way.
John Cage in his work called “4’33” created space for silence, room for the audience to bring piece of themself and therefore be part of this art work. This three movement composition can be presented with any instrument or instruments but they are only background to the sounds of the environment which creates the real creation. Not everything is about what we can see or hear. Sometimes what is more important is what we feel, imagine in our head or simply us. Different personalities, different experiences create tones of alternative ways of perception. People can look at the same exact monument, can hear the same piece of the sound ,but who they are inside and what they bring with them to experience this art work, will make them perceiving it in completely distinctive ways.
So putting on others specific way of reception or understanding our art work, is really what we want to achieve?
based on “4’33” by John Cage