Introduction to Participation

This introduction shows how art is viewed by Bishop, to be open for anyone and everyone to be the artist and at the same time the viewer. This is much different to how most people know art. Where one person is known for being the artist and other spectators are known as the viewers and consumers. Here Bishop wants people so see that when they are the viewers of art they can also form time to time be part of the art itself. Such as how he supports the work of Walter Benjamin. Walter states that an artist should "proved a model for the viewers so they can be involved with the process of production". Not only does this leave the viewers as artist themselves, it also leaves the art available for many different interpretations. Many different interpretations of one piece of art is why some people see the same piece of art as utterly distinctive. An example of this is when a person sees a painting and to them it looks like the artist was blind and just made a mess on the canvas, but to another person, through their eyes, it could be the most compelling and moving piece of art work they had ever seen. For that specific reason, art is unique and spectacular.