Mimwon Kwon:
A lot of what is said about site-specific art makes sense to me. I believe, having done street art before, that the placement and the environment in which a piece of art is placed/done is just as important as the art itself, and essentially becomes a part of the art. The democracy of a space, however, is another entirely different matter. I feel that in terms of public space and common property, the property that is not owned by one specific person should be deemed pubic property and should be treated as such. This is why I don't understand the extreme presence of police officers at property that people don't own and change it. I think public art in these cases challenged these borderlines and what it means to really be public property.
Critical Vehicles:
I do relate a lot of what Krzysztof Wodiczko points to in his article, mainly the points concerning the foreign nature of aliens and the ways in which they have a pretense as to how natives should treat them in conjunction with the natives, who have a pretense as to how the foreigners should behave. I feel this way about our projects on Lancaster, which basically make us, the students, into the aliens and the residents into the natives. Not only do we misrepresent the other, we also expect the other to behave in ways that it naturally wouldn't, which creates and perpetuates this divide between the Lancaster neighborhood residents and us.
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