INTERACTIVE
SPACE PUBLISHED IN “LE MONDE” NEWSPAPER AND LIVE PERFORMANCE
ON FRENCH NATIONAL TELEVISION, CHANNEL 2
JANUARY 1972
The
passive environments maintained by unilateral media are turned into
interactive spaces through the introduction of “parasitical”
elements by the artist. The experiment began with a work called
“150cm2 of Newspaper”—a small blank square appearing
in “Le Monde” that readers were invited to fill with
their own artwork and send to the artist for inclusion in a subsequent
public exhibition. This was followed 10 days later by the artist’s
appearance on the midday news on national television to ask viewers
to observe a moment of silence designed to help them make sense
of their lives. Both experiments were later repeated in newspapers
and on radio in television in locations ranging from Belgium to
Brazil.