Sentences with phrase «viewer as an active agent»

Consequently requiring one to turn the lighting back on — resetting and restarting the piece unwittingly — the work inventively eschews the conventional relationship between work and viewer in favor of the viewer as an active agent, a primary and entirely necessary component of the work itself.

In all his works — including billboards, stacked prints, text installations, jigsaw puzzle photographs, strings of light, and found objects — Gonzalez - Torres wished to include the viewer as an active agent in producing the work's meaning.