Week Two: Aesthetic Evangelists

1.) Artists should make sure that the communities values are being represented when it's a community art piece.  Not to use a community for their own benefit like Alfredo Jaar tried to do with the Bangladeshi women.  He tried to use their pictures and put discriminating text captioning them in his gallery.  If the Bangladeshi women hadn't spoken out against it, people could have led to believe false information about the Bangladeshi women and what they stand for. If an artist is going to make a community art piece, the art should have the communities interests and beliefs within the piece.

2.) Artists should be in the right frame of mind before starting a project that affects a community.  Make sure they realize what kind of consequences could come about if they were to involve other people into their piece.  Think through the outcomes that they know are going to happen and ones that are possibilities if people aren't pleased with what the artist has created.  Mainly to just be aware of what's important and that they are not just making the art for their own benefit but there is a very real purpose and good intention for the art to be made.

3.)  Politically what kind of harm could be made by the artists work.  Could they be stepping down an ethical path that they really have no reason to do so.  But then again if done correctly it can change someones perspective on political issues and actually benefit society.  It's a very touchy subject meaning if an artist is to try and make a political statement it should be carefully thought out and well executed or it could have major repercussions.

4.)  Art shouldn't have to have high publicity in order to be recognized as art. Art can be seen everywhere and should be made for the smallest of crowds or even for oneself.  Just because an art piece is seen by the majority does not make it a more powerful statement than an art piece that can change a few's perspective.