As a general art form that has attempted to restore the absolute relationship between works of art, audiences and artists who have been separated in traditionally, in which life and art have been distinguished, one can think of 'installation art' that...
As a general art form that has attempted to restore the absolute relationship between works of art, audiences and artists who have been separated in traditionally, in which life and art have been distinguished, one can think of 'installation art' that designates an exhibition method to construct the given entire space as one of the representative modern works of art. It has been a tendency in modern art, a reflection of new spirits and a new formative expression, and it has narrowed the gap between art and daily life and raised the aesthetic values of a spatial scope and expanded the concept of genre in art by the harmony of human beings, art and environment and the new recognition in space.
Along with this installation art, the avant-garde atmosphere in the 1970s that rejected the commercialization of art has let artists search for the possibility of conceptual and irreproducible works and put more emphasis on concept than form. Therefore, through the reinterpretation on the meaning of space in the installation art via conceptual artistic approach, artists have started off to ask a question for the origin of installation art in modern art and have focused on the space as a place of conscious communication through the expansion of cognizance. The mutual interaction in installation art has been acquired by audiences' mutual response to the works through the process of their affecting the form and content of media environments.
Today's mutual interaction does not confine the role of audiences as those who appreciate works of art passively, but let them participate actively in the process of creating works of art. The efforts to think of the role of audiences as differently from before and to make new possibilities form a point of new dimension where art and human beings (that is, audiences) join and they create a 4-dimensional space in installation art.
Namely, installation art exists not only as thought and concept, but also it has to exist for the communication with people who enjoy the meaning of life. In this process, the reinterpretation of space through conceptual artistic approach is meaningful, by leading the relationship between audiences and works to a place of more active and maximized communication and by expanding the experiences of the said relationship into a two-way direction that is connected with the satisfaction of communication. In order for works and audiences to communicate mutually, it is necessary to expand the places of communication more actively and to utilize various expression media such as language, photos, media and so on to let them 'experience' works from a broad perspective; meanwhile, art and art works that penetrate the outside of gallery centers or people's actual lives as an expansive meaning of space result in coming also into the urban environment and public space.
The scope of such mutual interaction does not simply remain in the primary relationship between audiences and works, or between artists and audiences, but expands to the true communication with the world as well as the quest for inner self, others and society. Besides, by actively accepting the subsequent cultural changes and phenomena, it suggests a new change in terms of the future artistic concept, artists' creation and activity methods. Therefore, mutual interaction will be developed as a process of thought that makes us to think what effects it will have on our lives and culture beyond experiences and will become a place of communication that we truly desire.