7. TRIAD Meeting

Today we talked in our groups about our article progress and what we plan on doing with it. We also helped each other figure out some good interview questions in order to strengthen our articles. One idea they had for me was to talk to people specifically about why they think certain art is controversial. They also suggested I talk to NSP students and teachers about controversy a whole and where they see it the most. Some questions I came up with are:

• What does art controversy mean to you?
• What was your first reaction to the artwork?
• Why did you think you had the reaction you did?
• Does your opinion about the artwork change the longer you look at it and why? 
• How can you can connect the artwork to your own life?
• How might your interpretation of this artwork be different from someone in another culture.

I also want to talk about the subject as a whole instead of just picking a specific work of art and talking to people about it. I might bring up one specific piece but only to strengthen the overall idea. I am contemplating mentioning past, well-known, controversial art works that could possibly strengthen where I want to go with the article and saying why they were so controversial. I have also come up with some questions overall for art controversy that I think would be a good idea to ask the people I will be interviewing.

• Who decides what is acceptable art?
• Why art can be dangerous or offensive?
• Why and how does once-controversial art become accepted, such as Duchamp’s “Fountain”?
• How can art challenge or change a society?
• Why are new art forms often controversial? 
• How do politics, economics, religion, gender, and/or culture help ignite controversy over a work of art?

I am also debating whether or not to mention graffiti/street art in my article. If I do, these are some questions I would bring up.

• Is graffiti art?
• Has graffiti succeeded in attaining a unique position in the institutionalized contemporary art world? 
• What would the world be like without graffiti or street art?

As of right now, I am working on finding people that are willing to do some short interviews with me for me to quote in my article.

Copyright 2018, Claude van Lingen