discussion with Alan Mahar

As I wrote on a previous post I showed my work and discussed with Alan Mahar on the 10th of May.
I chose to ask him for feedback since he is an artist and a very good teacher and also because he is not a visual artist that means that he can see the work more clearly, from a relative distance and his comments will be only about what he sees in my work and will not be influenced by his own personal artistic obsessions ( a common problem when you ask feedback from an artist using the same medium)
Our meeting was 1 hour long and I recorded it in order to have the time to study the details of his suggestions.
I wanted to see:
*how he would react on the silence (the lack of sound) -- he wasn't disturbed by it and he thought in silence it is easier to concentrate on and be driven by the visuals and that with music the impact would be lighter
*what he would think about the idea of the triptych -- and his first question was why I chose to have them in triptychs --
*what connections he would see between the videos in each triptych and also between the two triptychs -- the main concept that he found connecting the 6 videos was the concept of movement
*for how long he could stay watching the videos before wanting to speak- he stayed watching for a long time and I started first to speak, this showed me in a way that what he was seeing interested him and also that I will have to seriously consider to put seats across the projections
*before starting the projection he asked me what is the work about and I told him that he would have to answer that (I did it because I didn't want to influence his thoughts and comments)

The discussion helped me to decide:
-on the name of the installation
-that I don't want to provide viewers with a text on what is the work about ( since when they don't have a given text they become more active viewers and they find their own way to relate with the work)
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