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That's an odd and perhaps arbitrary distinction, its primary interest, I think, lies in all that for which it fails to account.
Is performance a time-based medium? Watching a play, or a ballet, or hearing a band or an orchestra play—these are artistic experiences that unfold in time—rather than in space, as with a physical art object like a painting or a sculpture.
How about recorded music? That's time-based, but not tied to any particular time that the composer can control: the context, and even the duration of the music, are at the listener's control. There's a physical (spatial) mediating object involved—a CD, a radio, an iPod—but the object itself is largely irrelevant and almost infinitely variable.
What about literature? The act of reading plays out over time—but again, that time will vary from reader to reader. And, as with music, there's a mediating object, but the object is not the experience—the map is not the territory—On The Road is On The Road whether you read it in a cheap paperback reissue, a gilt-edged hardcover, or a pirated .txt file on the screen of a mobile phone. |
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