Soundscape Project

SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT

Why does art have no limits? And how has it become limitless?

John Cage says, "When our time was given to physical labor, we needed a stiff upper lip and backbone. Now that we're changing our minds, intent on things invisible, inaudible, we have other spineless virtues: flexibility, fluency. Dreams, daily events, everything gets to and through us....Art conforms to no rules."
Today our labors are more mental and less physical. Many people today do not spend their days laboring in fields, but working in offices brainstorming, dreaming, inventing and strategising. We are encouraged to dream big, to be "flexible" and "well-rounded". We are taught to push boundaries and to go beyond the ordinary; so why wouldn't we carry these same principles over to the art world. We are taught life has no limits, so why would art have limits either. So why can't an audience become the artist, and why can't the artist become the audience? I believe there are no limits to art. I believe that the idea of limitless art has come from our cultural experiences and the way we are encouraged by society to push limits in order to reach a higher level of success.