Response to Installation Art by Missy Ramsey

Installation art is based more on a system.  The artist art work is by filling the space with what they have, filled edge to edge with so much stuff.  "Essentially, installation art takes into account the viewer’s entire sensory experience, rather than floating framed points of focus on a “neutral” wall or displaying isolated objects (literally) on a pedestal. This leaves space and time as its only dimensional constants. This implies dissolution of the line between art and life; Kaprow noted that “if we bypass ‘art’ and take nature itself as a model or point of departure, we may be able to devise a different kind of art… out of the sensory stuff of ordinary life” (Kaprow 12)." (wiki.com)
The way in which installation art insists upon the viewer’s presence in a space has necessarily led to a number of problems about how it is remembered. You have to make big imaginative leaps if you haven’t actually experienced the work first hand. Like a joke that fails to be funny when repeated, you had to be there.  I really enjoy installation art, because I thnk that it challentges the artist  to be able to go beyond what they are used to (canvas) and broadent what they can do into a large amount of space.  Installation art also allows the audience to have their personal experience, like the feeling "you just had to be there."  Its a feeling that you can't explaink, but try to allow the other people to have the same feeling, but can't unless they get to go.