Inside the White Cube

"Classic avant-garde hostility expresses itself through physical discomfort (radical theater), excessive noise (music), or by removing perceptual constants (the gallery space). Common to all are trangressions of logic, dissociation of the senses, and boredom. In these arenas order (the audience) assays what quotos of disorder it can stand. Such places are, then, metaphors for consciousness and revolution. The spectator is invited into a space where the act of approach is turned back on itself. Perhaps a perfect avant-garde act would be to invite an audience and shoot it." Brian O'Doherty, Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986), 76.