Act/React Encounter

This afternoon I went to the Act/React Exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum to utilize the resident discount on Wednesdays. I did not have the best mentality coming into the Act/React exhibition, but I was converted after I had finally entered the exhibition.
The first one I noticed myself investigating was Brian Knep's floor installation Healing #1. I started just walking around on it, it was much larger than it appeared on the preview screening that John MacKinnon showed in our class. I was going to just breeze through this one and move on to the rest of the exhibit, but I found I was trying to alter it for nearly 10 minutes. It really isn't all this that dense, like the ones done by Camille Utterback further into the exhibit, but for me I enjoy the simplicity of understanding the cause-effect relationship that I have when I am altering the piece.
My favorite one was the Snow Mirror by Daniel Rozin. You have to walk into this completely blacked out room and when I got in there I found that the tranquility of this room was the most comfortable piece for me to function with. I enjoyed trying to see close-ups and farther away and i even messed around with what my cell phone looked like.
What I found interesting was observing these little kids running around the exhibition when I got out of the Snow Mirror. I saw that they were interested in the same one, they were loving running all over Brian Knep's piece. They also tried Camille Utterback's work while I was roaming around, and I saw that the 4 kids along with their mother were able to make a much more dynamic piece from Untitled 6 than I was able to do alone. I feel that so much of the work that I saw today would be better experienced with others because when there are more people working within the pieces collaboratively the results are much more dynamic than what you can achieve doing these alone. But it seems the ones that I was most interested in were the ones that you could get the similar results from if you were alone or with a group, or maybe they were even better alone than they would be in a group.