- The audience is part of the work as they have to use their bodies to create art. This would allow the audience to take part in the creation of the art piece with the guidance of the artist. 

Interpret
This artwork focuses on the migration crisis and how the heat of people’s body would represent the ‘invisibility’ of the immigrants. Even though immigrants are there, their presence fades in the eyes of the locals and citizens because they ‘do not belong there’.

Untitled (Free/Still) by Rikrit Tiravanija is relational art, connecting the artist, audience, and the objects within the artwork itself. 

It is set within an empty exhibition space in a gallery, transformed into a temporary kitchen. He used wooden crates, boxes, tables and chairs to furnish the space. The artist was present throughout the exhibition period, personally cooking and serving Thai vegetable curry and rice to visitors for free. Visitors could then sit down at the tables and chairs provided within the space to eat and talk to new people. The artwork encourages the audience to interact with him by receiving free food that he personally cooked and with each other through holding conversations while eating.

The exhibition space is furnished with similar wooden furnitures such as chairs, tables, and empty crates, giving the work a monochromatic and minimalistic look. The room is also sufficiently lit, with the wooden furniture being relatively light in colour as well, providing a comfortable and lighthearted atmosphere for the audience. The artwork contains rhythm, being the continuous routine of the artist cooking, then serving the audience, and the audience then going to eat. There is also unity between the artist and audience, in their interactions and actions, in how they all harmoniously eat and talk together.

Interpretation:

This artwork is about the idea of food - both anthropological and archeological. The layers of taste, relationships, and interactions. It involves a lot of experiential relationships - interacting with others and being part of and contributing to the creation of an artwork. 

This artwork falls under the art genre of relational/performance art. It involves the artist and the audience, encouraging them to interact and create the artwork and its meaning with their bodies. 

The resultant artwork of the audience’s interaction is shown on a black floor, and has white, ghostly “afterimages” in the shape of human bodies. These “afterimages” are somewhat neatly arranged within a squarish shape. It is created with thermochromic ink which reacts to the body heat - the artist and the audience lie down flat on the ground to create the desired artwork. 

Analysis: 
The space where the artwork is contained on is wide and open, where many people can freely come to interact with it. Value, when the heat makes the floor turn from black to white.

The stark contrast between the white imprints of the human bodies and the black floor they are imprinted on creates clear images that can be easily seen by other passerbys. Although the shape of each human body imprint varies a little, they are all repeated in neat rows on the floor, creating a squarish block.

Interpretation: 
The combined, collective energy of the participants creates the artwork and gives it meaning. The concept of this artwork is to show how people are “clinging on to their nationalism” and is trying to show how people must “work together to solve society’s problems”.  

The audience experiences the work by being part of its creation, and viewing the result that they contributed to, and interacting with it, each other, and the artist herself. 

The audience is invited to a lounge area where they are provided with food(rice and curry) that the artist made. They can sit down on the chairs provided and talk while eating. 

The work is an interactive work.

The art object is the food, and the artist and audience both interact with the art object. 

The walls are made of wooden beams that connect to form cubical see-through frames to create a sense of spaciousness. This creates an open area where the audience feels more invited. It allows people to feel open to connect with one another. The space is also very well lit, creating a bright and cheery atmosphere. 

The artwork is the audience’s act of eating the curry and rice while talking to each other, and can only be experienced in real time. No two experiences of the artwork will be the same. 

Emphasis is placed on the food where people gather to queue for. It is also object which can initiate conversation and is also the focus of the work.

In this piece, the audience called to action to work together and achieve the goal of revealing the portrait. The portrait under the floor is eventually revealed to be a portrait of a Syrian migrant named Yusef, showing the true theme of migration in the piece. The setup of this installation is designed to make the viewers uncomfortable with its eerie bass soundtrack and the use of black on the floor. The artist also uses the impossibility of revealing the whole piece even if they work together to invoke a helpless feeling in the audience, demonstrating a fraction of the despair migrants feel.

ANALYSE:
The artwork is for people to interact and talk with each other. artist + audience interaction.

The artist believed that through food, people are able to open up more as there is comfort in it. The artwork consists of the people. The artist aims to bridge the distance between the viewer and the artist.  The audience and the artist come together in a common space to interact

INTERACT:
This artwork focuses on the aspects of communication between artist and viewer. The interaction between people may build connections or friendships. The artist and the viewers plays a part in the artwork and shows life and the communal way of communication. The artwork encourages bonding and a sense of community. 

The artist invites a group of people to lay on the floor. This floor has thermochromic ink to detect the body heat of the participants and in turn leaves a white mark on the floor where body heat is detected. 

This is an interactive work.

The art object is the floor and both the audience and the artist interact with the art object, creating the artwork.

The installation is in an wide open room, with the artwork near the middle. This provides emphasis on the work in the middle

The black flooring contrasts with the white imprint left by the audience. This draws attention to the imprints. 

-  The setting, 303 Gallery, has a warm tone to it. 
-  multiple tables and stools that populated the empty spaces. 
- a long table in the front, which had pressure cookers filled with rice and curry separately. 
- stacks of disposable utensils and bowls

- The audience is invited to dine within the space and socialise with other audience members over food, they would receive a bowl of rice and curry from the servers stationed at the long table
- audience would sit down with people who might be strangers and interact with each other. 
- This interaction would ultimately form the artwork that the artist has created by providing that space and resource. 

ANALYSIS:
- EOA :

POA :

INTERPRET:
- He was interested in exploring the possibility of creating like-minded social spaces in places usually reserved for the quiet contemplation of art, concepts of which could contrast each other in their essence.

- He worked on the idea of food, but in a kind of anthropological and archeological way. It was a lot about, the layers of, taste and, otherness.

- The work is mainly a platform for, people to connect with the work itself, but also with one another. It also about a kind of experiential relationship, so you actually are not really looking at something, but you are within it, you are part of it. The distance between the artist and the art and the audience gets a bit blurred.

Was it fulfilled?
- The intention of bring people together was conveyed through unity, where the objective of connecting people through sitting together and having conversations. 

- The hues in the room also formed a nice atmosphere to bring people together, encouraging more audience members to interact more due to the cozy atmosphere.

Kinda look like dead bodies

Leaves an impression on the floor

A ghost of people’s presence

It's a reflection on the times we live on, where it seems it's necessary that everybody works together even if they don't believe in the same issues, even if they have different political agendas, even if they are unknown to each other

https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/10/02/artist-bruguera-tackles-global-migrant-row-at-tate-modern.html 

The work is meant to be a space for the audience to interact with other people as well as give them a chance to be part of the work in real time. 

The artist meant for the work to be a platform for people to interact with the work itself but also with other people. He also wanted to put emphasis on the experiential relationship between the audience and the work. He wanted the audience to be able to view the work, but be a part of it as well. As a result, the distance between the artist, the work and the audience gets a bit blurred. 

Repetition (of Men/people) - The repetition of the people, who is also the audience, walking in and out of the space help to emphasise how they are also part of the artwork. The emphasis of the viewers create a unique work.

Interpretation 
The work bridges the distance between the artist and the viewer. The viewer is part of the artwork and creates the art aspect as they consume the Thai vegetable curry and interact with other people, possibly making new friends or acquaintances. The work spurs social interaction and ignites a form of commonality.

The artwork is made out of the people who join and interact with the artwork. The title of the artwork is the number of people who migrated from one country to another last year added to the number of migrant deaths recorded so far. When people lie on the floor, thermochromic ink would allow them to leave a white print due to their body heat. There is a portrait under the thermochromic flooring and thus it requires a large amount of people to lie on it at the same time in order to reveal the portrait.

Space and Emphasis - The artwork is an installation in a large space/room. The simplicity and emptiness of that space causes the viewer to focus on the artwork. The white imprint contrasts against the plain black flooring, further highlighting it. 

Colour - The overall colour of the artworks is darker in colour (black) as black is a better conductor of heat and this would enhance the speed of the artwork. 

The artwork is a response to a migration crisis. The culmination of people in the artwork show the mass amount of people who migrated last year. The collaborated effort of the people would reveal a giant portrait under the black thermal paint commending the audience’s performance and effort.

In my opinion I feel that the work demonstrates a great amount of contrast. The concept behind the work if very superficial and to me that's quite unappealing. However, the contrast was what really caught my eye. This is because the juxtaposition between the white and black is a clear cut rendition of the audience’s effort and the fruits of their labor.

- The setting is an empty and spacious room with a charcoal grey flooring. The audience members would have to come into contact with the floor, where the heat is used to create the work. With each different position or action that the audience makes, it changes the artwork entirely. 

- As a result, the audience members and the artist herself interacting with the floor (the art object) is the artwork.

ANALYSIS:
EOA : Colour, Space

POA : Contrast, Emphasis, Repetition, Movement

INTERPRETATION:
- In response to the crisis in migration, Bruguera has focused on the status of the neighbour and what it means to act and interact locally.

- She invites audience members to take part in symbolic actions in the Turbine Hall, from revealing a portrait of a person’s face hidden beneath a heat-sensitive floor, to crying under the influence of an organic compound.

- The artists intentions behind installing such an artwork was to bring to light the devastating reality of migrants’ lives.

- Since 2014, the Missing Migrants Project has kept track of the number of people who die while attempting to migrate to a foreign country, without regards to their legal status’.  It is from the data provided by this project that this artwork gets its name - the ever increasing number of people affected translate into an ever increasing numbered title.

- The audience can explore how the museum can learn from and adapt to its local community beyond the duration of the commission

- The image hidden beneath the floor is of Yousef, a young man who fled Syria in 2011 and received emotional and practical support from SE1 United.

Was this fulfilled?
- The monochromatic colour scheme gives the work more solemn atmosphere and look. 

- As it is a interactive work, The audience members can work together with their immediate neighbors in the hall to touch the heat-sensitive material on the floor, which will reveal the image beneath by themselves. It allows them to find out the situation for themselves and raise awareness through a first hand experience.