Episode 468: switcheroo response to Cindy Sherman

Switcheroo from the American Life,

What if someone mistakes you for someone else?

        When I was listening to the program it seemed as if a woman goes up to them saying that she is Cindy Sherman.  It happens at a moment when Ira’s companion is just realizing that all the photos are of Cindy, playing the different roles, when this woman approaches the two of them and says she visits the exhibition every day to see how viewers react to the work. Cindy wanted to see at the exhibition on how people reacted if she wasn't really the Cindy Sherman. When she spots artwork she feels like each are impersonal. Sometimes if you can't tell what a piece is, listening to the artist who made it can make it clearer but people can also interpret it in their own way. All of what is said is more opinionated that facts because that's how art should be anyway. Cindy was making this own experiment by making people question and wonder about her and of the art, for herself and related the audio to her work.