I really like this growing trend of INCLUSIVE art. In my opinion "art about art" has a circular and insular quality that can only result in it running itself into the ground and ultimately becoming irrelevant. On the other hand I really appreciate an approach to art that takes a wider frame of reference, ie existing modes of social relations. I don't neccessarily mean "art for everybody" in the sense of a 'closed' or 'obvious' artwork with a meaning that can be easily figured out by the layperson. Rather, I am talking about art that can engage with hypothetically anyone who encounters it, for the very reason that there is nothing to 'figure out' neccessarily.
The story of changing public art practices and issues of site-specifity I think really illustrates this shift. As said by Serra "unlike Modernist artworks that ... function critically only in relation to the language of their own medium, site-specific works emphasise the comparison between the two separate languages". I think this idea of facilitating both the language of the artworld and that of the public sphere is a really important step in changing the relationship between the art world and the world at large.
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