Andrea Fraser radically performs the role of a museum docent to expose the discourse that defines entering an institutional sphere and address its limiting nature with regards to race and class.

I think it is interesting that Fraser decided her identification as a docent became problematic and obscured her authority as an artist and further obscured “the relations of domination of which museums are the sites and which its recognized agents produce and reproduce”.

I am curious as to the responsibility of the artist when performance pieces are received un-ironically. The same question holds for Coco Fusco’s piece, Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West. I would like to know the reception of Fraser’s Museum Highlights piece and if it accomplished her original goals.

Similarly, with the informal circulation of the Letter to Wadsworth Atheneum at the museum, I am curious what the audience reaction was. While the letter was addressed to the institution, the audience was in fact the very bourgeoisie population that the letter confronts.

I would also be curious to hear Fraser’s thoughts on what constitutes art. For me, her letter is more a promotion of social awareness.