Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes 3

As an audience, why do we assume that our feedback is expected?
On many occasions, the only purpose of a showing is to get
feedback afterwards. Feedback is often the main reason why something
is done for others or in front of others. Of all the possible
reasons for having an audience for our work, the production
of feedback has often turned into the main purpose of a public
showing. Receiving feedback is the confirmation that our work
exists, it is symptomatic of the domination of an external validation
system that legitimises what deserves to be recognised and
what does not. But what if feedback was not necessary? What if
the absence of feedback was actually the purpose of an artwork?
What needs to happen in order to make any feedback at the end of
a piece impossible? I don’t mean sabotaging the time and space
for feedback at the end but rather a situation in which the receiver,
the audience, the spectator of an artwork, is literally incapable of
giving anything in return because their senses have been collapsed
by the artwork, their faculties have been neutralized by what
they have witnessed. Following this logic, the greatest expectation
that artists could have of their work is that it does not produce
any feedback at all and at least immediately after the piece, nothing
comes in return: there is only confusion in the air, disorder,
astonishment. In this light, the success or failure of the artwork
no longer depends on positive or negative feedback but rather to
what extent the audience’s faculties are suspended in the impasse
of initially being incapable of giving anything in return. In other
words, the logic of exchange has been dismantled. Unfortunately,
most of the time there is a habit of expecting feedback and response
immediately after seeing the work. Feedback culture presumes
that the feedback or response must happen but does not take
into consideration that the artwork might make you speechless,
leave you in state of shock, mesmerised by the disruptive nature
of the event.
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So what if next time we delay the time for giving feedback and
refuse immediate responses. What about fearlessly inhabiting