Knowing how to approach and experience contemporary art is a challenge to many people outside the art world. Emerging contemporary art, as the newest of this genre, is often the most challenging. This article recounts my own early struggles as a researcher in this field, and proposes a way of understanding the interaction between artist, artwork and perceiver based on my observations of how contemporary artists encounter each others' work. I argue that contemporary art, and especially emerging contemporary art, creates a space to play by creating an intentional gap in the physical form and/or the semantic structure of the artwork. The object of play is the co‐investigation of an idea initiated by the artist, facilitated by the form of the work and furthered by the encounter. Play, it is argued, is essential to emerging contemporary art as an activity, a communicative frame and a disposition. I draw from earlier theoretical connections between art, play and liberation, challenging some of these assertions, and bringing others into relevance in the contemporary context.

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注意差距：通过游戏遇到当代艺术

知道如何处理和体验当代艺术是艺术界以外许多人的挑战。作为这一类型中的最新类型，新兴当代艺术通常是最具挑战性的。本文叙述了我在该领域作为研究人员的早期努力，并根据我对当代艺术家如何相遇彼此的观察，提出了一种理解艺术家，艺术品和感知者之间相互作用的方式。我认为，当代艺术，尤其是新兴的当代艺术，通过在艺术品的物理形式和/或语义结构上造成故意的缝隙，创造了一个游戏空间。游戏的目的是对艺术家发起的一个想法进行共同研究，这种想法通过作品的形式得到促进，并通过相遇而得以进一步发展。有人说玩，对于一项新兴的当代艺术而言，作为一项活动，一种交流框架和一种倾向至关重要。我借鉴了艺术，娱乐和解放之间的早期理论联系，挑战了其中的一些主张，并在当代背景下将其他主张纳入现实。