How contemporary artists set up and then break what a viewer assumes

What this note covers

1. Identify the expectation before claiming it has been broken
2. Use medium and genre to set the trap
3. Separate intention, mechanism and actual reception
4. Exploit institutional and digital interfaces
5. Compare different degrees of interruption
6. Evaluate disruption without rewarding novelty
7. Worked expectation sequence: turn an empty display case into a sustained argument
8. Worked interface disruption: audit a digital promise of deletion

8 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes