Dialogical artists's artistic identity

[Dialogical artist's] sense of artistic identity is sufficiently coherent to speak as well as to listen, but it remains contingent upon the insights to be derived from their interaction with others and with otherness. They define themselves as artists through their ability to catalyse understanding, to mediate exchange, and to sustain an ongoing process if empathetic identification and critical analysis...

Grant H. Kester, Conversation Pieces...