What is the audience?

In his writing "Diary:Audience 1966", John Cage creates this sort of future look at the role art will take and how it will interact with the audience. Or rather, how the audience will interact with the art. It is interesting to me to read that in his mind, the audience is not like one or two people. Or even that the audience is less apart of the art they are viewing. For Cage art and the audience go hand in hand, you can not have one without the other and it is like a "family reunion". This secret between two friends, because as individuals each audience member looks at different elements of the art in different ways. But going back this idea of art and the audience interacting. I think this is poignant statement. I mean today with the hustle and bustle of the world, sometimes it takes more than just looking at a painting in order to capture the audiences' attention. I like the idea of audience's participating more in the art than just taking this passive role in the viewing. For me art like Golan Levin, bring so much more to the art than if he had just created something and let it stand. I think it now adds to the flavor of the human interaction. Because each story created is something different, but only for a moment is the story even seen or comprehended and then like the blink of an eye the story shifts and a new idea is formed and a new story is created in its wake. The thing about audience interaction is that it gets the artist to participate more in art, and to have more reasons to want to go to a theater to see a show etc. Like I went to the Lion King off Broadway and it was a amazing. The opening act starts in the aisles of the audience. It brings more to life and allows you to kind of be a part of the show. Then of course the show moves to the stage, but you are already locked in. Simple gestures like that go a long way I think with taking art to the next level.