Vinegar shot me for Art

1: Because of legal reasons, Burden had to make up a story for the police report about a jar of vinegar falling on the gun. This changed the official public account of what happened, which Burden seems to consider a part of the art. The "secondary audience' might have been likely to read newspapers and magazines that include the anecdotal description but also the official report. Does this change the meaning of the piece? Burden set out to find out what it was like to be shot, then he doesn't really explain what it was like emotionally, and he doesn't even tell the authorities what really happened. Should this be taken into consideration very seriously or not really, since it was just a way to keep the marksman and the audience from getting into legal trouble? Does the unwillingness to be completely candid reveal something? If I had to turn this into a single question, what is the difference if a jar of vinegar shot Burden, or if it was his friend?

2: What exactly are Minimalism and Modernism, as defined by Ward? I thought a characteristic of modernist art, is that it is transportable and that it can have the same meaning in many spaces. However, I'm seeing phrases like "modernist diving of authentic presence via medium" and "Minimalists' phenomenological spaces" (125). These seem to have a phenomenological site specificity attached to them, the idea that the experience is a part of the work. Does this means that the location is not part of the experience? Ward also sets Burden's Shoot as being different from modernism, but I have a hard time picking up the differences, or at least it's hard to keep everything straight. What is a word that can be used to categorize Shoot?