Some thoughts about "Art"

I don't think I'm an artist, actually. I think I'm an art addict. I regularly say things like, "I'm always creating art. If I don't, I start to feel like something is missing." If I were to say that about anything else I would be describing addiction. I am still processing this.

Does art require that its creator be an artist? I used to require that art be something created with intention. I am wondering if I truly believe this in all cases.

Is art transient? Can something that was art become not art, and inversely, can something that was not art become art?

How important is the role of the audience in art? Or, is art reliant on there being an audience? I think back on Jacob Geller's video: Art for No One. This implies at least two kinds of art: art with and without an audience.

What even is art??? Is it a thing? A title? An emergent feature? An action?

A scientific thought experiment on art:

An Artist gathers a team of people and tells them to create something with very specific guidelines. The artist will not know what the final piece will be, the only thing they can know is what it will not be. The team then divides labour between themselves and produces a fraction of the final piece. They then hand their fractions to another person or team who only have directions on how to assemble the fractions, with no reference to the original Artist’s guidelines. Is the final piece Art? Is the process Art? Is Art present at any point, and if so when and why? Like a reverse Theseus's Ship.

I may or may not be in the middle of an existential crisis…