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Relational art or relational aesthetics is a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud.Bourriaud defined the approach as "a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space."
Relational Aesthetics in particular has come to be seen as a defining text for a wide variety of art produced by a generation who came to prominence in Europe in the early 1990s. Bourriaud coined the term in 1995, in a text for the catalogue of the exhibition Traffic that was shown at the CAPC contemporary art museum [13] in Bordeaux.
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012); “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" (2004) Claire Bishop is a British art historian , critic , and Presidential Professor of Art History at CUNY Graduate Center , New York where she has taught since September 2008.
Social practice or socially engaged practice [1] in the arts focuses on community engagement through a range of art media, human interaction and social discourse. [2] While the term social practice has been used in the social sciences to refer to a fundamental property of human interaction, it has also been used to describe community-based arts practices such as relational aesthetics, [3] [4 ...
Framis studied with the French minimalist artist Daniel Buren [3] and the American conceptual artist Dan Graham [4] and her work can be located within the lineages of relational aesthetics, performance art, and social practice art. [5] She represented the Netherlands in the Dutch Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
Grigely is sometimes considered a proponent of Relational Aesthetics; he was included in Nicolas Bourriaud's show "Contacts" at Kunsthalle Fribourg in 2000 and "Touch: Relational Aesthetics in the 1990s" at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. [12] Grigely's work also explores how archives might be engaged creatively and critically.
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Gelitin in 2014. From left to right: Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither, Ali Janka and Tobias Urban Artists at work on a 2014 project in Moscow. Gelitin (stylized in lowercase as gelitin) is a group of four artists from Vienna, Austria.