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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."
Writing in Frieze art magazine, Carl Freedman said, "Traffic and Bourriaud’s concept of ‘relationality’ were just too unspecific to be capable of defining a new art, especially when so many of the works did little to support the exhibition’s premise. This was an ambitiously funded exhibition which was only able to provide the viewer ...
Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (1998/English version 2002), Postproduction (2001), and The Exform (2015/ English version 2016). 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 ...
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 ...
In 1995 he was included in Traffic, the survey exhibition curated by Nicolas Bourriaud that helped to launch the Relational Aesthetics art movement. Manetas was categorized as one of idiots of that movement in the catalogue of the Traffic show, [9] and later, in Bourriaud's book Relational Aesthetics. [10]
Instead vaguely similar strategies were labeled as Models of Participatory Practice [4] in 1998 by Christian Kravagna's attempt to define the field or the later appearing and quite moderate Relational Art based on the 2002 book Relational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud.
Altermodern, a blend word defined by Nicolas Bourriaud, is an attempt at contextualizing art made in today's global context as a reaction against standardisation and commercialism. It is also the title of the Tate Britain 's fourth Triennial exhibition curated by Bourriaud.
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. [1] [2] Bishop is known as one of the central theorists of participation in visual art and performance.