ARTH 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nicolas Bourriaud, Liam Gillick, Relational Art
2 Mar 2017
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Relational aesthetics aesthetics proactional point of departure the whole of human relations and their. Term created and defined by nicolas bourriaud in his book relational. Definition (cid:499)a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and social context rather than independent and private space(cid:499) A (cid:498)do it yourself(cid:499) micro topia is what bourriaud perceives to be the core. Viewer experiences the constructed social environment becoming art. Shift in attitude to social change find solutions in the here and now. Trying to focus on the here and the now political significance of relational aesthetics. Inhabiting the world in the better way, sets up the micro topia in the present. The involvement of the audience is the main focus. Food is a means to allow relationship between he work and constitute something like a community. It"s the experience of that work that"s significant.
