Nicolas Bourriaud
- Author(s)
- Nicolas Bourriaud
- Publication
- Dijon : Les presses du réel, 2002 (1998 originally in french)
- Scope
- 125 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 2840660601
RELATIONAL AESTHETICS: Term created by the french curator Nicholas Bourriaud in the 1990s to describe the tendency to make art based on, or inspired by, human relations and their social context. Bourriaud published a book called Relational Aesthetics in 1998 in which he defined the term 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. He saw artists as facilitators rather than makers and regarded art as information exchanged between the artist and the viewers. The artist, in this sense, gives audiences access to power and the means to change the world.
- Keywords
- social practice - community art
- Location
- Cabinet 31 - 3: Sociale praktijk
- Remarks
- Incl. glossary and Index.
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