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Guests of the exhibition had an uncanny encounter with figures that resembled fashion advertising images but were in fact live human beings. 1969) instructed her live models to stand motionless, clad in designer shoes and rhinestone bikinis, or in some cases simply in designer shoes. For VB 35 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Vanessa Beecroft (b.

BOURRIAUD NICOLAS RELATIONAL AESTHETICS PORTABLE

Part Minimalist sculpture, part corporate capitalist architecture-consider portable screens used to create cubical walls or temporary meeting areas-his structure is seen by Gillick ultimately as a mere “backdrop or décor” for the interactivity of audiences. 1964), explores architecture’s role in human interactions. Liam Gillick's Big Conference Centre Limitation Screen, 1998īig Conference Centre Limitation Screen, by Liam Gillick (b. Members of the Streamside community can choose to execute the celebration again each year, a bit like playing a composer’s score. 1962), consisted in part of a parade and celebration in a suburban development in New York State. The community in Streamside Day, by Pierre Huyghe (b. The viewers became active participants, first locating the backrooms, then consuming the food and engaging in conversations with the artist and one another, instead of quietly looking at objects in an exhibition space.

1961), in perhaps the most iconic work of Relational art, Pad Thai (later renamed untitled/Free/Still), moved all the contents of an art gallery storeroom and office into the exhibition space and staged his work in the back rooms the art consisted of cooking Thai cuisine for his audience. These practices have their roots in earlier art movements, namely Dada, Conceptual art, Fluxus, and Allan Kaprow’s “Happenings.” Rather than producing objects for individual aesthetic contemplation, Relational artists attempt to produce new human relationships through collective experiences. It refers to installations and interactive events designed to facilitate community among participants (both artists and viewers). “Relational aesthetics” is a term coined by curator Nicolas Bourriaud for the exhibition “Traffic,” held at the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux in 1996. This essay from Phaidon’s Art in Time details this experimental and at times controversial movement that pushed the boundaries of art’s definition. Relational artists rejected making conventional art objects, instead opting to engage audiences by creating situations that call for-and sometimes force-interpersonal interaction. Nicolas Bourriaud was also in the curatorial team of the first and second Moscow Biennials in 20.Born in the 1990s-the decade of the World Wide Web, virtual networking, and cyberspace-the Relational Aesthetics movement saw artists hoping to foster interaction and communication between artist and viewer through participatory installations and events. The Molecular Turn, La Panacée (2018) Back to Mulholland Drive, La Panacée (2017) Wirikuta, MECA Aguascalientes, Mexico (2016) The Great Acceleration, Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial (2014) The Angel of History, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2013) Monodrome, Athens Biennial (2011) and Altermodern, Tate Triennial, London (2009), among others. He is the author of the landmark publication Relational Aesthetics, published in 1998, and still inspirational today for many artists, curators, and art professionals worldwide.īourriaud's curated exhibitions include The 7th continent, Istanbul Biennial (2019), Crash Test. He also founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, between 19, and founded the curatorial cooperative Radicants in 2022. He was Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain in London from 2007 to 2010 and founder advisor for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv. He was the director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2011 to 2015.

He was the founder and director of Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo), gathering the La Panacée art centre, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Hôtel des Collections. Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator, theoritian and writer.

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