Relational Aesthetics (Lecture notes):
Relational Aesthetics – 1996:
aesthetics
Burriaud
contemporary
environmentalism
microcommunites
pseudo-aristocratic
society
urbanisation
changing environment
social ideals
social perception
societal change
How societal changes effect the way we view art:
openness
movement in the artwork
how art is communicated
how the interruption of communication changes the meaning/context
where art happens
art modes/format in relation to artist participation
conversation
audience
participation
expectation of audience as paticipants
the audience, object, space and artist as the artwork
Relevant Artists:
Felix Gonzalez Torres
contextual
pile of sweets
audience participation
172lb
human weight
partner suffered from aids → 172lb was his healthiest weight → 172lb of sweets → people invited to take sweets → curator tops up sweets each day to full amount
human condition
fragility
analogy of a person dying
1990s → context in relation to time art was produced
Hal Foster:
chat rooms
critique of Bouriard and Hans Obrist
Further notes:
fluxus
art povera
art movement
nouveau movement
activism
the right now
art in the real world
structures
conventions
critical thinking
critical analysis
we are no longer an age of production
we are an age of information
query's traditional art
art for arts sake
purpose of art
critical culture
art after theory
lack of conventions
collaboration
reflection/reaction to lived experience
autobiographical
social structures
the everyday
the boundary bettween passive and active
active engagement with art
passive engagement with art
emancipated spectators → Jacques Ranciere
freedom of interpretation
having agency/freedom
giving audience control
knowledge as power
artwork as a moment of focus