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Landy, Breakdown, 01-sm by Julian Stallabrass Via Flickr: Michael Landy, Breakdown, 2001

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Relational Aesthetics

Julian Stallabrass (2006), 'Chapter 6: Contradictions' in Contemporary Art: a very short induction (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 

'Rational aesthetics' or "socially interactive art' as it is more commonly referred to is art that requires the audiences participation for the work to be able to function. This means that is it not about the objects within the art but more about how the audience reacts to the piece itself. 

Stallabrass's extract which is mentioned above goes on to talk about this and how social interactive art can have a very different outcome to those piece that only require the audiences gaze. By making the art more intractable it can bring a sociable element to it as the audience must engage with the piece or other people around them. In an age where keeping hold of old acquaintances is easier than ever, actually socialising with the people around you is becoming more difficult. 

in this piece of text Stallabrass talks about Bourriaud, a curator of the art space Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and what art means to him. He says

'For Bourriaud, art encourages social interaction among its viewers reacts directly against a general trend to increasing social fragmentation, from ever greater specialisation at work to the tendency for people to lock themselves away in their homes in the company of media rather than other people.' 

Socially interactive art is very interesting as it can make a piece 'more organic', according to Stallabrass, with the audience almost taking on the role of the artist by ways of creating different outcomes to make the piece work. The main role of an artist within this is to provide a platform for the audience to engage with the work and break the social boundaries. 

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J StallabrassのThe Aesthetics of Net.Artを読んでみた．J Stallabrassはnet.artには「anti-aesthetic」だと言われていて，確かにアートがもってきたモノとしての「aesthetic」はないけれども，アート，コンテンポラリーアートが行ってきた政治的・商業的なものへの抵抗みたいない意味では「aesthetic」があって，ここに関していえば，コンテンポラリーアートよりも「理想主義」なnet.artこそが「aesthetic」なのではないか．少なくとも「(retro) aesthetic gestures」をもっている，というようなことが書いてったような気がする．

これを読んでいて思ったのが，net.artはそうだったかもしれないけれど，ポストインターネット・アートはコンテンポラリー寄りの戦略をとっているなということ．それと，インターネットヤミ市は意外とnet.artに似ているなということ．net.artが結構，強行的に経済や政治に介入したの対して，ヤミ市は「ユーモア」だけれども，突っ込んでいっている対象は経済のお金で同じだから．そんなことを考えた．ここにヤミ市の特徴である「身体」「リアル」を組み合わせると面白いかもしれない．