Artists work specifically planned for a specific audience

Nicolas Bourriaud’s ‘Relational Aesthetics’ talks about the use and participation of the audience in many of the artworks. Though the artists all seem to state the audience that they planned their works for, many of the pieces seem to include the audience as being randomly selected or just whoever was in the proximity of the pieces to interact with them. Such as Ben Kinmont randomly selectiong people to do the washing up as well as Rirkrit Tiravanija and his piece in which the water is boiling and the audience has the opportunity to interact and make and try the soup.

Even though they are aiming at getting the same sort of interaction to the style and the pieces some other artists, including Tiravanija, whose piece “Surfaces de reparation show (Dijon 1994)” which is mentioned later under ‘Conviviality and Encounters’ was a piece of work in which he provided a relaxation area that was specifically intended for the exhibiting artists which included a fridge and a table football game. In the same way Christian Boltanski sent SOS letters to a few of his acquaintances. In contrast to the works in paragraph one, these two works were designed to include a very specific audience being in Tiravanija’s work, the group of artists in the show or in Boltanski’s work, his acquaintances.