I found this article interesting especially with its references to Nicolas Bourriaud's "Relational Aesthetics" but also found it to be quite intense with the lists of artists (similar to Bourriauds) and the many different ideas compressed into two pages of writing.
"At times everything seems to be happy interactivity: among 'aesthetic objects' Bourriaud counts 'meetings, encounters, events, various types of collaboration between people, games, festivals, and places of conviviality, in a word all manner of encounter and relational invention'" (Hal Foster, "Arty Party", London Review of Books Dec 2003, p. 22)
I particularly found it to be interesting when it touches on the use of collaborations and installations within art. I viewed a collaborative project "The Postcard Project" in an exhibition at Vanishing Point Gallery last friday. This work was an installion of many postcards pegged to string which hung from the walls of the gallery. These postcards were cleverly illustrated in an autobiographical manner of the relationships between these three artists. The work involved relational aesthetics as the artists attempt to invovle the audience by posting a letter next to the statement of purpose on the wall asking them to write down their postage address in a notebook left by the exhibition so the artists could send them a postcard.
This work had an element of collaboration and audience participation, as i found there were many names and postage addresses written down in the notebook. I found this work so interesting and inspiring that these artists were connecting with their audiences in an authentic way and wanted to avoid the use of technology and its effects on art today. (Something which was mentioned in their statement of purpose.)
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