Relational aesthetics:

I tired and went off on a tangent when i read this reader but any who here are my thoughts:

This reader made me think about the transformation of technology and society. How this interplay between them has highlighted in a continual morphing in social, political and philosophical concept. This has Resulted in an awareness of the intricate nature of society/individual/artist interactions with the environment or our surrounding space and objects within.

It highlighted that relations are not static rather constantly evolving, I particularly like this quote “[Althusser] catches the world on the move: he is a tenant or culture’. I like reflecting on the relationships different audiences and artists have had with their works. By the mid 20^thC artists and audiences alike are drawing from a society and culture that is drenched in culture and tradition and rebel against preconceived established ways with unconventional and egalitarian concepts that redefine tangible and the intangible. This resulted in an examination of value, ownership, practice, relational and subjective interaction with object and space. Yet it made me wander in how an audience during earlier eras of art and enquiry such as the renaissance could draw no more meaning than was intended or dictated by the patron/ painter?- an audiences subjectivity and relation to it did not change its meaning.