Relational Aesthetics wk1

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Relational Aesthetics - Nicolas Bourriaud
Participation and transivity - an introduction to relational aesthetics.

'Is it Sculpture? An installation? A performance? An example of social Activism?'

Relational Aesthetics tends to make you question how you view an artwork and how you have viewed one in the past. The first thing I want to do when I see an artwork/Object or Sculpture, that Im interested in, Is the want to touch it. But of coarse in a gallery space thats a big No. Therefore works enticing the viewer to do so, the work automatically becomes attractive to the naked eye, even though you may question what the hell it is in the first place whether it is art or not. The relationship between the viewer and the work now extend to another level, a connection is drawn and now you think differently about it. To question whether it is or isn't art brings attention to the educated and uneducated eye. I say yes, yes it is. Though you say No. Its a never ending game of ping pong.

'Delacroix wrote in his diary that a successful picture "condensed" an emotion that it was the duty of the beholders eye to bring it to life.' This idea of transitivity introduces into the aesthetic arena that formal disorder which is inherent to dialogue.' Participating in an action encourages the audience to think further into the idea of an artwork, allowing one to search for the emotion, and each to there own. The relational aesthetics song is right to say you cant be wrong when you discuss the topic and propose your point of view. I wanted to use this art work as an introduction, For how you feel coming back to reality when you've been out of it for too long. As the artists sings she wants you to sing along whether you know the words or not. Is it an artwork if your singing along with her? Do you know what she is talking about? Do you think its boring. Do you think its not art? Whether it is or not, your now thinking about the relationship between the singer, song, art and yourself.

Your Always taught to question an artwork. What makes Relational Aesthetics any different? You may not have been aware of it until now or until the words have been placed in front of you, but its always been in the history books, pivotal in the 60's and 70's and the 90's. The question 'What is art'? Is dawned upon you in high school. And your left to think that art is what you make of it, all to there own decision and perspective. Though the boundaries have already been broadened the focus is on the experience and social activity.

'Meetings, encounters, events, various types of collaboration between people, games, festivals and places of conviviality, in a words all manner encounter and relational invention thus represent, today, aesthetic objects likely to be looked at as such.'


' If you were offered a tea cup, tea and a bikie, would you say yes, if the tea cup had holes in it? '

'Would you consider

'a naked slip and slide an artwork?' A community/group/strangers getting together to play and slide in the mud while at a music and arts festival. You can join in or just watch, I guess its what you make of it.

or

'Drinking a bottle of wine.' Not realising until its been casted in plaster and remade in porcelain, that words inscribed on the bottle is the documentation of the words you whispered when you were blind.
Where did the art work begin?