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Relational Aesthetics

Thinking about my forthcoming final year of study and my intended direction with my studio practice, I have ordered the book Relational Aesthetics by Nicholas Bourriaud. By way of an explanation:
(Courtesy of Tate Glossary)

Relational Aesthetics 

The French curator Nicholas Bourriaud published a book called Relational Aesthetics in 1998 in which he described the term as meaning ¿a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.¿ He saw artists as facilitators rather than makers and regarded art as information exchanged between the artist and the viewers. The artist, in this sense, gives audiences access to power and the means to change the world. Bourriaud cited the art of Gillian Wearing, Philippe Parreno,Douglas Gordon and Liam Gillick as artists who work to this agenda.

Gillian Wearing `I'm desperate' 1992-3