Sunday, 10 January 2010

Research into Project Proposal

Bourriaud, Nicolas (2002) 'Relational Aesthetics' France:Les Presses du reel.

Questions asked:
"How are these apparently elusive works to be decoded, be they process-related or behavioural by ceasing to take shelter behind the sixties art history." (pg.7 introduction)

Artists:
"Vanessa Beecroft dresses some twenty women in the same way, complete with a red wig, and the visitor merely gets a glimpse of them through the doorway." (pg.8)

Is it sculpture? Is it installation? A performance? Social Activism? (questions asked in relation to Rirkrit Tiravanija's work produced for Aperto 93.

Fluxus : described as intermedia

How to occupy a gallery?
"relational" artists

Issues outlined in 'performance works'

Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled (Blue Mirror)' Endless posters that can be taken away by the visiting public.

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