Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Umathum, Sandra
• Wihstutz, Benjamin
• Fischer-Lichte, Erika

Titel

The art of not relating with one another: Notes on some issues and potentials of relational art 1

Ist Teil von

• Transformative Aesthetics, 2018, Vol.1, p.208-221

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bourriaud thus brings relational art into play as the answer to now deficient communication structures and to the virulence of increasingly indirect or virtual encounters. Bourriaud is clearly highly confident (or ambitious) as regards the potential of relational art—bearing in mind that museums are not adequately equipped to assemble visitors around one work at the same time. By staging intersubjective encounters, the more interesting among relational artworks have transformed museums and galleries into settings in which participants' various interests, attitudes, sensitivities, or dispositions may meet and be given consideration. The levelling of art and non-art constitutes Ranciere's most vehement objection to Bourriaud's relational aesthetics and—since he equally dispenses with looking closely at concrete situations—relational artworks. Ranciere acknowledges that relational art, by constructing intersubjective relationalities, facilitates a shift in perception and a change in status from onlooker to agent. The issue with many relational artworks goes further than their oft-criticised pseudo-criticism and the blind spots they thereby reveal.