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Resources on the Relational Debate
I’ve been collecting & rereading material related to Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, Grant Kester’s Conversation Pieces, and Claire Bishop’s critiques. Here’s a short web-accessible reading list which will likely be expanded periodically. The original version of this list was appended to a post I made back in January on the IDC list.
Claire Bishop, Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Claire Bishop, The Social Turn
Claire Bishop, Socially Engaged Art, an Interview with Claire Bishop by Jennifer Roche
Nicholas Bourriaud from Relational Aesthetics
Nicholas Bourriaud glossary from Relational Aesthetics
Nichola Bourriaud and Karen Moss interview
Sarah James, The Ethics of Aesthetics
Grant Kester, Dialogical Aesthetics
Lars Bang Larsen, Social Aesthetics
Darren O’Donnell Greasing the Glue (includes criteria for beautiful civic engagement)
Darren O’Donnell Haircuts by Children interview
Jacques Ranciere, Art of the Possible – interview
Radical Culture Research Collective A Very Short Critique of Relational Aesthetics
Sal Randolph, Notes on Social Architectures as Artforms
Judith Rodenbeck – The Open Work; Participatory Art Since Silence – mp3 of talk
Judith Rodenbeck – The Open Work; Participatory Art Since Silence – text
Trebor Scholz The Participatory Challenge
See also: del.icio.us/salrandolph/relationalaesthetics
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