Notes
(subtitle: Clair Bishop- "mowing down mc's like she's mowing the lawn")
- White cube
- Experimental laboratory, construction site, art factory
- work-in-progress paradigm as opposed to completed object
- experience economy -- lab as leisure space
- "institutionalized studio activity"
- Museum amenities (bar, cafe, lounge) as art
- art as design, curator as art-star
- Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthetique Relationnel
- human interaction and social context as art
- a means of locating contemporary practice
- transition from goods to services
- use rather than contemplation
- intersubjective relations over detached opticality
- immediacy
- instead of utopia, provisional solutions here and now: microtopia
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- rather than questioning the object, merely reproducing it?
- Liam Gillick
- ironically bland management jargon
- Happenings, Fluxus, 1970s perfromance art
- rhetoric of democracy and emancipation
- difference between artistic intention and reception
- for Eco, all work is "open." For Bourriaud, the artist creates "open" work
- relational art = outgrowth of installation art?
- what is the medium?
- lack of a specific medium means lack of conventions to operate against against
- for Bourriaud, how to judge relational art: aesthetic, political, ethical
- "does this work permit me to enter into dialogue?"
- "Could I exists, and how, in the space it defines?"
- removes consideration of the contents and subject matter
- rather than what is cooked, the fact that it is given away
- structure as subject matter -- highly formalist
- does dialogue = democracy? how is "democratic" defined?
- Laclau + Mouffe
- conflict and instability as necessary conditions of democracy
- conflict sustained rather than erased
- without antagonism, there is imposed authoritarian order
- antagonism is a natural relation between incomplete Lacanian subjectivities
- "microtopian" relational communities are based on togetherness and commonality
- art considered good because it promotes art world networking
- if you forget the "What for?" you're left with simple Nokia art
- microtopia - like utopia - is predicated on the exclusion of those who hinder it's realization
- the pleasures of a private group, as opposed to social transformation
- Santiago Sierra
- sensationalist, controversial
- meditation on everybody having a price
- obvious statement of capitalist exploitation
- belief in the impossibility of change
- highlight the divisions enforced by different contexts
- sustained tension rather than reconciliation
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- an active work rather than an interactive work
- enough to be a thoughtful visitor