this article lays out some critical framework of looking at art works in terms of the social relations they construct and then lists a large number of artists that the author believes represent this method of art making
art forms emerging in 90s include a wide range of services, contracts with viewers and tangible models of sociability. Spectator participation has become constant feature of artistic practice - theorized by fluxus happening and performance
"art and life" Alan Kaprow
new methods of communication suggest collective desire for new areas of conviviality
transivity (characterized by or involving transition; transitional; intermediate.) is tangible property of art work viewer activates the artwork - not a new idea
formal disorder inherant to dialogue - specific meaning replaced by forever unfinished discursiveness dialogue as actual origin of image making process
artwork defined as relational object
relations described by art:
- relations outside the field of art
- relations between individuals and groups
- relations between artist and world
- relations between beholder and world
history of art -
- relations with god/spirits - old
- relations between man and world - enlightenment
- inter-human relations - now