Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics. Claire Bishop

Antagonism and Relational AestheticsClaire Bishop. October Journal.

Mark Lewis. The Fight

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Palais de Tokyo

“Site for contemporary creation”

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Art Factories…

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The Experience EconomyThe Experience Economy

Carsten Holler. The Unilever Series

Public Art to RegeneratePublic Art to Regenerate

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YBAs / Relational Aesthetics

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Clement Greenberg1909 - 1994

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“the realm of human interactionsand its social context, rather than theassertion of an independent andprivate symbolic space”Nicolas Bourriaud 1965

Greenberg / Bourriaud

Relationship to other mediums…

Installation ArtPeter CoffinUntitled (Spiral Staircase)2006

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1960s Performance ArtGunter BrusWiener Spaziergang 1965

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Jorge Pardo’s Pier for Skulpture. Projekte Munster (1997)

“relational art works insist upon use rather than contemplation”

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1. A new ism must develop from an old ism

2. A New ism is a new way of thinking about Art

3. Artists of an ism must hang out together

4. A new ism in invented by an Art critic

5. A new era leads to a new ism

Ben Lewis Art Safari

Key Artists• Traffic CAPC Bordeaux 1996• Rirkrit Tiravanija• Phillippe Parreno• Pierre Huyghe• Carston Holler• Christine Hill• Vanessa Beecroft• Maurizio Cattelan• Jorge Pardo

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Gillick / Tiravanija

Rirkrit TiravanijaUntitled (Free). 303 Gallery, New York, 1992

Rirkrit Tiravanija

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Liam Gillick

Pinboard Project. (1992)

Prototype Erasmus Table No. 2 (1994)

Liam Gillick

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German Pavilion 2009How are You going to Behave?A kitchen cat speaks

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Nothing New…

Stephen Willats

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Around the Networks. January 2002

The poetics of the “work in movement” (and partly that of the “open” work) sets in motion a new cycle of relations between the artist and his audience, a new mechanics of aesthetic perception, a different status for the artistic product in contemporary society. It opens a new page in sociology and in pedagogy, as well as a new chapter in the history of art. It poses new practical problems by organizing new communicative situations. In short, it installs a new relationship between the contemplation and the utilization of a work of art.

Umberto Eco. The Open Work 1962

• Bourriaud Structure of an art work produces a social relationship

Theorists

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Grant Kester

“The emphasis is on the character of this interaction, not the physical or formal integrity of a given artifact or the artist’s experience in producing it”. Conversation Pieces

page 10

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Felix Gonzales-Torres Untitled (Placebo), 1991

• Bourriaud relies too heavily on the works’ relational content

Problems…

How do we critique the works?

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antagonism

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe

A democratic society is one in which relations in conflict must be sustained and not erased.

Without antagonism there is only the imposed consensus of authoritarian order.

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Sierra / Hirschhorn

Santiago Sierra

Similarly involves the literal setting up of relations

…the relations are marked by sensations of unease and discomfort rather than belonging

Collaborates with participants from a diverseeconomic background

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2001 Venice Biennale

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Thomas Hirschhorn 1957

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T.H Bateille Monument

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Familiarity Bataillean themes: word, sex, image, art and sport

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Experience/ HonestyExperience/ Honesty

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Relational Antagonism is predicted not on social harmony but on exposing that which is repressed in sustaining the semblance of this harmony.

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