The following text is based upon a seminar delivered at the CLTAD conference, Enhancing the Curriculum in Art and Design. It draws upon an AHRB funded research project involving interviews with artists, undergraduate Fine Art students and questionnaires sent out to Fine Art course tutors mostly in the UK but also in Europe and New […]
Text written for the exhibition publication for An Experiment in Collaboration, curated by Sarah Williams at The Jerwood Space in Summer 2008
In 1996 Nicolas Bourriaud (1996) proposed the concept of ‘relational aesthetics’ in order to identify the common artistic practices that were evident in the exhibition Traffic. He subsequently claimed that the ‘interhuman sphere: relationships between people, communities, individuals, groups, social networks, interactivity’ that existed in the work of artists such as Pierre Huyghe, Maurizio Cattelan, […]
