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1998
French edition
15 x 21 cm (softcover)
128 pages
8 €
ISBN: 978-2-84066-030-9
EAN: 9782840660309
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society?
Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser,
Rirkrit Tiravanija or Félix Guattari, along with most of today's practising creative personalities.
Nicolas Bourriaud is born in 1965. Art critic and exhibition curator, he lives in London, where he is currently
Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary
Art at Tate Britain. He was co-founder and
co-director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
(2000-2006). He has presented exhibitions
in art centres in France – CCC in Tours, Crac
in Sète, etc. – and abroad: Fri Art in Fribourg,
San Francisco Art Institute and elsewhere.
He was cofounder of the reviews
Documents sur l’art (1992-2000) and
Perpendiculaire (1995-1998).
