THE VERA LIST CENTER PRESENTS:
Viewing Acts: A Panel and Discussion on Contemporary Art and Audience Relations, featuring
Claire Bishop
Coco Fusco
Alan Gilbert
Grant Kester
and Vera List Center Fellow Walid Raad
Thursday, May 5, 2005, 6:30 PM
The New School
Wollman Hall
66 West 12th Street, 4th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for students
The past decade has seen artists, critics, and scholars significantly rethink interactive relationships between artworks and audiences. One prominent version of this interactivity is known as “relational aesthetics,” a theory attributed to French curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud. The phrase has come to designate a particular connection between the form, experience, and meaning of the work of art and its intended or imagined audience. Other critics have described this type of relationship as dialogical. Understood as collaborative, reciprocating, frequently site-specific, and usually transient, relational and dialogical art practices take as their conceptual horizon the realms of exchange between artist, artwork, and audience.
This panel will address current dominant approaches to an aesthetics and politics of relation. Featuring presentations by Claire Bishop, Coco Fusco, and Grant Kester, followed by a conversation with Alan Gilbert and 2004/05 Vera List Center Fellow Walid Raad, the panel will focus on topics such as the limits and possibilities of interactive relations, and the various institutional and cultural contexts for these relations.
For ticket information and reservations, please email specialprograms@newschool.edu or call (212) 229-5353.
Claire Bishop
Coco Fusco
Alan Gilbert
Grant Kester
and Vera List Center Fellow Walid Raad
Thursday, May 5, 2005, 6:30 PM
The New School
Wollman Hall
66 West 12th Street, 4th floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for students
The past decade has seen artists, critics, and scholars significantly rethink interactive relationships between artworks and audiences. One prominent version of this interactivity is known as “relational aesthetics,” a theory attributed to French curator and critic Nicolas Bourriaud. The phrase has come to designate a particular connection between the form, experience, and meaning of the work of art and its intended or imagined audience. Other critics have described this type of relationship as dialogical. Understood as collaborative, reciprocating, frequently site-specific, and usually transient, relational and dialogical art practices take as their conceptual horizon the realms of exchange between artist, artwork, and audience.
This panel will address current dominant approaches to an aesthetics and politics of relation. Featuring presentations by Claire Bishop, Coco Fusco, and Grant Kester, followed by a conversation with Alan Gilbert and 2004/05 Vera List Center Fellow Walid Raad, the panel will focus on topics such as the limits and possibilities of interactive relations, and the various institutional and cultural contexts for these relations.
For ticket information and reservations, please email specialprograms@newschool.edu or call (212) 229-5353.
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