Nicolas Bourriaud on Digital Relations
What level of participation should be implemented in digital art projects?How interactive does an art institution that is born online need to be? How much does the growing involvement of the online user also affect the way exhibitions are created in the physical spaces of museums and galleries?
In the first meeting of the Institution Under Construction program, Nicolas Bourriaud, the father of participatory artistic tendencies, is called to answer these questions. He was the one who in the 1990s defined the characteristics of “relational aesthetics”, according to which art, rather than mere artifact, is the activator of social interactions.
A pile of candies from which the public can pick up and eat, a slow-moving carousel on which the visitor is invited to get on, or even a plate of Pad Thai cooked and enjoyed in company: these are just some of the cases in which Bourriaud described the reversal of the traditional artistic approach based on the object and focused on the process and involvement.
Was it an anticipation of the advent of digital communication that would soon turn all consumers into producers? And what will happen now, at a time when many creative activities are increasingly being shifted to the digital world? In the midst of this further turning point, when Metaverso is emerging as a virtual alternative to real life, Bourriaud will try to take stock of the situation, also in attempt to imagine what the museum of the future will be like.
The conference/interview, conducted by Nicolò Piccioni, takes place live in English on the project’s social networks and is translated live into Italian and Chinese.
Nicolas Bourriaud (born in Niort in 1965) founded and directed the Palais de Tokyo in collaboration with Jérôme Sans from 2002 to 2006. Since the beginning of his activity, Bourriaud has distinguished himself for having consistently pursued the theoretical and curatorial activities. In addition to having founded, since 1992, the contemporary art magazine “Documents sur l’art”, Bourriaud has written particularly influential books: Relational aesthetics (1998), Postproduction (2002) The Radicant (2009), The Exform(2016), Inclusions. Aesthetics of the Capitalocene (2020). As curator he has organized numerous exhibitions including the Biennials of Lyon, Moscow, Taipei and Istanbul and the Tate Triennial.
Institution Under Construction is an online meeting program that develops four fundamental themes for the construction of a digital artistic institution: participation, realism, sustainability and new ways of financing culture.
Lecture topic : Digital relations
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Timetable： 15.00(CEST)
AM9:00-10:00( New York time )
PM9:00-10:00( Taiwan time )
Live on Facebook and Youtube,in English ,Italian and Chinese
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