relational aesthetics/ antagonism and relational aesthetics etc

Ben Lewis made a BBC film Art Safari - Relational Art: Is It An Ism? looking at various artists mentioned in Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics. You can watch it here. An interview about it is here.

Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics

Some interesting definitions from the glossary of Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, 1998

"Relational (aesthetics)

Aesthetic theory consisting in judging artworks on the basis of the inter-human relations which they represent, produce or prompt.

Relational (art)

A set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

Co-existence criterion

All works of are produce a model of sociability, which transposes reality or might be conveyed in it. So there is a question we are entitled to ask in front of any aesthetic production: "Does this work permit me to enter into dialogue? Could I exist, and how, in the space it defines?" A form is more or less democratic. May I simply remind you, for the record, that the forms produced by the art of totalitarian regimes are peremptory and closed in on themselves (particularly through their stress on symmetry). Otherwise put, they do not give the viewer a chance to complement them."