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Art Tue Feb 16 2010
Relational Art on ArtSlant
In Abraham Ritchie's (ArtSlant Chicago editor) thoughtful piece about Relational Art he says that, "Reaching a wide public that is distrustful of artists and suspicious of their work proves to be a challenge for the artist who is interested in the unifying or universal aspects of art. Relational Art rises to this challenge." Relational Art (sometimes called relationalism) was defined by Nicolas Bourriaud as 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." Ritchie cites many examples including Jeremy Deller's It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2009.