Nicolas Bourriaud

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Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator and art critic. From 1999 to 2006 he was co-founder and co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was founder & director of the magazine Documents sur l'art (1992-2000), and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art (1987-95). In 2009 Bourriaud will curate the fourth Tate Triennial at Tate Britain, London.[1]

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[edit] Writing

Main article: Relational Art

Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (2002) and Postproduction (2000). Relational Aesthetics in particular has come to be seen as a defining text for a wide variety of art produced by a generation who came to prominence in Europe in the early 1990s. Bourriaud coined the term in 1995, in a text for the catalogue of the exhibition Traffic that was shown at CAPC contemporary museum[1] in Bordeaux.

In Postproduction (2000), Bourriaud relates deejaying to contemporary art. He lists the operations DJs apply to music and relates them to contemporary art practice:

[edit] Bibliography

  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. Playlist. Paris: Palais de Tokyo: Editions cercle d'art, 2004. ISBN 2702207367
  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Paris: Presses du réel, 2002. ISBN 2840660601
  • Bourriaud, Nicolas, Caroline Schneider and Jeanine Herman. Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2002. ISBN 0971119309
  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s to Now. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2002.
  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. Formes de vie. L’art moderne et l’invention de soi. Paris: Editions Denoël, 1999.

[edit] Curated exhibitions (selection)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/nicolas_bourriaud/

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