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As defined in the glossary of Nicolas Bourriaud's book Relational Aesthetics, Relational (Art) is: "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." (Bourriaud, 2002 trans.)

Writer and director Ben Lewis has suggested that relational art is the new "ism", in analogue with "ism"s of earlier periods such as impressionism, expressionism and cubism. Lewis finds many similarities between relational art and earlier "ism"s at their beginnings: Relational art is often not considered art at all because it redefines the concept of art; Many artists considered "relational" deny that they are such; Relational art had a "founding" exhibition, etc.

Artists included by Bourriaud under the rubric of Relational Aesthetics include:

Vanessa Beecroft, Henry Bond, Angela Bulloch, Jes Brinch, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Maurizio Cattelan, Andrea Clavadetscher, Eric Schumacher, Honore D«O, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Jens Haaning, Lothar Hempel, Christine Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Peter Land, Miltos Manetas, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Jason Rhoades, Christopher Sperandio, Simon Grennan, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Xavier Veilhan, Gillian Wearing, Kenji Yanobe.



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