Okay, so on Monday night I found out that I ordered the wrong Bourriaud book from Amazon so my reading of Relational Aesthetics has been shaped by some of the .PDF essays from the book that I've been able to track down on the internet. I had imagined, at the time, that I could focus my post here on Rancière, but then, well, I read Rancière and I must confess that this may be an "interesting" post...
Both of the texts for this week seem to share in common a focus on the public and an embracing of the connectivity of life in generally and the role of aesthetics in this connectivity. For Bourriaud, this connectivity (or, more specifically here, relationality) moves art and aesthetic experience from the realm of the private into the realm of the public. In other words, the value of art rests in its potential to bring people in relation to one another in particular ways an in specific cultural contexts. For Rancière, the role connectivity comes in somewhat differently through the connection between aesthetics and politics.
From what I can discern, Rancière seems to be suggesting that aesthetics is deeply entangled with (not necessarily causally, though) politicization and subjectivation and most fundmentally, with experience. Rancière is concerned throughout these interview-essays, among other things, with mapping out the relationship between the visible and the sayable and although I know that these ideas are central to his overall argument, I'm confused about what exactly he is doing with them. Hopefully this will become clearer before class...
I guess I'll stop here and revisit this writing when I am clearer about some of this and have more productive/focused questions and useful things to say...
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