NICOLAS BOURRIAUD

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

Crossfading

Pitch-control

Rapping/ MCing

Cutting

Playlists

Contents
Bibliography
Curated exhibitions (selection)
External links

Bibliography



★ Nicolas Bourriaud, ''Relational Aesthetics'', 2002, Paris: Presses du réel

★ Nicolas Bourriaud, ''Formes de vie. L’art moderne et l’invention de soi'', 1999, Paris: Editions Denoël

★ Nicolas Bourriaud, ''Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World'', 2000, New York: Lukas & Sternberg

Curated exhibitions (selection)



★ ''Courts Métrages Immobiles'', Venice Biennale, 1990

★ ''Aperto'', Venice Biennale, 1993

★ ''Commerce'', Espace St Nicolas, Paris, 1994

★ ''Traffic'', Capc Bordeaux, 1996

★ ''Joint Ventures'', Basilico Gallery, New York, 1996

★ ''Le Capital'', CRAC Sète, 1999

★ ''Contacts'', Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2000

★ ''Négociations'', CRAC, Sète, 2000

★ ''Touch'', San Francisco Art Institute, 2002

★ ''GNS (Global Navigation System)'', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003

★ ''Playlist'', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004

★ ''Notre Histoire'', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006

External links



From Relational Aesthetics

List of selected curated shows and photo

Talk: Today's Art Practice

"Islets" and Utopia

Object lessons: Nicolas Bourriaud on Pierre Restany
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