Forms, encounters, mixtures

Communication, art and contemporary sensibility (a reading by Bourriaud).

Abstract

This article ponders on the contributions made by Nicholas Bourriaud to the construction of a view on the relationships between communication, art, and contemporary social life. The analysis starts reviewing and making a synthesis of some of his main categories: “relational aesthetics”, “post-production”, “the radicant” and “the form / exform”. This author has had an outstanding resonance in the discussion about the art in the beginning of the century, and his ideas are a key contribution to think the transformations of the sensitivity, the expansion of the media culture and the renovation of the of artistic / cultural production forms today. The way in which it relates art / communication / society allows exchanges between communication problems, aesthetic analysis, and social theory, beyond disciplinary barriers.