니콜라 부리오의 확장된 관계미학적 관점으로 본 현대전시 공간특성

Abstract

(Background and Purpose) A French exhibition planner and critic Nicolas Bourriaud suggested the concept of Relational Aesthetics to explain a new intermediate and participatory art tendency in the 1990s which can’t be explained with old theories. Theories that have focused on human interactions in the advanced capitalist world 30 years ago have expanded their meaning to the ecological environment that is affected by the development of technology and human beings in modern days. The coexisting characteristics of Relational Aesthetics that expands the relation between human beings into the relation including non-human objects have common context in the mutual interaction of contemporary exhibition space that forms communities as an art practice place. This study has the purpose of seeing the modern exhibition space with the expanded viewpoint of Relational Aesthetics and understanding its characteristics through the exploration of the role of arts in social problems. (Method) It extracted the Implicit characteristics of expanded Relational Aesthetics through literature review and preceding research. It also extracts the specialties that appear in contemporary exhibition space through examples that reflect various trends of contemporary exhibitions. Then it extracts the final language of integrated meaning in connection with the meaning of each extracted characteristic language. Then it understands the characteristics of modern exhibition space with the viewpoint of expanded Relational Aesthetics. It proves the adequacy by introducing the extracted characteristics into the selected example analysis and suggests the method of coexisting that connects the changing society into an exhibition space.(Results) The result of this study shows that characteristics of contemporary exhibition space viewed by the perspective of expanded Relational Aesthetics are free exchange, unstable connection and essential coexistence. The extracted characteristics were analyzed to see how the contemporary exhibition space produces the interaction for the purpose of coexistence. It applied transcendence, mixture, abstractness, uniqueness, practice and potentiality and example analysis after using the six relational production characteristics and found that relational interaction expanded the object relation but they were not relatively free in space specifics. It was understood that the privileged status of exhibition space is endowed by the specialty of art and not related to the intention of an artist who plans an art area.(Conclusions) From this viewpoint, it can be understood that the exhibition space has privileged status even if it isn’t completely equal to all things that are discussed in speculative realism which is the background of expanded Relational Aesthetics. But the status and intention targeting ultimate coexistence is an exceptional privilege of art. It is expected the exhibition space for the practice of art becomes a connection point of coexistence of the environment and human beings.