Modern Connections - Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud (b. 1965) is a French curator, writer, art critic, and author of theoretical essays on contemporary art. Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art at Tate Britain, London, where he curated The Tate Triennial: Altermodern (2009). He co-founded and was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from 1999 to 2006. He founded the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art, of which he was director from 1992 to 2000, and worked as a Parisian correspondent for Flash Art from 1987 to 1995. His writings have been translated into over 15 languages, and his publications include Radicant (Sternberg Press/Merve Verlag, New York/Berlin, 2009), Postproduction (Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002, English edition, Les presses du reel, Dijon, 2004, French edition), Formes de vie. L’art moderne et l’invention de soi (Editions Denoël, Paris, 1999), and Relational Aesthetics(Les presses du réel, 1998, French edition, English edition, 2002).

[@paoladelapena8973]

11 2013 we noticed that there were more robots than human beings online. Human being is a minority online. we are becoming personal data
14:13 object oriented philo
14:28 artist have started dialogue with new forms of life as well as objects
16 Mark Licky(?)
relationship with objects free form the mediation with language. No object can be treates as constructed by another object. You can try empathize with them on a whole other level beyod language.
19 exposing/exhibiting someone to something pierre rig.
27:50 shattering subject object relation
34 4 object categories
40 animism unidirectional, co-activity
41 poetic machinery
reification-living into a object. protopopeya, figure of speech, thing having a voice.
47 animism, transhumanis,, postinternet
42 ola peerson yuka tree
45:17 originality doesn't come from a specific style but from her ability to invent modes of liason? reason? between heterogenous elements.
48 invent original secrets of forms, style not unique iconography but modes of coonections, style is movement they create.
49 orozco
50 anthropocene promiscuity

[@brandiemaddalena8793]

19 Pierre Huyghe (sounds like rig in English) :)

[@joyusachoobarb]

Great talk, does anyone know if a transcript exists for this?

[@mamfw]

We do not do transcripts of our lectures unfortunately!

[@antoniodiavoli]

You find pretty everything in his book “Inclusions” (2021).

[@leetattoo1976]

This is a great talk, thanks for uploading!

[@granttyler2779]

Whos the other artist he's talking about? Mark Leckey and Pierre ??

[@granttyler2779]

nvm. its pierre huyghe if anyone else is wondering

[@cocospiglet]

what is the name of the artist? Mark Rickie?

[@foamblok7636]

Mark Leckey