Full Description
Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception, as well as anthropological theory for ways to create connections between seemingly disparate worlds. Embracing a unique and experimental format, the book imagines encounters between the art works and art worlds of Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tamil women, the Shipibo-Conibo of Eastern Peru and a fictional female contemporary artist named Rikki T, in order to rethink normative aesthetic and cultural categories. Its method reflects the message of the book, and embraces a plurality of voices and perspectives to steer critical attention towards the complexity of artistic life beyond the gallery.
Contents
Prologue
Introduction
1 Transversality, Relational Aesthetics and Modes of Writing
2 Rirkrit Tiravanija, Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Alterity
Faction 1 'The Raw, the Cooked and the Common Places' - 'Rikki T' at the Serpentine Gallery, Review by 'Johnny Zucker'
Faction 2 Rikki T and Curator C En Route
3 Voices: Dossier of Texts on Shipibo-Conibo Designs
4 Making Sense of Shipibo-Conibo Designs
Faction 3 Itinerant Thoughts - London, Paris, Peru and Elsewhere
5 Voices: Dossier of Texts on Tamil Threshold Designs
6 Making Sense of Tamil Threshold Designs
Faction 4 Itinerant Thoughts - Paris, London, Tamil Nadu and Elsewhere
Epilogue
