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Bilateral Blogging – Essay about Bilateral Kellerberrin now available

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An essay I wrote about my blog-as-art project Bilateral Kellerberrin has been published in The International Journal of the Arts in Society. (You can download a pdf here or here.)

To give you a broad idea, the essay is about blogging as a new(ish) form of artmaking, requiring us to think in new(ish) ways about its ethics and aesthetics. It also involves a bit of thinking about some of the ideas in Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics, particularly the idea of micro-utopias and the difference between art that occurs in -vs- out of an art gallery context. I’m following John Dewey’s concerns (from Art as Experience) that art should not compartmentalise itself into special architectural spaces, but try to find ways to co-exist with every day life on its own terms. I claim that blogging (as I used it in Bilateral Kellerberrin) has the capacity to do this.
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some relational aesthetics reading…

These links I compiled for my own reading while preparing a small lecture on relational aesthetics for Barb Bolt's class at Melbourne Uni:

Dan Graham: Video/Architecture/Television: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Hg.), Writ-ings on Video and Video Works 1970–1978, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, New York University Press, New York 1979), S. 62–76.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/46/

Work Ethic by Helen Molesworth
http://www.psupress.org/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteMolesworth.html

some Rirkrit Tiravanija links:
http://www.artnet.com/artist/423879132/Rirkrit_Tiravanija_and_SUPERFLEX.html
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/tiravanija/
http://www.portikus.de/ArchiveA0106.html#
http://www.vnvisualart.com/article.php?story=376&page=1

marc horowitz's errand feasability study:
http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com/errands/errands_main.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/25/WBG4J77C0G1.DTL

relational aesthetics glossary:
http://www.gairspace.org.uk/htm/bourr.htm