Nicolas Bourriaud: Relational Aesthetics

Nicolas Bourriaud: Relational Aesthetics.
"The work may operate like a relational device containing a certain degree of randomness, or a machine provoking and managing individual and group encounters.
Sophie Calle's work, for example, consists largely in describing her meetings with strangers. Whether she is following a passer-by or rummaging through hotel rooms after being employed as a chambemaid, she formalises, after the fact, a biographical experience which leads her to 'collaborate' with the people she meets."