Encounters Beyond the Gallery: Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Difference

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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. Cover Half-title Endorsements Title page Copyrights information Table of contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Prologue 1 2 3 4 4 Introduction The Global Contemporary Alterglobalization Horizontalization Relational Aesthetics 1 Transversality, Relational Aesthetics and Modes of Writing Transversality as Method Anthropology and the Textual Art History and the Practice of Writing Coevalness and Contemporaneity 2 Rirkrit Tiravanija, Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Alterity Rirkrit Tiravanija and Relational Art Art, Anthropology and the Ethnographic Turn Tiravanija, Thainess and Thai Art Contemporary Art and Fieldwork Faction 1 ‘The Raw and the Cooked in 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 1 Shipibo-Conibo Design Culture – Some Background Environment References 2 A Shipibo-Conibo Dance Song – Sung by Julian Fernandez 3 The Shipibo-Conibo Art Style – a Micro-Tradition Passed down from Mother to Daughter 4 The Shipibo-Conibo Art Style – A Nineteenth- Century Invention? References 5 Shipibo-Conibo Design Therapy – Shamans and Designs 6 The Story of Sankama – Could He Read or Could He Not? 7 Shipibo-Conibo Aesthetic Therapy – Fact or Fiction? Outlook References 4 Making Sense of Shipibo-Conibo Designs The Shipibo-Conibo Design Language Patterned Perceptions Design Therapy The Woman with Painted Lips Cultural Translation’s Double-Coded Third Amazon Aesthetics of Living Relational Aesthetics the Amazon Way Faction 3 Itinerant Thoughts – London, Paris, Peru and Elsewhere (Rikki T is travelling from London to Paris by Eurostar) Deleuze–Guattari Bruno Illius Luis Deleuze–Guattari Rafael Deleuze–Guattari Bruno Illius José Santos 5 Voices: Dossier of Texts on Tamil Threshold Designs 1 Kolam. A Changing Ritual Folk Art of Tamil Nadu 2 Priya Performs Her Morning Duties References 3 Kolams. A Female Art of the Street 4 Kolams in Everyday and in Ritual Contexts 5 Kolams make the Guinness Book of Records From Ritual to Art It’s Science! 6 Making Sense of Tamil Threshold Designs Invisible Design Qualities of Space Queer Primitive Practices Harnessing Forces Social, Animal, Vegetable and Cosmic Faction 4 Itinerant Thoughts – Paris, London, Tamil Nadu and Elsewhere (Rikki T is travelling from Paris to London by Eurostar) Epilogue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Notes Prologue Introduction 1 Transversality, Relational Aesthetics and Modes of Writing 2 Rirkrit Tiravanija, Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Alterity Faction 1 ‘The Raw and the Cooked in 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 Bibliography Index