written by Paul Helliwell
shared by sean on July 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
From metamute.org (July 2007): “In her recent anthology Participation, Claire Bishop targets the suspect utopianism of relational aesthetics – a new model public art for the age of consensus. But, writes Paul Helliwell, her alternative reading of participation, made across a set of historical texts and concerned to preserve the autonomy of art, may have blocked itself with her deployment of the fashionable Jacques Rancière.”
(See: relational aesthetics)