Sensitive Skin: Exploring the Inter-activity of Street Art Through a Reading of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics

By Court Williams.

Published by The International Journal of the Arts in Society

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Sensitive Skin explores the isolation and dislocation experienced in the urban
environment and situates un-commissioned street art located on the city surface as a construct that potentially generates modes of plurality through immediate encounter, collaboration and intervention.

Sensitive Skin explores the inter-activity of street art. This is done through a reading of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics - a theory of art that takes as it’s theoretical horizon the realm of human inter-actions in social spaces. I demonstrate the inter-activity of street art through a discussion of the work of artists who work in a street context.

In doing so, I also draw attention to the virtual characteristics of the anonymous urban environment by locating street art as a virtual representation of the art world, the street artist as an avatar and the city surface as an online blog.

Keywords:	Street Art, Relational Aesthetics, Virtual Reality

International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.139-148. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.783MB).

Court Williams

Masters Researcher, Printmedia, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Court Williams recently completed his Masters in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. He has been consistently interested in the concept of un-commissioned street art as an allegory for how we live in and interact within the modern city. His research questions whether or not street art has come to play a more viable and legitimate role in the broader field of visual practice and examines how it potentially demonstrates the effectiveness of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics - a theory of art that takes as its theoretical anchorage the concept of human interaction in social spaces. His undergraduate research was awarded the University of Sydney Medal.

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