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What matters is the thought INTERVIEW/NICOLAS BOURRIAUD
From relational aesthetics to post production. How did that happen? I continued the research, shifting from the plane of collective sensibility, with relational aesthetics, to that of modes of production, with the essay Postproduction, which aimed to explore how the artists of today have created a kind of culture of use, availing of existing works, real situations taken from life in society, or forms already present in the history. These three elements have created a very different situation, even though, at the same time, Postproduction basically speaks of the same artists. A good artist can be examined from various angles. In Relational Aesthetics I looked at Tiravanija from the angle of collective sensibility, of the mental landscape in which he developed, and later, in Postproduction, I approached him from the way he handles the production of his works. And it’s completely different. It’s a whole other perspective on the artist. Today, what interests me most – and this is the subject of my next book – is the way the individuals, the artists, work their culture, or this set of elements we call culture. What exactly are origins; where we come from, is it that important? The central question of the book is multiculturalism as a model, which for me is void. Multiculturalism is literally something unthinkable,
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