Nicolas Bourriaud

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideologyNicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator. Here he looks to the future of art as a place to tackle the ex

“In ordinary language, 'modernizing' has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. L

Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World is the most recent essay by French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud. The author discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever

Works by legendary artists from the Carmignac Collection. A private collection is an account of an individual’s passion and reveals something of its owner’s personality. Composed of around 250 works b

More than 30 years ago the Norwegian artist Marianne Heske found a large box of papier-mache doll heads at a Paris flea market; she was intrigued by the glamour of early-twentieth-century film stars s

In this encounter between one of the 20th century’s greatest minds and an artist fundamental to the development of modern art, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet’s importance in

In this encounter between one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern art, Michel Foucault explores Edouard

Encouraged by the successes of their co-curated exhibitions Inexpressible (2009), After Hours/ Individual Stories (2010), and You First (2011), artists Dalibor Polivka and Rob Mintz (co-founders of UF

Alongside Philippe Parreno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Bernard Joisten, French artist Pierre Joseph was a crucial protagonist in the 1990s turn towards collaborative artmaking, exhibitions as soc

'I had lived and hunted with these people, accompanied them on their nomadic wanderings and learned their customs and their languages with the result that I understood and believed in them and resented the injustices under which they had suffered for so long at the hands of the white man and other invaders of their territory.' In 1932-33, Yolngu people living in the Caledon Bay area of north-east Arnhem Land were involved in the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three Europeans. A punitive expedition was proposed to 'teach the Aborigines a lesson'. In response, Donald Thomson, a Melbourne-born anthropologist, offered to investigate the causes of the conflict. After seven months of investigation he persuaded the Federal Government to free the three men convicted of the killings and returned with them to their own country, subsequently spending fifteen months documenting the culture of the region. Whilst in Arnhem Land, Thomson, a superb and enthusiastic photographer, made the mos