Since the 1990s, a distinct and visible
trend in contemporary art has become known as “an
educational turn.
” “Artists are turning to education, borrowing its techniques, social settings,
tools, aims, furniture, characters and so on.
”
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The art of the encounter has become a commonaesthetic practice
–
or even
the “main event”
at contemporary art exhibitions.Nicolas Bourriaud´s theories of relational aesthetics are associated here with this
“
e
ducational turn”
, a trend now seen as critical within the field of contemporary aesthetics.