“I like art that allows its audience to exist in the space opened up by it. For me, art is a space of images, objects, and human beings. Relational aesthetics is a way of considering the productive existence of the viewer of art, the space of participation that art can offer.” Interview with Nicolas Bourriaud, who coined the phrase “relational aesthetics” to describe much of the art he encountered in Europe in the early to mid-1990’s.