Sculpture I / Methodologies of Creation
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Complete the account of methodology.

The internal logic of an artist's practice, answerable primarily to itself, is their ______. Work whose material is social relations was named relational ______ by Bourriaud in 1998. Bishop replied that the criterion cannot simply be that relations ______. A rule adopted in advance to force unfamiliar solutions is a ______.

Word bank: poetics · aesthetics · occur · constraint · method · series

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  1. The first blank is what makes an artist's works recognisably related.
  2. The third blank is the weakness Bishop identified in the criterion.
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The internal logic of an artist's practice, answerable primarily to itself, is their poetics. Work whose material is social relations was named relational aesthetics by Bourriaud in 1998. Bishop replied that the criterion cannot simply be that relations occur. A rule adopted in advance to force unfamiliar solutions is a constraint.

Why

The third blank is Bishop's argument in one word. Judging such work by the fact that people came together filters out exactly the antagonism and discomfort that genuinely political work involves, so conviviality as a criterion selects against the work it is meant to defend.

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