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Bourriaud, Pleasance, S., Woods, F., & Copeland, M. (2002). Relational Aesthetics. Presses du Réel.

"These days, communications are plunging human contacts into monitored areas that divide the social bond up into (quite) different products. Artistic activity, for its part strives to achieve modest connections, open up (one or two) obstructed passages, and connect levels of reality kept apart from one another." (2002, p. 8)

"For anything that cannot be marketed will inevitably vanish. Before long, it will not be possible to maintain relationships between people outside these trading areas." (p. 9)

"Art:

1. General term describing a set of objects presented as part of a narrative known as art history. This narrative draws upon the critical genealogy and discusses the issues raised by these objects, by way of three subsets: painting, sculpture, architecture.

2. Nowadays, the word “art” seems to be no more than a semantic leftover of this narrative, whose more accurate definition would read as follows: Art is an activity consisting in producing relationships with the world with the help of signs, forms, actions and objects." (2002, p. 107)