Nicolas Bourriaud to curate 2014 Taipei Biennial

The critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud has been selected as the curator of the Taipei Biennial 2014. The event takes the title The Great Acceleration, with a subtitle Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of Relations. Bourriaud will expand on his theory of relational aesthetics, examining \nhow ‘contemporary art expresses this new contract among human beings, \nanimals, plants, machines, products and objects… [and] highlight the way artists focus on links, chainings, connections and mutations, and how they envision planet Earth as a huge network, where new states of matter and new forms of relations appear, forming a new state of the “ghost dance” between people and objects that Karl Marx has described in the 19th century.’ Bourriaud is the director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (ENSBA) \nsince 2012. Bourriaud is best known amongst his peers for his book \nRelational Aesthetics (1998).