Relational Possibilities...

Hi - this is my first post...

I am currently studying for my MA in Arts in a Social Context and want to express my thoughts about my work in the hope that I might get some feedback good or bad about my ideas. Presently I am musing on relational aesthetics - the aesthetics of human interaction - human behaviours as form that can hold an aesthetic quality. I wanted to start with a definition of the term Interstice and then show some pictures of artists work that interests me. You can see above work by Esther Stocker and Vanessa Beecroft. I have chosen to show you examples of these works becuase I feel they represent the extremities of human interactions - from Esther Stocker's introspective meditations on personal locations in relationship to a chaotic universe to Vanessa Beecroft's stark feminist images that fragment feminist reactions yet to me represent the contradictions of the human condition in the consumer age.

Interstice \in-TUR-stuhs\, noun;plural interstices \in-TUR-stuh-seez; -suhz\:

1. A space between things or parts, especially a space between things closely set; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; an interval.

Everyday I think about my interactions with people, psychological and physiological. What happens between people? I feel curious about the transaction of physical and mental space and where these sensations meet to form reactions/events, sometimes subtle, sometimes strong. I think, "it must be the context, as well as the content" and I try to control my reactions or surpress them because it feels like sometimes people sense my awareness and I can see they are somehow anxious about me, even though they have no reason to be. This is frustrating because I enjoy feeling alive and in touch with people and situations in the present, in the here and now, because there is a freedom in the pure exchanges that result from freeing your mind of agendas and because I want to feel connected to people without experiencing the underlying fear people seem to have of the 'Other', which I think is linked to the competitive ideologies of capitalist society which we let inhibit the possibilities of our personal interactions.