No Man's Time: Material Fantasies

Abstract

A contribution to the book published to accompany the exhibition, theanyspacewhatever, held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 24, 2008 - January 7, 2009. The essay concerns the preparation and staging of the 1991 exhibition, No Man's Time, at the Villa Arson, Nice, in which several of theanyspacewhatever's contributors took part. No Man's Time was one of the key exhibitions in the early 1990s in which the tendency subsequently identified by Nicolas Bourriaud as Relational Aesthetics began to appear. theanyspacewhatever: an exhibition in ten parts examined the legacy and continuation of this tendency in current art practice