In "Notes on the Brave New World of Relational Aesthetics" published in "Texte zur Kunst" Nr. 59, Walead Beshty, a Los Angeles-based artist and critic picks up the debate around Nicolas Bourriauds "relational esthetics": "The conglomeration of strategies, and artists, that fit under the heading Relational Aesthetics indicate, if only for recent history’s lack of "movements," a pronounced shift in the topography of contemporary art, and the need for a realignment of critical terminology. Despite its amorphous set of conditions and tenets, as they are expressed by Nicolas Bourriaud in his 1997 book of the same title, it separates itself distinctly from early interventionist tactics (i.e. Institutional Critique, Identity Politics, Performance and Installation)." http://www.textezurkunst.de/NR59/NEO-AVANTGARDE-AND-SERVICE-INDUSTRY_2.h...