What is relational art and social practice?

Relational Art is simply a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

Social Practice is a term used to describe art that takes people, relationships and the interaction between artist and audience as modes of artistic production.  It is a widening genre of contemporary artistic practice that intersects often with the field of Community Based Arts across the globe.

Both relational art and social practice are directly rooted to the work of social sculpture done by Joseph Beuys in the mid 1960′s .

The BBL is working at the intersection of all these artistic, social and community based practices in the regional context of Omaha Nebraska and Council Bluffs Iowa.