sentences:  Through these encounters, meaning is elaborated "collectively", rather than in the space of individual consumption.Writer and director Ben Lewis has suggested that relational art is the new "ism", in analogue with "ism"s of earlier periods such as impressionism, expressionism and cubism.In "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics", published in 2004 in "October", Claire Bishop describes the aesthetic of Palais de Tokyo as a "laboratory", the "curatorial modus operandi" of art produced in the 1990s.