Relational art

A HIPPIE TERM IT DOESNT EVEN MEAN ANYTHING ITS JUST A NEW 'ISM'.......

Relational art is "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."-Nicholas Bourriaud

The artwork creates a social environment in which people come together to participate in a shared activity. Bourriaud claims "the role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real, whatever scale chosen by the artist."

In Relational Art, the audience is envisaged as a community. Rather than the artwork being an encounter between a viewer and an object, relational art produces intersubjective encounters. Through these encounters, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption.

I am very interested in art that does this...
at the moment i am hating documentation, don't see the point in it its just something 'official' that has to be done as proof/evidence. I don't see the gallery space as being the most effective location for experimenting with relational art in what i want to achieve with it.
Exhibiting in a gallery limits the audience to a privileged few that are interested in art in the first place, or have access to it. The rest of us either do not see it or just see the documentation.
The audience is always a select few and it doesn't have to be.... why not make art just for yourself or your friends??