Since the late 1960S, “site-specific” art has undergone various permutations. While the earlier phases challenged the decontextualized space of the museum, highlighting the experiential and phenomenological nature of the works, more recent developments have attempted to revive the criticality of the practice by calling into question the cooptation of “site-specific” art by market forces and mainstream institutions. In One Place After Another, Miwon Kwon provides us with an overview of these transformations, while working through the ambiguities and contradictions, or the “doubleness,” inherent in “site-specificity.” She also offers a theory of art and site that is applicable to the larger areas of our social, economic and political life.
Artists : John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.