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Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art | 
 enlarge | Author: Editor,erika Suderburg
Creator: Erika Suderburg
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 081663159X
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.0407
EAN: 9780816631599
ASIN: 081663159X
Publication Date: February 11, 2000
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A Collection of Essays on Site-specific and Installation Art October 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been an artist all my life, and always worked at the scale of smaller, portable art: drawing, a painting, a small sculpture. However, I was always intrigued with the installation art I have seen at museums, even if I did not always understand it...it "felt" intriguing...-wow.. art you could actually walk into and interact with- and wanted to know more...ultimately I wanted to try my hand at it someday. So I bought a couple different books on site-specific and installation art to learn more on how they were done, how artists conceptualized them and came up with their ideas...this was one of those books. So this is really just a step in my self-education as a newbie to such things.
This book is a collection of essays from artists, educators, critics, curators, professors, and other art specialists. The book is pretty much an insider's book writing for other insiders. The tone is quite postmodern, academic and theoretical. Since this book doesn't have the Look-Inside feature, here's a list of the essays:
=Introduction: On Installation and Site Specificity (Erika Suderburg)
1. The Functional Site; or, The Transformation of Site Specificity (James Meyer)
2. One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (Miwon Kwon)
3. "Illiterate Monuments": The Ruin as Dialect or Broken Classic (Barbara Maria Stafford)
4. Fountains and Grottos: Installation and the Neobaroque (Sean Cubitt)
5. Garden Agon (Susan Stewart)
6. Written on the West: How the Land Gained Site (Erika Suderburg)
7. Hidden Economies in Los Angeles: An Emerging Latino Metropolis (Alessandra Moctezuma and Leda Ramos)
8. Landscape(s) of the Mind: Psychic Space and Narrative Specificity (Notes from a Work in Progress) (John Coleman)
9. Ordinary Gestures of Resistance (Ernest Larsen)
10. Internal Exiles: The Interventionist Public and Performance Art of Asco (C. Ondine Chavoya)
11. Scream IV (Laurence A. Rickels)
12. Displacements, Furnishings, Houses, and Museums: Six Motifs and Three terms of Connoisseurship (Kevin McMahon)
13. Public Art and the Spectacle of Money: An Assisted Commentary on Art Rebate/Arte Reembolso (John C. Welchman)
14. Video and Film Space (Chrissie Iles)
15. The Machine in the Museum; or, The Seventh Art in Search of Authorization (Bruce Jenkins)
16. "No Guarantees, They're Wolves": Structure, Movement, and the Dystopic in Diana Thater's _China_ (Colin Gardner)
17. The Space of Electronic Time: The Memory Machines of Jim Campbell (Marita Sturken)
18. The Anthropologist's Shadow: The Closet, the Warehouse, the Lesbian as Artifact (Catherine Lord)
19. Imaging Community: Video in the Installation Work of Pepon Osorio (Tiffany Ana Lopez)
20. The 1970s "Situation" and Recent Installation: Joseph Santarromana's Intersubjective Engagements (Amelia Jones)
For the person new to such subjects, I found Suderburg's "Introduction" (1) to be an excellent contextual piece for the history and theory of this genre; without it, I would not have gotten as much out of this book. As a newbie, I also particularly enjoyed reading about Osorio's work (19), the piece on "Illiterate Monuments" (3), and the essays on video (14) and machine in the museum (15).
If you are an artist or other insider, into the theoretical and aesthetic, if you are an art student in college or an art professional, if you are a patron who likes MOMA and SITE Santa Fe, you can get a lot out of this book. I am still making some connections for myself after reading this book. It deserves a review by someone who works with such art; but as an interested reader, I can say there is meat here for both the novice and the specialist.
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