Edited by Claire Doherty, this anthology offers key writings on areas of art practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site-specific, the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in recent situation specific art.
Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen & Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Group Material, Robert Irwin, Emily Jacir, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra’ad, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread and Krzysztof Wodiczko
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Writers include: Arjun Appadurai, Marc Augé, Wim Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières, Hal Foster, Hou Hanru, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu Jie, Doreen Massey, James Meyer,Brian O’Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit Rogoff and Peter Weibel.
Available from the Whitechapel Gallery, please email info@whitechapelgallery.org
ISBN: 10: 0854881735
Price: £14.95
