27.3.20 Claire Doherty, Location, location
‘One of the most useful and cogently argued new theorisations of site is Miwon Kwon's One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, in which she traces a genealogy of site-specificity through the 70s and 80s to what James Meyer has termed 'the functional site'. Kwon suggests that as artists and curators have become informed by a broader range of disciplines (including anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, psychology, natural and cultural histories, architecture and urbanism, political theory and philosophy), 'so our understanding of site has shifted from a fixed, physical location to somewhere or something constituted through social, economic, cultural and political processes'. Consequently the term 'site-specific' has been superseded by a range of alternative idioms such as 'context-specific', 'site-oriented', 'site-responsive' and 'socially engaged'.
Doherty, C. (2004) ‘Location Location’, Art Monthly, (281), pp. 7–10. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.bathspa.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aft&AN=505120050&site=eds-live&scope=site (Accessed: 23 October 2019).
‘One of the most useful and cogently argued new theorisations of site is Miwon Kwon's One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, in which she traces a genealogy of site-specificity through the 70s and 80s to what James Meyer has termed 'the functional site'. Kwon suggests that as artists and curators have become informed by a broader range of disciplines (including anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, psychology, natural and cultural histories, architecture and urbanism, political theory and philosophy), 'so our understanding of site has shifted from a fixed, physical location to somewhere or something constituted through social, economic, cultural and political processes'. Consequently the term 'site-specific' has been superseded by a range of alternative idioms such as 'context-specific', 'site-oriented', 'site-responsive' and 'socially engaged'.
Doherty, C. (2004) ‘Location Location’, Art Monthly, (281), pp. 7–10. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.bathspa.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aft&AN=505120050&site=eds-live&scope=site (Accessed: 23 October 2019).