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Space, Site, Intervention Situating Installation Art Erika Suderburg, editor |
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The definitive work on the role of installation art within contemporary culture and society. From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Idéal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms. In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists view installation art as a diverse, multifaceted, and international art form that challenges institutional assumptions and narrow conceptual frameworks. The contributors discuss installation in relation to the genealogy of modern art, community and corporate space, multimedia cyberspace, public and private ritual, the gallery and the museum, public and private patronage, and political action. This ambitious volume focuses on issues of class, sexuality, cultural identity, race, and gender, and highlights a wide range of artists whose work is often marginalized by mainstream art history and criticism. Together, the essays in Space, Site, Intervention investigate how installation resonates within modern culture and society, as well as its ongoing influence on contemporary visual culture. "This wonderful book seeks to expand the definition of site-specific work while dissolving its categories. This is a monster of an undertaking and a treat to read. Space, Site, Intervention is a huge book, which is itself a conceptual and temporal site of exchange. It is so sensitive to the reader, to so many cultural and political issues, that in just looking out the window one can imagine the impact on Native Americans when sighting the first fences on the vast, open prairie as the great land grab began." —Bomb Contributors: C. Ondine Chavoya, John Coleman, Sean Cubitt, Colin Gardner, Chrissie Iles, Bruce Jenkins, Amelia Jones, Miwon Kwon, Ernest Larsen, Tiffany Ana López, Catherine Lord, Kevin McMahon, James Meyer, Alessandra Moctezuma, Leda Ramos, Laurence A. Rickels, Barbara Maria Stafford, Susan Stewart, Marita Sturken, and John C. Welchman. Erika Suderburg is professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor (with Michael Renov) of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996). 352 pages | 91 black-and-white photos | 7 x 10 | 2000 |
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$28.00 Paper