Miwon Kwon...

A book that I was recommended was 'One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity' written by Miwon Kwon. I've started by reading the introduction, so the following are some notes from what I've found so far:

• 'Which incorporated the physical conditions of a particular location as integral to the production, presentation and reception of art.' With my stain glass work, the environment the image is displayed in is and the light at different times of the day are crucial in the display, experience and interaction with the work. Therefore making the place it is displayed in part of the work; site specific.
• 'To mark a difference from artistic precedents of site specificity whose dominant positivist formulations (the most well known being Richard Serra's) are deemed to have reached a point of aesthetic and political exhaustion.' Try not to do the obvious with it as, in the opinion of Kwon, it is tried and tested.
• '"urban-aesthetic" or "spatial-cultural" discourse, which combines "ideas about art, architecture, and urban design, on the other hand, with theories of the city, social space, and public space, on the other". Kwon's definition 
• 'The definition of site specificity is being reconfigured to imply not the permanence and immobility of work but it's impermanence and transience.' Consider having permanent installation and see how they change? Consider having the same installation that can be transported into other locations or recreated  again and again?
• 'The site can no be as various as a billboard, an artistic genre, a disenfranchised community, an institutional framework, a magazine page, a social cause, or a political debate.' Things to consider.
• 'Meant to equalize the creative authority of artists and architects in the design of public spaces, this mode of site specificity presumed the humanizing influence of art over the inhumanity of urban architecture.' Human existence within urban culture/cities like myself.
• 'Thus, in it's final pages, the book can only conjure the critical capacity of intimacies based on absence, distance, and ruptures of time and space.' What I'm looking at... continue to read more in-depth.

Artists mentioned that use site specificity:

• Michael Asher 
• Daniel Buren
• Hans Haacke
• Meire Laderman 

= 'Seen as challenging the hermeticism of this system, complicating the site of art as not only a physical arena but one constituted through social, economic and political processes' 

• Mark Dion
• Andrea Fraser
• Renee Green
• Christian Phillipp Muller
• Fred Wilson

 = 'More recent site-orientated, project based art. the site of art is again redifined, often extending beyond familiar art contexts to more "public" realms.'