Site-Specific Art
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Site-Specific Art

Performance, Place and Documentation

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Site-Specific Art

Performance, Place and Documentation

About this book

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary practice around the world.
The book is divided into individual analyses of the themes of space, materials, site, and frames. These are interspersed by specially commissioned documentary artwork from some of the world's foremost practitioners and artists working today. This interweaving of critique and creativity has never been achieved on this scale before.
Site-Specific Art investigates the relationship of architectural theory to an understanding of contemporary site related art and performance, and rigorously questions how such works can be documented.
The artistic processes involved are demonstrated through entirely new primary articles from:
* Meredith Monk
* Station House Opera
* Brith Gof
* Forced Entertainment.
This volume is an astonishing contribution to debates around experimental cross-arts practice.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781134665945
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Index

absence 6, 9, 32–3, 45, 92, 94–100, 103, 113, 118, 120, 123, 203, 217–18
abstract expressionism 107–8, 115, 152
Acconci, Vito 151, 155–7, 160–3, 190
Blindfold Catching 162
Hand and Mouth 162
Performance Test 155–6
Room Piece 156
Rubbing Piece 160
Service Area 156
Soap and Eyes 162
Trademarks 161
action painting 151
see also Pollock, Jackson
Alloway, Lawrence 94
Andre, Carl 140–1
Anselmo, Giovanni 139, 141–2, 145–8, 150
Senza titolo (untitled) (1965) 145
Senza titolo (untitled) (1966) 145
Senza titolo (untitled) (1980) 146
Senza titolo (untitled) (1984–6) 146
Torsione (Torsion) 145–6
anthropomorphism 35, 148–9, 154
anti-form 28, 139–40, 142, 159
architectural
frame 27
language 34, 36
notation 219
space 167
text 38–9, 43, 45
theory and practice 218–19
architecture 3, 11–12, 25, 27, 34, 41–52, 96–7, 129, 133–4, 163–4, 191, 193, 203
and the body 35–6, 38–9
and event 56, 128, 130, 132
and language 51
as metaphor 53–4, 56
Modernist and post-modern 41–2, 101
and monumentality 34–40
as plac...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Site-Specific Art
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Site-Specifics
  10. Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), Nights In This City: diverse letters and fragments relating to a performance now past
  11. Spaces
  12. Michelangelo Pistoletto, LE STANZE (THE ROOMS)
  13. Site
  14. Clifford McLucas (Brith Gof), Ten Feet and Three Quarters of an Inch of Theatre
  15. Materials
  16. Julian Maynard Smith (Station House Opera), The Breeze Block Performances
  17. Frames
  18. Meredith Monk, Site-Specific Works
  19. Conclusion: Documentation
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index