Practice question · True or false
Miwon Kwon distinguishes the site as a physical place, as an institutional frame, and as a discursive field.
Hints
- One of the three is a debate rather than a location.
- The third sense is what allows a work to be specific to an argument.
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True
Why
True, and the third is the one that matters for a student project. A work can be specific to a debate rather than to a building, which means it can travel without loss and can nevertheless be destroyed by being shown in the wrong company.
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