Practice question · Multiple choice
Display conventions operate as an ideological framing rather than mere logistics. What follows from this distinction when an artist decides to place a sculpture directly on the floor without a plinth?
Hints
- What does the presence or absence of a base physically alter for the viewer?
- Does altering display conventions neutralise the gallery space or merely activate a different reading?
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A. The work is forced to share the viewer's phenomenological ground
Why
Floor placement alters relation rather than authorship or neutrality. Stripping a plinth dissolves the pedestal's framing boundary, bringing the object into the viewer's immediate somatic space without escaping institutional ideology.
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More questions on Installation and Display
- Why does O'Doherty argue that the white cube is not the neutral container it presents itself as?
- Which follow from documentation being the form in which most people meet a temporary work?
- Sort each installation practice by how much it fixes in advance.
- Complete the account of display.
- At approximately what height, in centimetres, is the conventional hanging centre line?
- Arrange these installation decisions in the order they should be taken.
- Arrange these stages of bringing a work to an audience in order.